John Carpenter Wants to Make a Dead Space Movie

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In a recent interview, horror legend John Carpenter has, once again, stated that he would love to make a film adaptation of Dead Space, the horror game from Visceral games and EA. Carpenter is a huge fan of the Dead Space franchise and has expressed his interest in adapting the game into a film as far back as 2013.

John Carpenter rose to prominence in 1978 with the release of his independent horror film Halloween, which he directed, scored and co-wrote with Debra Hill. Since then, he has been the mind behind such cult phenomenons as They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, and the paranoid body horror The Thing. Carpenter is also a video game fanatic, having worked as a story consultant on 2011’s F.E.A.R. 3 and voicing the game's narrator, composing the music for 1998'sSentinel Returns and being included in a cameo capacity in the 2002 The Thing prequel Game.

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Speaking with The AV Club, Carpenter dove into his love of video games, claiming that gaming is «a big part of my life. I enjoy it. It’s a lot more fun than directing movies. That’s hard work. That’s stressful. This is relaxing. I’ll play any time I can.» When asked if there would be a game he would turn into a film, he answered «The only one I can think of, and I’ve mentioned it before, is Dead Space. That would make a real great movie. I could do that.» Dead Space, whose body horror creatures the Necromorphs were partially based on the creature from Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, was originally released in 2008 to critical acclaim with some considering it to be one of the greatest horror games of all time.

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