According to IGN, the script for the game adaptation film “Deus Ex: Human Revolution”, which was started in the early 2010s but was eventually cancelled, has recently been exposed, which introduces some of the original settings and elements of the film.
In the early 2010s, director Scott Derrickson and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill were already working on a live-action “Deus Ex: Human Revolution”.
In an interview with IGN in 2014, they said that the film will focus on deepening the character of “Adam Jensen” and maintain “all the action and fun” of the game.
In the original plot design, security expert Jensen underwent a mechanized transformation after a fatal accident, and thus became a killing machine.
The plot will be designed around the estrangement and gulf between the wealthy upper class and the lower class of ordinary people.
But the film was canceled after director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill jumped ship to work on “Doctor Strange”.
IGN excerpted a script that shows the protagonist Jensen waking up to find himself mechanized.
It is reported that although there are many scenes of “hand tearing human body mechanical transformation parts” in the script, the main creative team still has no intention of turning this film into an R-rated film for release.
Excerpts from the script:
“INT. Cleanroom – time unknown
Jensen, eyes closed, lay on a bed with the sheets [sic] covering his body. He looks normal except for a hexagon carved into the left side of his forehead and two metal crescents on either side of his eyes.
Jensen’s eyes snapped open. He sat up quickly, confused and lost. As he did so, the sheets fell off, exposing his legs and torso. He looks like a ‘human’: his chest and arms are covered in titanium-infused sheets grafted onto his natural skin, his arms are fully electronically controlled, as are his hands – black and shiny .
He looks around, and when he does, his world is a sensory overloaded world—colors too bright, sounds too loud, like a perverted echo chamber in his head.
Jensen has an electronically enhanced viewpoint.
He was in a large laboratory full of medical and scientific machines, with no signs of life. Meghan’s necklace is on a small table, and everything is in Ultra HD – no shadows can hide you. He blinks and a tactical grid emerges on his POV. The microprocessor recorded everything he saw as each item was identified as a possible weapon and/or threat. All this in less time than the blink of an eye.
Jensen stands up suddenly (naked). Looking from the back, we notice that his spine has been replaced by an alloy frame that connects to all limbs, with the lower half of each leg studded with various electronic tech nodes. “
