BioShock movie gets budget cut, 'in a holding pattern'

Yes, come to London, we'll give you a cuppa

...Mr. Bubbles?

Argh... /facepalm

First Britain tries to steal the Super Bowl, then the Bioshock movie. Will their insatiable greed never be quelled?

It makes more sense to make a movie out of the US.. Its cheaper and u don't have to go thru all the permits a state requires.. new zealand should be a great spot also.. just ask Peter Jackson to make this movie..

"Universal are looking at possibly moving the currently in pre-production film to outside the US to "take advantage of a tax credit," allegedly looking at moving production to London from its current Los Angeles locale."

California is the worst state for business according to every research paper, we are ranking 50 out of 50 according to businesses. Our taxes are insane and go up almost every six months, and they talk about them going up even higher soon, and try to pass laws claiming if the taxes don't go up, babies and children will die, and people are stupid enough to keep passing them. I live in California, and sales tax in some areas are above 11%. I heard on the radio that only 5 productions are filming in Los Angeles, when about 5 years ago it was over 50 productions...

Thanks California for ruining just about everything. Perhaps if enough illegal immigrants enter the country, their combined weight will snap the San Andreas faultline and we will sink into the bottom of the ocean, if the Swine Flu doesn't kill us first.

That's enough soapboxing for me...

But hey, at least it will be cheap to film the Bioshock movie in Los Angeles when it sinks to the bottom of the ocean, it could almost be on-location...

Just don't make it shitty and get it fucking done

I don't want to watch this film until I'm assured it's good.
I can never look a Doom or Max Payne again

No offense but I wouldn't care if the sequel got its budget cut too.

The Halo film was not perpetually on again, off again. It was on for a short bit and then has been off. Everything since then has sites like joystiq repeating info from wannabees and fans.

You could ask the company that holds the production rights if the movie has been on and off lately, except there isn't such a company. Which is more testament to the actual state of the Halo movie.

I'm glad. Games should not crossover into movies and vice-versa.

I think the best game to movie adaptation would be Assassins Creed.

"Mr. Bubbles, where's your suit?"

"Andrew Ryan has some new budget cuts."

"So why are you wearing a purple speedo suit?"

Bioshock should have been a movie to begin with; I would have rather watched it than have to suffer through dealing with the mediocre gameplay.

Mr. bubbles is so considerate and generous

This is so weird. I posted a comment exactly like Anticrawl's (even up to using the words mediocre to describe the gameplay) but the commenting system ate it up.

Anyway, the problem with Bioshock (besides the objections that an anarcho-capitalist like myself has with the story, that's a totally different matter) is that as a game, it's just plain mediocre. It's yet another shooter. Not only that, but it's a dumbed down shooter with a limited weapons set. None of the guns are even remotely exciting. I'm not saying that in an "omg lazer beam pew pew pew" way, but most FPSs are able to make something as mundane as a shotgun exciting. Bioshock couldn't. Yes, there are multiple plasmids, but they fall into either the "fun but useless" or "boring but useful" category. The moral choice meant absolutely NOTHING. For a game that kept being billed as having deep moral choices, it was pathetic that the only moral choice they gave you ended up affecting nothing but the end movie, and both endings were pretty bad. Yes, the evil one was a bit cool, but it still didn't feel like you'd really accomplished anything. The enemy variety was pathetic. What were there, only 5 different enemy types or something like that? Only the Big Daddy fights were even remotely interesting, and you ended up doing those so many times in the same way every time that they got old fast. And all the bosses (with the exception of the last boss, which wasn't liked even by the game's hardcore) were just one of these 5 types only with a ton of health. There was very little in the way of set pieces. The only set piece I can remember is the one at the end of the demo, and that's probably only because it occured right near the part where Ryan talked to you for the first time ("Which one of the bitches sent you?") Say what you will about Halo, but every single Halo game has multiple memorable set pieces (and let's not even get started about that perfection which is known as Half-Life 2.) If even Halo, which from the sounds of things on message boards is a game made by knuckledraggers for knuckledraggers, can get set pieces right, why couldn't an "intellectual" game made by "intellectual" people like Bioshock do it?

The story, on the other hand, was top-notch, even though I had objections here and there as mentioned before. Many of the scenes I still remember (TOO SYMMETRIC!!!!!) and to this day, I still have some Andrew Ryan quotes in my e-mail sig. Bioshock would have been an amazing movie. Honestly, it could have even been as big as the Matrix as a semi-deep sci-fi movie. It's a pretty mediocre game, and having a great story does not excuse mediocre gameplay. It is the responsibility of the designer to choose the proper medium that fits the subject matter, and game was the worst possible one for Bioshock. The fact that the game led you by the hand, then laughed at you for being led by the hand, was pathetic. I remember actually trying to not help Atlas early on, because I didn't trust him, and I tryied to find some way to follow another path. But I couldn't. So the game basically insulted me because of its own built-in limitations. Nice job, guys.

We're going to London for a tax cut? Kinda funny since America was founded by leaving England and all of its taxes. My how things have changed...what's happened to our country?