Despite being announced earlier this year, film company Lionsgate once again confirmed that they have optioned the rights to do a film based on the video game Dead Island. Word of Lionsgate’s acquisition of the Dead Island film rights was already public knowledge to a degree, but today Lionsgate once again announced their plans to move forward with Dead Island – perhaps to either gather up more interest in the film or show that this won’t become the latest video game film to be stuck in development hell.