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‘System Shock’ is Finally Getting a Remake, ‘System Shock 3’ is Being Discussed
It’s happened. The horror genre has hit its stride. Things can’t get much better than this, it can only be downhill from here. In addition to the Resident Evil 2 remake we’re getting in the probably still very distant future, we will also be getting a remake of the original System Shock, as well as a possible System Shock 3.
Let’s start with the one that’s definitely coming. After more than two decades, the original System Shock will be remade by Night Dive Studios, the same team that remastered it back in September.
This news comes from a recent interview with Fast Company, where Night Dive CEO Stephen Kick confirmed they had “acquired the full rights to the franchise” and they’re currently working with the game’s original concept artist, Robert Waters, to reimagine his work.
“Seeing the difference between his artistic abilities back then compared to now, and his ability to reinterpret those ideas, its just been really exciting for us,” said Kick.
Unlike the original, the remake will be coming to consoles. It’s too early to say which ones, but it’s good to know that this almost exclusively PC series will have a wide new audience to tap into.
As for System Shock 3, the studio’s head of business development Larry Kuperman says that while they’re interested in it, such a project “is going to take resources and time and commitment that we don’t have, and it’s really not our core business.” For it to happen, development will likely need to be handled by a third party.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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