{"id":457238,"date":"2026-02-08T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:51:07","slug":"gore-verbinski-shares-details-on-his-failed-bioshock-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457238\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Verbinski Shares Details on His Failed ‘BioShock’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week,\u00a0Good Luck, Have Fun, Don\u2019t Die<\/a>\u00a0hits theaters, and it\u2019s the first movie from director Gore Verbsinski<\/a> in nearly a decade. Before this, though, he was going to direct a movie adaptation of Irrational Games and 2K\u2019s BioShock\u00a0series, which languished in development hell for years before it died.<\/p>\n

In a recent Reddit AMA<\/a>, Verbinski shed some light on what he\u2019d have done with the film when Universal developed it. He and then-writer John Logan planned to canonize the first game\u2019s two endings, the choices made by players up to that point\u2014or were they really choices at all, hm?\u2014and their consequences. They also planned to \u201cdive deeply into the Oedipal aspect\u201d with the Little Sisters saved or killed by players throughout the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking forward to bringing that to the big screen and really fucking with people\u2019s heads,\u201d said Verbinski, who added that he would\u2019ve \u201cdefinitely kept it hard R.\u201d He also teased the Big Daddies and underwater city of Rapture had \u201cgreat designs [and an] entire underwater demented art-deco aesthetic.\u201d That\u2019s all probably music to the ears of anyone who saw and loved his 2017 film A Cure for Wellness for its ambiiton and visuals, or just like his other movies, which probably makes it sting all the more that it\u2019s no longer happening at a time when audiences are willing (enthusiastic<\/a>, even) to watch directors take creative swings<\/a> in the horror space.<\/p>\n

Netflix is currently making a\u00a0BioShock\u00a0movie<\/a> without Verbinski\u2019s involvement, but he apparently hears about it on a frequent basis. Whatever he\u2019s heard, he doesn\u2019t think non-Universal studios \u201c[are] quite willing to go where I was headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week,\u00a0Good Luck, Have Fun, Don\u2019t Die\u00a0hits theaters, and it\u2019s the first movie from director Gore Verbsinski in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[41167,88,106700,106701,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-457238","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-good-luck-have-fun-dont-die","11":"tag-gore-verbinski","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}