Scrapped Deus Ex Movie Script Surfaces With One Big Change To Jensen

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out in 2011 on Xbox 360 and PS3 (Sony, please give us backwards compatibility) and told the story of former cop Adam Jensen who transforms into a biomechanical killing machine. In the world of Human Revolution augmentation is nearly commonplace but it causes friction between the 'augs' and the 'pure' humans, especially as the augs are often addicted to a drug that stops their bodies from rejecting the modifications.

Set in a cyberpunk-style future with plenty of action, intrigue, and thrills, Eidos Montreal's Deus Ex: Human Revolution was ripe material for a movie adaptation, and in 2012 film directors Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill were working on a script, as reported by USA Today.

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Alas, Derrickson was pulled away to work on Marvel's Doctor Strange, which he directed, as was his collaborator Cargill. Speaking to USA Today, movie executive Scott Kinnney, who worked with Cargill at the time, expressed his disappointment that the movie project was abandoned. "I'm really, really sad CBS Films fumbled the ball on this project," Kinney said, believing that they would have "knocked Deus Ex out of the park to finally make the first great video game film adaptation".

The collaborators had made good progress on the Deus Ex script and excerpts published in USA Today show the movie would have started with the Albert Einstein quote, "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" before moving on to a montage. To read more, including dialogue, you can head on over to USA Today's report.

A major departure the movie adaptation made from the game is that in the film script Jensen chooses to