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When last we heard news of the Bioshock movie, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was directing a huge-budget movie for Universal. Then, Universal got cold feet over the money the epic flick was costing it, and pulled the plug on Verbinski in favor of making a cheaper Bioshock movie in another country. Verbinski was like, "I don't know if I wanna do that..." and it looked like the whole movie was sunk (get it?). But not so fast... Slash Film reports that the movie has found a new director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.
Fresnadillo directed 28 Weeks Later, and that's about all he's directed, as far as U.S. films, so you can't help but regard this as a step down in scale for the Bioshock movie. While 28 Weeks Later is a competent, enjoyable sequel, Verbinski's resume and versatility just blows Fresnadillo out of the water. The guy made The Ring, The Weatherman, and Pirates of the Caribbean -- each of which is a mind-blowing movie in totally unrelated genres. Verbinski is amazing, while Fresnadillo is... let's say "untested."
As for the budget, personally, I don't think size matters. Gore Verbinski could make a great movie with 16 bucks and cam-corder, and you could give Uwe Boll a billion, and he still wouldn't make a good flick. But Universal's general lowering of expectations for the Bioshock movie does not inspire confidence in me, as a member of the audience.
I also don't know if Bioshock would be that great of a movie no matter who made it. The material in the game is perfectly suited to the video game genre, but I don't know it it could make a viable film. Sure, you could create an epic, special effects extravaganza based on the setting and plot, but watching the Little Sisters being either saved or harvested is a far cry from deciding whether to do it yourself... and the entire "Would you kindly?" plot twist only works in a game... Still, it's sad that we probably won't get to see what Verbinski would have made of it.
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TexanShadow
If they want for the movie 2 b a hit, they have 2 put a lot of time and money into it
SilentMerc3nary
This saddens me. Verbinski is awesome, no matter what people say about Pirates 3.
DoubleLeo
Here is to the watering down of a great game. Cheers. Why does there have to be a Bioshock movie? Why does there have to be a Bioshock 2? No matter what anyone does with this great I.P., they cannot undo how great the original Bioshock was and still is.
P.S.- I hope im wrong about Bioshock 2. I would love to immerse myself in Rapture again.
ZyloWolfBane
Way to go universal, you take a game that actually has movie potential unlike Halo,GoW,Street Fighter and you give it to someone whos made one movie and tell him to make a movie out of it.
Good job, hes probably never even heard of it himself.
Socalmic47
I agree about FIDO, a brilliant social commentary of a horror film and great nod to Day of the Dead. Bud was the only reason to watch that awful film.
I'm still not sure why the hell anyone would like the Dawn remake. It was hollow even at the best of times and I don't see how being a reanimated corpse gives you superpowers ala Spiderman. We are talking about the walking dead, rigamortis, damaged limbs, dead tissue that keeps coming at you. Where the hell in any of that do you need sprinting wall climbers?
The original was also a great stab at American consumerism, hence the shopping mall setting. Did you notice that the survivors were surrounded by all the material goods they ever could want and still weren't happy? That the brain-dead masses were still trying to get in?!?
down311
As far as zombie movies go, FIDO is one of the best and most unique in years, it's almost a hilarious homage to Bud from Day of the Dead. I was pissed when Romero made Diary of the Dead, REC owns that movie big time.
Fiddytree
Why does it seem like every video game movie always runs into about 400 different problems before they end up getting made? This is why I never get my hopes up until I see a trailer, and then ultimately the movie comes out and it sucks anyway and my hopes get crushed. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see the Bioshock/Halo/Splinter Cell/Metal Gear movies I've been hearing rumors about for years and years and years but all of this speculation just ends up frustrating me more than anything.
BONERJAM
@BigDogW
Why would he have remade his own movie? I'm a big Romero fan but Land of Dead and Diary of the Dead were far far far worse than the Dawn remake and 28 Weeks.
I still cant post replys. WTF!?!
Syzgu
The Ring and The Weatherman were definitely not mind blowing. Ring was a crappy remake.
Socalmic47
Verbinski is really not that great as a filmmaker. Weatherman was garbage, the 2nd and 3rd Pirate films were void of real story, and The Ring is a remake of a much better made film. So, no loss with Gore ducking out of Bioshock.
The bad news is that 28 Weeks Later was a horrible film, much worse than anything Verbinski has ever, or will have ever, done.
Honestly, movies are a becoming the story telling medium for old people. Video games are showing that a richer story and experience can be had that movies will no longer be able to rival. Bring on Bioshock 2.
BONERJAM
I liked 28 Weeks Later, every other zombie movie that has come out since Dawn(remake) have been terrible.
down311
Would be sweet to have an old school graphic/ atmospheric director on this like Cronenberg. I think Alexandre Aja could really bring out the atmosphere in this, that guy can do amazing stuff with average stories, he would completely rock with Bioshock. Oh well.
Scottydsntknow
it's not like Verbinski is a very good director, look at the last two pirates movies
Shockwave562
yikes, this movie could be doomed from the start. Even with a fantastic director it's hard to get a video game movie at the top of the box office.
It's a shame because it could've been great
TKEmysterio
The first 15 or so minutes of 28 weeks later was incredible. Some of the best "edge of your seat" cinema that's out there. As for the rest of the movie... meh.
Considering that the "Would you kindly?" moment in Bioshock is the video game equivalent of the Kaiser Soze moment in "The Usual Suspects" I could see it working on the cinematic level for newbs. But the majority of people who'll actually see the movie are people already interested in the source material. So I don't see the point of even making a movie when the source material is already cinematic in nature.
down311
28 Weeks later had a really good start but it just kind of went average from there.
MrAdaptability
Bioshock is more qualified for a movie then Halo is...
ratent
Not to say that it can't be done (ie Neill Blomkamp) with a low budget, but 28 weeks later was passable at best.
It helps when a director is excited about the source material, but it sounds like Universal was going around asking "you want this? no? how about you?". Color me no longer excited.
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