Movie Make-out

Variety is reporting that Eagle Eye and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso is attached to direct a feature film adaptation of the 2008 sci-fi horror video game Dead Space. Not being a gamer, I didn’t know anything about this, but it’s described as being about “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.”

While Variety logline makes it sound a bit like Event Horizon (or Alien) meets 28 Days Later, but the game trailer (below) reveals something much different, and a bit more gross (but in a cool way). I think Caruso is a solid genre director who hasn’t gotten much in the way of scripts yet, so hopefully this will let him really cut loose. The producers and Caruso are currently looking for screenwriters, so this could be a while off. (Buried in the article is news that Caruso is also developing a Gary Witta drama called Defender for Dreamworks, which I can’t find a thing about.)

I hope they use some Sigur Rós in the film’s soundtrack. Sigur Rós makes everything better.