I was down looking at the new digital cameras, the RED, and happened to mention to them that I would love to do a 'Dead Space' film. I’m a big video game fan, so I played all the games. When asked if there was any movement on his earlier comments about 'directing a 'Dead Space' movie,' Carpenter had this to say: However, in a more recent interview with Variety, John Carpenter elaborated on rumors of a potential Dead Space movie, shooting down speculation and shattering fans' high hopes in the process. One last rodeo for Kurt and John in the sci-fi/horror realm, please. He said he was in if JC ever got it off the ground. As for if he would return to direct any kind of movie, Carpenter said if the project was “honestly budgeted” and the producers heading the project allow time for him to enjoy basketball season and the playoffs, he’d be open to it.I interviewed Kurt Russell a while back and brought up that Carpenter wanted to make this movie.

It’s just a matter of a studio coming to him and asking. So, at this point, no one has asked him to direct a Dead Space movie, but if someone actually did reach out to him, he might actually do it. So until someone asks me, I wouldn’t do it.” He went on to say, “And they haven’t asked me to do it. He then touched on the project’s existence and said that he thought that “they” have another director attached to the project. That just went around, and everybody said, ‘Oh, when are you gonna do it?’ I’m not gonna do it.” I was down looking at the new digital cameras, the RED, and happened to mention to them that I would love to do a Dead Space film. “I’m a big video game fan, so I played all the games. In a recent interview with Variety, Carpenter was asked about the project and he said that he’s not going to do it: Well, according to Carpenter, there may be a movie in development, but it’s not with him. When Carpenter was previously asked if he was interested in directing a film adaptation of a video game, he mentioned Dead Space and said, “That would make a real great movie. John Carpenterhas said in the past that he would be interested in making a feature film adaptation of the hit sci-fi horror video game franchise Dead Space.

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