D.J. Caruso Helming ‘Dead Space’ Film

Director D.J. Caruso has been tapped to bring the video game ‘Dead Space’ to cinematic life.   Variety is reporting the ‘Eagle Eye’ director is attached to the project.

Electronic Arts, the company behind the best-selling video game, has been working on producing the film along with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill. They and Caruso have been meeting with screenwriters to see who has the best vision for the film.   Once a screenwriter is set, the consortium of producers will begin auctioning the film off to studios.   With the success of the video game, finding a buyer shouldn’t be an issue.

The story takes place deep in space where an engineer responds to a distress signal.   He soon finds the ship he boards is crawling with all kinds of monstrosities, human corpses that have been brought from the dead from a virus.

While the premise sounds a bit like most other sci-fi/deep space action and horror structures, it will be interesting to see Caruso work with this setting.   He has always brought a slick look to his films, though none of them have been on the level of his first feature, ‘The Salton Sea.’   Caruso also has a lot on his plate with ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ and ‘Y: The Last Man’ in development.

Source: Variety