Back in 2012, movie director Scott Derrickson and his Sinister collaborator C. Robert Cargill were working on the script for a movie adaptation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. If you’re not familiar with the game, it tells the story of Adam Jensen, a former cop-turned security specialist for a biotech firm. He’s injured on duty, to the point where he wouldn’t have survived without life-saving mechanical augmentations. His broken limbs are lopped off, replaced with military-grade chrome and high-tech infiltration tech. He becomes a killing machine.
In this world, augmentations aren’t uncommon. Some, like Jensen, are forced into using them due to health issues. Others carve off parts of themselves and replace them with mechanical pieces as a fashion statement. This creates tension between the ‘augs’ and the ‘pure’ humans. The augs also have to rely on a drug that stops the body from rejecting their implants, often creating addicts in the process.
