Dead Space to be moviefied

The Electronic Arts hit vidgame Dead Space is on course to become a sci-fi/horror film, with "Eagle Eye" helmer D.J. Caruso attached to direct according to Variety.

"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.

EA launched the game in 2008 and is working on the second and third installments.

I've just started playing the game and it is a little spooky.

"Dead Space" becomes the fifth EA title to percolate as a feature property. Aside from the "Dante's Inferno" film that will be produced by Strike Entertainment partners Eric Newman and Marc Abraham, EA is in business with Universal on "Army of Two," with Scott Z. Burns ("The Bourne Ultimatum") scripting and Scott Stuber producing. EA's "The Sims" is being developed by producer John Davis and "Mass Effect" by "Spider-Man" producer Avi Arad.

A Dead Space film sounds good, but it will have to pull out all the stops to distance itself from films like Event Horizon, and possibly Pandorum (judging by the trailers for that one). Would you want to see a Dead Space film? Who should star in it?

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Dante's Inferno - Trailer for the game all the studios want to film is out

The trailer for Electronic Arts, Dante's Inferno has finally come out. I mentioned this back in November 2008 when all the studios were going crazy trying to win the rights to it. Universal Pictures won. Here's the game trailer. Looks nice but nothing that different from other games have played. Still not sure whether it will make a good film or not.

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Dante's Inferno video game rights won by Universal

Universal Pictures came out the winner in a bidding war for an unreleased Electronic Arts videogame that will be called Dante's Inferno by the time it hits the marketplace next year, according to Variety.

The deal -- an option fee against seven-figure purchase price -- ended an auction that pitted four studios against one another.

Both the Dante's Inferno game and movie involve a journey through the depths of hell.

The gamemaker intends to become more closely involved with movie and TV transfers of its games. Making a movie deal well before the game's release will give EA a shot at seeing a movie released closer to the beginning of the game's life cycle.

What do you think of that?
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