Universal, Take Two Making 'Bioshock'

Posted by Stephen Johnson - Friday, May 09, 2008 8:03 AM

Long rumored to be in the works, today it's official: Universal and Take Two are combining forces to bring us a Bioshock movie.

Director Gore Verbinski, (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring) is slated to direct and produce the film. John Logan, writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd, is in talks to write BioShock’s screenplay.

"We are excited that 2K Games' vision for BioShock will be carried forward in a new medium," said Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two. "BioShock has been hailed as one of the most highly cinematic and richly plotted titles in interactive entertainment, making it extremely well-suited to film. In partnering with Universal and Gore Verbinski, we have assembled a team that respects the uniqueness of BioShock and will translate it into a powerful movie experience."

Hmm... two talented, creative people and one incredibly awesome videogame story: Could this be the movie that breaks Hollywood's curse on videogame flicks?

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Posted by Letters2Kay - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:18 AM

Bioshock has such a strong story that they wouldn't have to change or add much to make it work as a film. Let's hope they don't...

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Posted by jacob949494 - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:28 AM

i want it now lol

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Posted by jnights - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:34 AM

I think it would be hard to mess this one up.

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Posted by GameTech - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:45 AM

@jnights

Don't be too sure. They somehow managed to completley mess up Doom and even Silent Hill.

But I REALLY hope this turns out to be a good movie.

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Posted by yoshiarecool - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:57 AM

So far so good. Sweeney todd was brillantly atmospheric and pirates of the carribean was very special effects intensive.
Now comes the hard part. How to make the movie as atmospheric as the game without using FP perspective.
Logan and Verbinski better be ready to get this movie scrutinized by bioshock fans (like myself)down to the last plasmid

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Posted by used2loverhad2killer - Friday, May 9, 2008 9:09 AM

This game was friggin' awesome. A movie would be cool, but I'm hoping for more games like it more than anything.

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Posted by jargy1 - Friday, May 9, 2008 9:19 AM

For once a game has enough story to make a good movie (that's what messed up Doom and Silent Hill was too slow to transfer well and all about atmosphere). That's a good director and a pretty decent writer too. It's entirely possible this might end up being ok. I just hope they keep the CG toned down a bit. If I wanted to see Bioshock totally done with computers, I'd play the game. My biggest fear is that it's going to have pretty much no actual water in it or anything and just be a CG crapfest. But Pirates was a good series that mixed it up fairly well. It'll be interesting to see.

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Posted by Shadow016 - Friday, May 9, 2008 9:41 AM

look at the bright side Uwe Boll isn't directing it

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Posted by TheRufio - Friday, May 9, 2008 9:49 AM

This will be awesome.

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Posted by collinE - Friday, May 9, 2008 10:06 AM

I think the hard part will be fitting into a 2 hour movie

@Shadow016

don't say that. You might hurt sjohnson's feelings.

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Posted by slipperytrick - Friday, May 9, 2008 10:47 AM

I think Uwe Boll not directing isn't the bright side! That man directing is like dog's farting!

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Posted by Hallowethe - Friday, May 9, 2008 11:42 AM

Not bad, not bad at all. Who am I kidding - this is great! Lol, I'll see it, if they don't look like their screwing it up too much (which I think would be hard to do).

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Posted by johhnymayhem - Friday, May 9, 2008 11:44 AM

@GameTech

Doom had a story?

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Posted by HenNaHito - Friday, May 9, 2008 12:07 PM

I think the BEST news about it is that Take Two actually has a hand in the movie. Thats why most of these genre movies fail. Some third party who really hasn't ever even seen the game trying to give their take on it to cash in, ala Uwe Boll.

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Posted by fozzy360 - Friday, May 9, 2008 12:08 PM

Awesome! I hope this doesn't get messed up, but...I have hope!

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Posted by Fx_Avatar - Friday, May 9, 2008 1:22 PM

Oo I see what is going to come from this.. They will somehow make this into a romantic comedy and kill it.. Oo worse!.. Uwe Boll will some how get brought in on this..

Ya, there are many ways to kill this.. but I really hope they just stick to the story of the game.. really.. they have a gem.. don't destroy it..

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Posted by dodgeball_ninja - Friday, May 9, 2008 1:43 PM

When I read that I threw up a little bit.

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Posted by KDollaz - Friday, May 9, 2008 1:44 PM

This one could actually work but it would have to be really written seriously. Bioshock reminds me of House on Haunted Hill "99" remake for some reason but we all know that movie sucked so it has to be way way better then that.

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Posted by highscorefilms - Friday, May 9, 2008 2:40 PM

I think this has some potential. Bioshock's charm was in the atmosphere and thematic material, and they've found great people to adapt that. The plot, at it's core, is very simple: "Kill Andrew Ryan," and the theme of losing your humanity is enough to satisfy the critics.

I'd love to see what they do with this game/movie. It's certainly going to be challenging making the Big Daddies and Little Sisters work well. And what about Atlas? How in the world do you make a movie where one of the main characters is a voice on the other end of a walkie talkie? (The obvious exception being HAL from "2001.")

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Posted by dinohunterx - Friday, May 9, 2008 6:46 PM

I just hope to God that they don't screw this one up. It has a good start, now all we can do is hope.

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Posted by HedgehogEmoness - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:29 PM

AHHHHHHHHHHH so excited! My second fav game and one of my fav directors and writers are working on this! So happy. I can't wait to see Sander Cohen in this movie, that crazy dog!
One question though...In the game you can choose to kill or save the little sisters. How will that translate to the big screen?

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Posted by d00pliss - Friday, May 9, 2008 8:59 PM

ZOMFG! tank ya jeebus! tiz movie is guna be AWWSUM! i hope he harvestz dah lil sisterzz.

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Posted by kryson53 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:11 PM

This movie is going to be Amazing (I hope) Bioshock is definitely 1 of my favorite games and i cant wait for the movie.

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