Bioshock Movie Announced -- Gore Verbinski directing!!

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Universal Pictures has inked a deal with Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski to direct and produce a film version of Bioshock, last year's hit video game that sold more than 2 million units worldwide. John Logan (The Aviator) is in talks to write the screenplay.
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If anyone can do it, Gore can. This should be a particularly brilliant piece of work, though I wonder how it will translate when the main character is viewed in third person. Should be interesting either way. Looking forward to this one.
 
He'd better not **** it up like Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.

If he manages to pull off a Curse of the Black Pearl then I'll be happy.
 
My jaw dropped. I did not expect this at all. Regardless oh how the actual film is I am sure it will be aesthetically appealing.
 
Holy mackerel! This is actually amazing.

Too many good things are happening to me...

F***, I'm going to die.
 
Wow, wasn't expecting this to actually happen. I wonder how it will be written, so much of BioShock's story is told though the audio recordings of past events. I'd love it if they spent the first half, or whatever, of the movie showing those events and then having the plane crash, etc. On the other hand flashbacks could work pretty well too.
 
Wouldn't it be better not to see the plane crash at all? They should make it an entirely separate story set in the same world, otherwise narrative conflicts are bound to arise. I personally would love to see Andrew ruin's rise to the top, then Rapture's fall into ruin. Maybe Jack's birth at the end would be a nice way to tie it all up.
 
The lead up to New Year's, with that as the finale.
 
Gore Verbinski? Eh...

I would've preffered if it was directed by Alex Proyas the guy that directed Dark City.
Anyway, I liked Pirates of the Caribbean so this might turn out good.
 
In terms of directing, I think Gore Verbinski's is quite capable judging from The Ring and POTC. I'd love to see something similar to this with Fincher on helm.
 
Amazing!
Totally unexpected for me, and I did like At World's End.
What's so wrong with it? D:
 
Hmm, well actually I think a movie would be much better than the game. The game had a great setting and backstory, but the game play was lacking, in my opinion. If they pull it off right, the game's setting would make a great movie.
 
Eejit said:
The lead up to New Year's, with that as the finale.
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No, no no. The movie would be much better starting with the plane crash. There's a reason the game started with one. With that, you have a link to the real world. People will be much more willing to believe the plot and the setting if it begins with something familiar. The movie should start with the plane crash and a royally confused main character stumbling through Rapture and revealing details about the past in the disheveled charachters he meets.
 
Starting with the New Year's masquerade ball could be a good idea. A party would surely be a familar setting, theotherguy?
 
riomhaire said:
Starting with the New Year's masquerade ball could be a good idea. A party would surely be a familar setting, theotherguy?
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True. I'm not familiar with the game's story. But it could work to start with that, you see whatever the disaster is occur, and then it flash forwards to the guy in the plane.
 
This film could be helmed by much worse.

Could be good, could be bad. Depends if they take the commercial route or not.
 
Remus said:
Gore Verbinski? Eh...

I would've preffered if it was directed by Alex Proyas the guy that directed Dark City.
Anyway, I liked Pirates of the Caribbean so this might turn out good.
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Good suggestion. As someone stated before Fincher instantly popped in my head.

There is at least one positive to this situation and that is the lack of Michael Bay and/or Uwe Boll.

Otherwise I have my doubts with video game movies. I just don't feel like the studios are ready to go the full sail with them, they still feel gimmicky. We need a serious director and writing staff to treat it with out disdain. :hmph:
 
This could have the greatest "I am your father" moment in a while.

Could.

As in perhaps.
 
theotherguy said:
No, no no. The movie would be much better starting with the plane crash. There's a reason the game started with one. With that, you have a link to the real world. People will be much more willing to believe the plot and the setting if it begins with something familiar. The movie should start with the plane crash and a royally confused main character stumbling through Rapture and revealing details about the past in the disheveled charachters he meets.
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You know all people in Rapture, with the exception of the little ones, were born out in the real world. There's thousands of opportunities for links. If Jack were the main character, it would conflict with every single thing we did in the game, unless they recreated the game scene by scene, which would suck balls. Following a different character, and seeing people such as Ryan, Fontaine and Tennenbaum in different scenarios would be far more rewarding for the new audience and the fans. Remember in the game we barely actually interacted with other characters directly, unless we were killing them.
 
I think a prequil showing the fall of Rapture would be a much better idea than following Jack.
 
Shouldn't Ken Levine be having a fit right about now?
 
Remember Davy Jones crew from the PotC films? I have high hopes for the Splicers look in the film. :D

Cool news, can't wait.
 
I'm also hoping that they do more of a riff on the ideas of Bioshock....the game itself was very much a "game" kind of experience, with the interactivity even figuring into the plot. Verbinski and co. will hopefully have the license and the guts to play with it so it works better as a movie.
 
At one point David Fincher was in talks to direct Batman Begins. How ****ing good would that be.
 
This could work much better than a Halo movie ever could.
 
Iliketobenaked said:
That depends Halo could be a straight action flick while Bioschock could many things horror,action or thiller.
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I would enjoy a Halo movie only if it was shot as a galaxy spanning epic. The setting was the best aspect of Halo.

A Bioshock movie would probably just be a shitty remake of Deep Blue Sea or something (meh). Without the slow exposition of the game, the story has nothing worthwhile.
 
Iliketobenaked said:
That depends Halo could be a straight action flick while Bioschock could many things horror,action or thiller.
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Or it could be all three. And that's what gives it far more potential.

Halo never really seemed to be about the storyline when I played it, although I always knew it was there. Bioshock, on the other hand, absorbed me into the story and the gameplay. I really found it interesting. Halo was far more about the shooting and the aliens and the killing, but Bioshock was a lot more. Even the weaponry you were supplied gave their own story.
 
Ah yes, gentlemen, wot, wot, how are you!

I am going to flaunt my Hollywood connections in front of you, if you don't mind.

My friend's father is good pals with Gore Verbinski, and my friend (let us call him 'Max', as that is his name) got to speak with Messr. Verbinski over the weekend.

1. Verbinski has played the game and seems quite committed to the project. He has not just been handed this script about some video game that he's never heard of and asked to film.

2. He stated that the primary issue is fleshing out Jack, the protagonist, who is a blank slate more or less in terms of personality (although he does have a quite interesting background, as all of you who've played BioShock know).

3. Jack is going to be the 'good' guy, as in, freeing the Little Sisters instead of murdering them. Messr. Verbinski has hazily stated a vague idea that is not set in stone about a second character, not in the original game, who will follow the 'evil' path and serve as a foil to Jack. Again, this is just a rough idea that may be dropped.

Those are the three main points Max related to me, I have nothing further to add, make of it what you will.
 
Let's just hope they somehow put in Fort Frolic, with the mad artist guy.
 
Well, the little sisters thing was given, considering the ratings board would've never allowed the killing of girls on screen.
 
They're evil girls - it's ok to kill them on screen.
 
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