Yesterday, we took a look at the many big blockbusters already earmarked for 2015, and two of them were videogame properties heading to the big screen. There are high hopes for both Duncan Jones' Warcraft movie, and the movie take on Assassin's Creed, and they lead a sizeable charge of videogame-inspired films.
As it turns out, there might be another one on the way too. Electronic Arts' Dead Space franchise has been linked with the movies before, and at one stage, D J Caruso was linked with the director's chair. But it seemed to peter out in the midst of development hell. No longer, however.
After the project ended up in limbo - along with several other movies that the firm was pursuing - EA has started investing in developing the projects itself, with a view of then shopping them to a distributor. That's what it did with Need For Speed, and with Dead Space, it's had Philip Gelatt (Europa Report) on the latest draft, and EA will now take his script and bring in another writer to help develop it.
There's still some way to go here, but with Need For Speed's production now complete, there's clearly a feeling within EA that it's finally got movie adaptations of its games up and running. Don't be surprised if Dead Space is next.
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