Warren Ellis is amazing. I swear, the man must not sleep a wink at night. Not only is he currently writing at least eight different comic book series, the direct-to-DVD anime adaptation of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and several other projects, now he's given us word that he's responsible in some capacity for the story in Dead Space.
It seems that Ellis had considerable involvement in the early stages of the game, stating in a newsletter that he, "wrote a bunch of the groundwork, backstory and structure." He does also state, however, that there was at least one other writer involved in the project, so it remains to be seen how much of his influence made it into the final product.
I must have read Transmetropolitan at least fifty times and I'm a huge fan of his current Doktor Sleepless series. As a result, this news has elevated Dead Space from being a game that had me mildly excited to downright frothing at the mouth for. October can't come quickly enough for me, how about you?
[Via Shacknews -- Thanks, Jonathan!]
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6:02 PM on 08.07.2008
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Warren Ellis is probably at least three people. There's no other explanation for the sheer volume and consistency of work he does. You know he does a weekly webcomic as well? http://www.freakangels.com
This game was high on my list when the big selling point was a holographic Inventory screen.
Protomark: Freakangels is fucking awesome.
Yeah, I don't think there's anything happening with that. You guys should check in to it.
"And that’s two of my graphic novels that have attached screenwriters in two weeks. That’s a weird thing to think about. Within the same two-week period in which I turned in my final draft of the CASTLEVANIA; DRACULA’S CURSE screenplay myself. "
but for all you comic lovers: read THE SWORD by the LUNA BROTHERS. i have all their origional works and the sword is my favorite. read that shit
Ben Templesmith who illustrated Fell is the guy that's doing the artwork for the Dead Space tie-in comic.
Reassuring to see that's it's not a developer writing the plot, it's an actual author with a sci-fi background.