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John Carpenter Reiterates His Desire to Helm a ‘Dead Space’ Film Adaptation
It doesn’t take much to see how Dead Space was influenced by John Carpenter‘s The Thing. In fact, it’d be pretty awesome if Carpenter himself directed an adaptation of Dead Space, wouldn’t it? John Carpenter himself once again reiterated that he thinks so.
In an interview with the AV Club, Carpenter briefly discusses his work scoring the upcoming Halloween Ends, but also delves into his other passion in video games. After remarking that he liked the 2002 video game sequel to his film The Thing (as do we), the conversation led to video game-to-film adaptations.
Of course, one of the very next questions was if Carpenter was interested in directing a film adaptation of a video game, to which Carpenter responded with Dead Space. “That would make a real great movie. I could do that.” Asked which entry was his favourite, Carpenter said that “any of them” were good. “I even like the last one, the action one that nobody else liked.”
Carpenter was asked a similar question about Dead Space almost 10 years ago in an interview with Game Informer. Saying at the time, “I would love to make Dead Space [into a movie], I’ll tell you that right now. That one is ready-made.”
Meanwhile, the final film in David Gordon Green‘s sequel trilogy, Halloween Ends, arrives in theatres and on Peacock on October 14th. The upcoming Dead Space remake launches January 27, 2023 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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