Canned Deus Ex Movie Script Changed A Major Aspect Of The Game
Movie executives and scriptwriters have been trying to turn games into movies for decades. The last few years have seen some notable successes--Sonic, Detective Pikachu, Netflix's Castlevania series--but so many others have missed the point. The latest example comes from a newly-leaked script for a Deus Ex movie that never made it to production (via USA Today).
Back in 2012, director Scott Derrickson was hot off of the success of Sinister--apparently the scariest movie ever made--but hadn't yet picked up Doctor Strange responsibilities from Marvel Studios. At that time, he was working on an adaptation of 2011 game Deus Ex: Human Revolution with Sinister collaborator C. Robert Cargill. The movie was ultimately scrapped, but Scott Kinney, development executive for Prime Universe Productions, supplied a 2014 draft of the script to USA Today, along with a few interesting reveals about the process of making the movie.
Perhaps most notable about the script is one particular change to the game's story. In the game, protagonist Adam Jensen wakes up after an explosion with a bunch of experimental cybernetic augmentations in his body. Of course, they give Jensen all kinds of new abilities, but in the world of Deus Ex, enhanced people are treated differently from «pure» people. When asked how he's handling the augmentations, Jensen replies «I never asked for this.»
Much of the script follows the game, but when Jensen wakes up in the hospital after the explosion, he literally asks his boss, David Sarif, to augment him for the purpose of getting revenge.
Later in the movie, though, Jensen is facing off against one of the movie's primary antagonists, Barrett, and just as he slices off Barrett's arm, he says «I never asked for this.»
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