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Dead Space: John Carpenter keen on movie adaptation

News by Brenna Hillier Contributor

Published on May 9, 2013

John Caprenter, famed director of such cult classics as The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, and Vampires, has said Dead Space is "ready-made" for a Hollywood adaptation.

"It's great," Carpenter said of Dead Space in the latest issue of GameInformer, as harvested by Videogamer.

"The first game was more - I guess it was like Alien - but not quite. It was a little different than that. I maintain that Dead Space would just make a great movie because you have these people coming onto an abandoned, shut-down space ship and they have to start it up and something's on board. It's just great stuff.

"I would love to make Dead Space [into a film], I'll tell you that right now. That one is ready-made."

As an interesting aside, Carpenter said he'd purchased Aliens: Colonial Marines and was quite disappointed in it.

EA hasn't made any noise about a Dead Space film, although it's shopped other properties around, including Need for Speed.

Thanks, Destructoid.