One last rodeo for Kurt and John in the sci-fi/horror realm, please. He said he was in if JC ever got it off the ground. I interviewed Kurt Russell a while back and brought up that Carpenter wanted to make this movie. Now, though, EA is attempting to revive it with a full-fledged remake of the first game, one that’s out in January and in development at Motive Studio. After Dead Space 3’s lacklustre sales, the series went dormant and EA shut down the original development studio, Visceral Games.

The odds of it happening now are arguably more likely than they were nine years ago. He also admitted that he’s such a huge fan of the series, that he even likes Dead Space 3, aka the game many others hated due to it veering more into action territory.Ĭarpenter first posited the idea of working on a Dead Space film back in 2013, in the wake of Dead Space 3’s release. ‘The only one I can think of, and I’ve mentioned it before, is Dead Space,’ he told AV Club when asked if he’s ever thought of adapting a game into a movie.

In a recent interview, Carpenter expressed interest in directing a Dead Space movie, although it doesn’t sound like he’s made any attempt to pitch it to publisher EA. Considering Dead Space’s own undead monsters, the Necromorphs, drew partial inspiration from Carpenter’s The Thing, he would be a perfect choice to bring the series to the big screen.

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