Geek News: D.J. Caruso to direct Dead Space Adaptation

Last week it is announced that Sam Raimi will direct Warcraft, this week director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) is going to make the video game Dead Space into a film. Electronic Arts will produce the film with Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.

This is not the first video game property from any of the people involved. Bowen and Godfrey are also producing a live action film of the Microsoft and Epic Games property Gears of War with Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0 for the Australians), Underworld 1 & 2) attached to direct. D.J. Caruso is also developing a film based on Defender with Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci (do these guys ever sleep!) producing.

Dead Space is set in the 26th century in deep space, where an engineer who responds to a distress signal from a mining ship finds the vessel infested with monstrous creatures called Necromorphs. The creatures are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus.

I was given the game Dead Space for my birthday and haven’t played it yet, this news has just put a rocket under my ass to start playing the game.

What is the general feeling out there on all this news of video game adaptations? Should we leave the properties alone or do you you think that good films are waiting to be made? Has a really good film come from a video game yet? Let us know.

Read the full story from Variety here.