Is Pedro Pascal making a Dead Space TV show?

Pedro Pascal has already brought one of the most iconic video games of all time to life with HBO’s The Last of Us – so, is a live-action Dead Space TV show up next?

Times have changed. Video game movies and shows were once destined to be flops, but Hollywood seems to have figured them out. The Super Mario Bros Movie is one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 became the most successful film in the franchise, and A Minecraft Movie is destined to break the billion-dollar barrier.

Pascal is (or was) at the helm of one of the best adaptations: The Last of Us, which is currently on its second acclaimed season (if you don’t believe me, read my review of Season 2).

Beyond that, he’s due to appear in Fantastic Four and The Mandalorian and Grogu. Now, a post on social media claims he’s making a Dead Space show, but is it true?

The truth behind Pedro Pascal’s alleged Dead Space TV show

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Pedro Pascal is not making a live-action Dead Space TV show, nor is any such project in active development.

Sadly, you’ve been duped by a fake post by YODA BBY ABY, which regularly shares made-up movie posters.

“This September, brace yourself for Dead Space, a chilling 6-episode series on MAX streaming, starring Pedro Pascal as a lone engineer trapped aboard the haunted USG Ishimura, where the dead rise as horrifying Necromorphs,” the Facebook page wrote.

“Directed by horror maestro James Wan, each episode plunges you into a nightmarish abyss of blood-soaked corridors and mind-shattering terror, as the Marker’s curse threatens to consume all of humanity. Dare to watch as survival becomes a gruesome fight against the darkness – streaming this fall!”

It’s a total lie, so if you allowed yourself to get excited for it (and maybe you even tagged your friend to tell them the fake news), you know who’s to blame.

John Carpenter once expressed interest in directing a Dead Space movie, but there hasn’t been any movement on that. “No, no, no. I can’t believe how that spread,” the filmmaker told Variety in 2023, 10 years after his initial quote went viral.

“I’m a big video game fan, so I played all the games. 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.

“That just went around, and everybody said, ‘Oh, when are you gonna do it?’ I’m not gonna do it. I think they already have another director involved. And they haven’t asked me to do it.

“So until someone asks me, I wouldn’t do it. But there’s a new version of the Dead Space video game coming out in January, and I’m there.”

If you’re up to date with The Last of Us, don’t worry: Pedro Pascal isn’t leaving. Find out when the next episode drops and keep up with the year’s biggest releases with our 2025 TV show calendar.