Legendary horror director, John Carpenter, is also an avid gamer, for those of you who didn’t know. And with the influx of games being adapted into film, horror franchises like Dead Space are a good target for that kind of thing.
Carpenter even singled out Dead Space as the franchise he believes could work for this purpose in a previous interview, however what he probably didn’t intend to do was hint that a Dead Space film is in fact in the works, and it already has a director behind it.
“I’m a big video game fan, so I played all the games. I was down looking at the new digital cameras, the RED, and happened to mention to them that I would love to do a Dead Space film. That just went around, and everybody said ‘Oh when are you gonna do it?'” he said in an interview with Variety.
“I’m not gonna do it.” he continued, “I think they already have another director involved. And they haven’t asked me to do it. So until someone asks me, I wouldn’t do it.
But there’s a new version of the Dead Space video game coming out in January, and I’m there.”
Cool as it would be to see John Carpenter take the reins of a Dead Space film, it is at least intriguing to know that one is in the works at all.
It’s the exact kind of game that could make an excellent horror film, if adapted correctly.
In other adaptation news, HBO’s The Last Of Us is just days away from premiering at time of writing, and could potentially be the best video game to tv show/film adaptation we’ve seen yet.
Source – [Variety via Shinobi602]