Bioshock

Gore Verbinski Says BIOSHOCK Movie Still Happening; Will Be a Hard R-Rated Movie

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: July 5th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) still has his tickets booked for Rapture.  Although he’ll now be taking the trip as a producer, Verbinski told IGN that an adaptation of the popular videogame BioShock is still in the works with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) at the helm.  The project was put into stasis last year after Universal balked at the $160 million budget, Verbinski focused on his upcoming animated film Rango, and Fresnadillo turned his attention to thriller Intruders starring Clive Owen.  However, Verbinski and Fresnadillo haven’t forgotten the project and the question boils down to getting enough money in spite of making a hard-R flick.  Hit the jump for what Verbinski had to say about the project.

Jerry Bruckheimer wants a SHATTERED UNION

by David Corbin    Posted: October 27th, 2009 at 8:19 am

It’s been a few months since we’ve broken a Jerry Bruckheimer producing story. No need to worry, he’s back and this time he’s setting his sites on a civil war epic. Bruckheimer has acquired the rights to “Shattered Union,” a video game published by 2K Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive, which is also try to get “Bioshock” made at Universal. In the game, Washington D.C. is destroyed by a nuclear blast and, predictably, things get a little “Mad Max.” What, you were expecting “Gettysburg 3?” Hit the jump for more details.

28 Weeks Later Director to enter Rapture in BIOSHOCK

by Jeffrey Van Camp    Posted: August 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Unlike “Halo”, it seems “Bioshock” may get its movie before the actual rapture. Universal is in talks with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct the big screen adaptation of the videogame franchise. With two sequels in development, “Bioshock” was hailed by many publications as 2007s Game of the Year with sales approaching 4 million units (a kingly sum in the game world) one of the biggest emerging videogame franchises of the last five years. Fresnadillo, a Spanish director best known for “28 Weeks Later” here in the states, will take over for Gore Verbinski, who is still a producer on the project. More about the troubled production after the jump.

Gore Verbinski May Not Go Under the Sea with BIOSHOCK

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 1st, 2009 at 9:16 pm

In a recent interview with the LA Times, said that not only is he more interested in producing videogames rather than adapting them into a movie, but it looks like the budget problem in shooting his planned adaptation of the videogame “Bioshock” may have tanked it.  He says that it could probably get made, if it is shot in one of those foreign countries that offer a generous tax credit. And he’s not sure whether he wants to go overseas for the year-plus it would require to make it.  So what, the “Pirates” movies were made in his backyard swimming pool?  Does he think there’s an underwater city somewhere beneath the West Coast?

I understand that we’re in a recession and that the production Verbinski planned is not the one that’s happening but if he’s willing to let that stop his involvement, then I wonder how committed he was in the first place.  I’m not saying he should be eating, sleeping, and drinking “Bioshock” (it tastes like genetic splicing, for those wondering) and I understand that you’re not as personally attached to something you didn’t create from scratch.  But if he’s getting cold feet now, then it’s probably best to either put the project in stasis until the recession passes or until Universal finds a director who can make the project work under these current budget restraints.  I think “Bioshock” has the potential to be the first genuinely good videogame movie because it’s one of the few videogames with a real story in addition to its unforgettable aesthetic.  Hopefully, we’ll still be able to get our precious big-screen ADAM in the near future.

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