James Wan’s ‘Dead Space’ Adaptation Reportedly Reimagined as an Animated Movie

In 2013, John Carpenter shared his interest in turning the popular game Dead Space into a movie. EA, the game’s publisher, also mentioned plans to create a film series based on the franchise. For nearly 10 years, there was no news, until Carpenter revealed that the movie was in development—but with a different director.

That director was rumored to be James Wan, known for Aquaman and his work on the game’s trailer in 2008. Recent rumors now suggest that the planned live-action movie has been reworked into an animated film instead.

The rumors come from Daniel Richtman via his paid newsletter, but no official sources have confirmed them yet.

Dead Space is a sci-fi horror series created by Glen Schofield, developed by Visceral Games, and published by EA. The story unfolds across games, movies, comics, and novels, following engineer Isaac Clarke in the 26th century as he fights undead monsters created by the alien Marker. The cult Unitology wants to use the Marker to cause “Convergence,” which would destroy humanity.

The franchise already has two animated movies. Dead Space: Downfall (2008) is a prequel showing the Necromorph outbreak on the USG Ishimura, and Dead Space: Aftermath (2011) is a sequel about EarthGov experimenting on people with Marker fragments.

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