Deadline is reporting that Sinister director Scott Derrickson has signed on to direct a live-action film based on the Deus Ex video game franchise. CBS Films has also tasked Derrickson along with his Sinister co-writer Robert Cargill to put a script together. The setting is the near future, when dramatic advances in human augmentation have triggered a technological renaissance. The protagonist, an ex-SWAT security specialist named Adam Jensen, must embrace mechanical augments in order to unravel a global conspiracy.
