“Dead Space” is becoming a fantasy horror

According to Variety, DJ Caruso, director of Disturbia and Eagle Eye (and currently reported to be working on Y: The Last Man) has signed on to direct a movie of the EA sci-fi zombie horror videogame Dead Space.

A third person shooter Dead Space was released in 2008. Since then, the game has gained a lot of fans, so the two are prepared to continue.  Developers inspired movies “Stranger”, “Through the horizon”, “Something” and games like “Sailent Hill” and “Resident Evil”.

The main character Isaac Clarke – an engineer company to manage its giant drill stations throughout the galaxy. Concordance Extraction Corporation receives a distress signal from the ship “Ishimura”, which allegedly took place equipment. Ishimura is actually the station for processing “dead planets” and extract valuable ore for the company.  Clarke in a team repairing the ship arrives at Ishimura, but it turns out that the station is infected with an unknown alien life form.

But the game is much more like Paul WS Anderson’s Event Horizon, with the artefact triggering violent hysteria among the ship’s crew, and the player piecing this back-story together through the discovery of ship logs and audio recordings.

An animated prequel to the game, Dead Space: Downfall, was released to DVD last year. A game sequel, Dead Space: Extraction, is in development.

Dead Space will be the fourth film shot on the game from EA. In particular, “Spiderman” producer, Avi Arad is working on Mass Effect, and The Sims develops John Davis.  Caruso is now busy drafting Defenders for studio DreamWorks, and somewhere on the horizon of his looming screen comics “Y”.