While recent videogame-to-Hollywood crossovers have been less than impressive (read: Doom, Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark), the gaming industry’s significant financial potential means moviemakers are far from finished attempting to draw associated profits through the silver screen.
The big screen beckons for Isaac Clarke. Image: EA:
Therefore it’s no real surprise to learn that Electronic Arts’ recent survival horror epic Dead Space is the next videogame set to receive a creative kicking courtesy of poor casting, laughable narrative, and an incompetent director unfamiliar with the source material.
Our obvious cynicism aside, we’re happy to report that Herr Uwe Boll is thankfully not connected with the movie, which has been picked up by Temple Hill productions and is to be helmed by DJ Caruso (director of Eagle Eye, Disturbia and several episodes of TV show The Shield).
According to a Variety report announcing the science fiction production, Dead Space is just one of five different Electronic Arts videogame properties picked up for big-screen development; the others being Army of Two, Dante’s Inferno, Mass Effect and The Sims.
Variety also offered that Electronic Arts is set to build on the popularity of Dead Space by working to create a second and third videogame instalment for the series. It remains to be seen whether upcoming Nintendo Wii exclusive Dead Space: Extraction will account for one of those aforementioned productions.
It’s also worth noting that Temple Hill is also in the process of developing a movie adaptation of Epic Games’ hugely popular Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War.
Other videogame titles presently making being pressed through the Hollywood grinder include Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia, Namco’s Tekken and Human Entertainment’s classic Clock Tower.
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