BioShock movie in development, Gore Verbinski directing

They already made a Bioshock movie, it was on a format only playable via 360 or PC. It wasn't a very good movie though, the watcher had to keep clicking the next button to watch it frame-by-frame. It was quite dull and tiring, and only monkeys watched it all the way through and enjoyed it.

If I buy this sequel will it play itself? I think I was punished enough the first time.

The line-up so far might add up to the most potential a video game movie has had to date.

I wouldn't have picked Gore Verbinski, that's for sure... Looking at his films, I doubt he could deftly pull off something of Bioshock's depth.

However, they could have done a hell of a lot worse.

Tom Hanks as Andrew Ryan. Hands Down.

Wasn't the most powerful part of the story in Bioshock...

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That while the game purported to give you the "free will" to take on your missions anyway you wanted, you were really just a pawn of who ever called you up on the radio? That you had to "kindly" do what they said? That impact was so much greater in a video game beause it had a sort of meta significance: no matter how much freedom we get in games, we ultimately have to do what we are told. You can't make Nico in GTA4 say to a character, "no I won't murder that person". We as gamers have accepted that and when Bioshock turned that into a plot twist that made gamers reflect on that fact it was very powerful. How is a movie going to do that?




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Still, a game with such an original sense of time and place will at least make for some excellent eye candy. Hope it doesn't fail like every other video game movie!

FUCK. YES.



Keep close to the source material and you've got my ticket.

I would mention that having Verbinski's involvement at this point means he is producing, not necessarily directing. Verbinski is not an experienced producer. Bruckheimer produced Pirates, and Bruckheimer has produced a lot of stuff, going back to Top Gun and including and entire evening of shows on CBS at one point. Not every director's first foray into producing turns out well, in fact, it usually doesn't.

Thank god it's now Uwe Boll directing this movie.

Just what we need, one of the most incompetent directors on earth making the Bioshock film. I see another crappy video game on the way.

Guess I'll just play Bioshock again instead of watching this sure to be disaster.

Cool...

Though I think that I would rather take a playable sequel or prequel.

Just don't suck!

excellent, with him behind the wheel it should be a hit.

can't wait!

Please do the right thing and either a) use music from the game or b) get the same composer to write original music for the film.

I could totally see Dakota Fanning and Abigail Breslin as little sisters.

Oh, and John Goodman as big daddy. I'd run.

nice boobies

You mean Uwe Boll isn't doing this one? Finally, a video game movie I'm excited about!

please stop this movie from being made. hollywood is turning everything they can into a movie to make a quick buck. this movie is going to destroy the entire game and any possible franchise that could be made off of it.

I laugh when people say Assassins Creed has better gameplay then Bioshock.

AC was the most repetitive game ever created.

Honestly I think this is a game which easily lends itself to a movie. It was creepy and mysterious and you always wanted to know what was around the next corner. So long as they change NOTHING, it will be great. However, theres is no sense getting your hopes up, as movies such as the Resident Evil trilogy and Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within have already shown the movie industry's amazing ability to take something that could be a brilliant movie and turned into a smoldering hunk of crap. Here's hoping that wont happen here. Cheers.

i wonder what the main character is gonna look like when you only see his arms during the game..

I have faith in Gore Verbinski I think he knows what makes a good movie and what doesn’t. Did you hear they are making a movie out of City Of Ember too! The preview reminded me of Bio-Shock, in fact I thought that was the trailer . But The movie looks like it’s going to be awesome. The set designer for Titanic and Nightmare Before Christmas is doing the sets for the movie, and from what I can from the trailer it looks so creepy/awesome!
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wellll.......

I think pre-1959 new years bombing could function as a movie... if they told the story of fontain's rise to power, ryans subsequent abandonment of his objectivist ideals, and such... you've got plenty of compelling characters and events all laid out the game would function as the sequel (thus choice of ending remains intact). however this would be a political character driven movie rather than an exiting action driven movie. this would drive away most of the gaming audience and the fact that its a game movie would drive away the rest of the movie audience...epic fail

in all likely hood this is going to end up as another disappointing game movie in which vin diesel argues with some ditzy actress over whether to kill a little sister... again epic fail

if anything bioshock shows how useful the video game can be as a medium... to put it in a movie is akin to expressing Mona Lisa through marble.

Guys, I am just glad 2K was smart enough to NOT hand the movie license to that hack Uwe Boll.

Can't wait for the movie.