John Carpenter, director of horror classics Halloween and The Thing, has voiced his appreciation for the Dead Space series, and mentions how he would love to direct a film based on it.
"You know it's great," he explained. "The first game was more - I guess it was like Alien - but not quite. It was a little different than that.
"I maintain that Dead Space would just make a great movie because you have these people coming onto an abandoned, shut-down space ship and they have to start it up and something's on board. It's just great stuff.
"I would love to make Dead Space [into a film], I'll tell you that right now. That one is ready-made."
Carpenter has been involved with video games in the past and is a proponent of video games being an art form. He goes on to comment on how another game, this time based on a horror/action franchise, didn't work out so well. When commenting on marketing regarding the recent Aliens: Colonial Marines, Carpenter said: "They're trying to get you to buy the game, which I stupidly did."