Variety has reported that the Electronic Arts video game ‘Dead Space’ is set for adaptation as a scifi/horror film, with D.J. Caruso (’Eagle Eye’) in line to direct.

EA will produce the film with Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey. Caruso, EA, and the producers are seeking prospective screenwriters and are expecting to auction the property to studios in early September.

Read on for a synopsis of the video game.

‘Dead Space’ is set in the 26th century in deep space, where an engineer who responds to a distress signal from a mining ship finds the vessel infested with monstrous creatures called Necromorphs. The creatures are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus.