It was in 2008 that we first learned\u00a0of Universal Pictures’s plans for a BioShock movie.\u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lone Ranger director\u00a0Gore Verbinski was enlisted\u00a0to helm the\u00a0big-screen adaptation, but it never got close to starting shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
John Logan (Skyfall) penned the screenplay for what\u00a0Verbinski envisoned as a $200 million R-rated movie. Spending that much on a non-PG-13 blockbuster was unheard of at the time, and after\u00a0Watchmen underperformed,\u00a0Universal\u00a0requested that the filmmaker slash the budget to a far more reasonable $80 million.<\/p>\n
Creative differences followed, and he stepped out of the director’s chair. While\u00a0the mantle was briefly passed to\u00a0Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later), the\u00a0plug was ultimately pulled on the project in 2010.<\/p>\n
We’ve had\u00a0sporadic updates since then, and\u00a0The Hunger Games and The Long Walk director Francis Lawrence is now attached to direct a BioShock feature for Netflix.<\/p>\n
During a recent\u00a0Reddit AMA<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die\u00a0(via FearHQ.com<\/a>),\u00a0Verbinski reflected on what might have been with his take on the beloved video game property.<\/p>\n “I loved this project when we were getting close to making it at Universal,” he wrote.\u00a0“I was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect and definitely keep it hard R with the Little Sisters, and the ‘choices’\u00a0the protagonist makes…and the consequences. I had worked out a way with writer John Logan to have both endings and I was looking forward to bringing that to the big screen and really f***ing with people\u2019s heads.”<\/p>\n “Had some great designs for the Big Daddies and the entire underwater demented art-deco aesthetic,” Verbinski added.\u00a0“Every year I hear something about the project, but I\u2019m not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed.”<\/p>\n BioShock is a shooter unlike any you’ve ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You will have a complete arsenal at your disposal, from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you will also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.\u00a0<\/p>\n The game follows Jack, who discovers the underwater city of Rapture, built by business magnate Andrew Ryan as\u00a0an isolated utopia. The discovery of ADAM, a genetic material which grants superhuman powers, initiated the city’s turbulent decline, and while attempting\u00a0to escape Rapture, players have to fight its mutated and mechanical denizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last year,\u00a0producer Roy Lee said, “Netflix wants us to keep everything under wraps. But it’s definitely going to be based on the first ‘BioShock’ game.”\u00a0<\/p>\n A few months before that, Lawrence had explained, “It’s a tricky adaptation, so there’s lots of things to figure out and to get right. There’s regime changes at Netflix, and so things stall out and get re-energized and stall out and get re-energized, and I think we’re in a pretty good place, honestly.”<\/p>\n Keep checking back here for updates on BioShock as we have them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was in 2008 that we first learned\u00a0of Universal Pictures’s plans for a BioShock movie.\u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22944,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-416989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bioshock","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}