BioShock movie doomed

[TheOneFreeMan]

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24965

Gore Verbinksi, admirer of video games and director of Pirates of the Caribbean, has stepped down as director of the upcoming BioShock film, as 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo takes the reins, Variety reported on Sunday.

Verbinski will still be involved with the film as a producer, the report said. Verbinski in the past was named as the movie's director, but despite his apparent interest in video games and Take-Two-published BioShock in particular, overseas filming proved to be prohibitive to his schedule.

There goes another hope for a decent movie based on a game.

 

[Darkside55]

Bioshock was doomed long before this. It's a movie based on a video game.

 

[Gunner]

At least it's not Uwe BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL...

 

[CyberPitz]

Bioshock was doomed long before this. It's a movie based on a video game.

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this

 

[Jintor]

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this

That, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that

 

[Shift]

There is no such thing as a decent movie based game.

 

[Darkside55]

There is no such thing as a decent movie based game.

MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

 

[Asknoone]

Gore Verbinksi to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. That's like sun-dried turd to whipped manure.

 

[Rizzo]

I love Mortal Kombat.

The theme song makes that movie.

So awesome! GOD ****ING DAMN IT IT GET'S ME PUMPED!

 

[Lizardizzle]

We had a friend over a few weeks ago who worked on many movies. He told me about the movie and how it had been canned. I was sad.

 

[Shift]

Mortal Kombat doesn't count, its one of those its so bad its good films.

 

[Rizzo]

Not Annihilation. It's so bad it's ****ing terrible.

I do like the Annihilation Kombat mix of the theme song though.

 

[Lucid]

What's so bad about this? 28 Weeks Later wasn't that bad.

 

[Apocalypse89]

I never got why people are always excited for a movie based on their favorite game. As has already been mentioned a million times, those almost never end well.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

What's so bad about this? 28 Weeks Later wasn't that bad.

Actually I've got to agree what's the big problem with this guy specifically? We all know it will be terrible anyway so why is this guy so bad?

 

[Darkside55]

Mortal Kombat doesn't count, its one of those its so bad its good films.

You're thinking Street Fighter, or maybe the Mario Bros. movie. Mortal Kombat is a genuinely good video game movie that stays 100% true to the source material, which is ridiculous. When's the last time you saw ANY movie adaptation, game, book, or otherwise, remaining 100% faithful?

 

[Sedako]

You're thinking Street Fighter, or maybe the Mario Bros. movie. Mortal Kombat is a genuinely good video game movie that stays 100% true to the source material, which is ridiculous. When's the last time you saw ANY movie adaptation, game, book, or otherwise, remaining 100% faithful?

Not 100% faithful. Raiden is not Raiden without his awesome hat.

 

[Darkside55]

He had the hat, didn't he? I think he had the hat when he first showed up.

 

[Sedako]

Oh yeah, he does. Wow, it's been a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlvJdxvMouY&feature=PlayList&p=CF56F385DA0A3170&index=32

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

I never got why people are always excited for a movie based on their favorite game. As has already been mentioned a million times, those almost never end well.

That's why I said the hope was doomed.

It's not that it can't be done. It just never has been.

 

[smwScott]

What's so bad about this? 28 Weeks Later wasn't that bad.

This is the internet. You're not cool unless you think everything sucks.

 

[Sparta]

Actually I've got to agree what's the big problem with this guy specifically? We all know it will be terrible anyway so why is this guy so bad?

Yeah I totally agree. There's plenty of problems with the script to 28 Weeks Later but the guy's direction was pretty good. The opening scene especially was ace.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Did someone call me?
oh
nevermind

Spoiler

It was doomed anyway, I don't know why you're so surprised on a change of directors.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Mortal Kombat doesn't count, its one of those its so bad its good films.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

It was doomed anyway and you all know it.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I don't know what y'all are talking about, since 28 Weeks Later was great and Intacto is pretty good as well. Besides, as set-ups for movies go, "Objectivist playboy establishes underwater anarcho-capitalist utopia in the 1950s. Everything goes horribly wrong" is a pretty good one.

 

[Sledgehammer]

I liked the Hitman movie.

Magnus og Myggen is actually great, but I don't think it's aired anywhere else than Scandinavia.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I liked the Hitman movie.

*rocks back and forth and cries hysterically*

 

[Unfocused]

28 Days Later is a good movie, so if anything, the director change will be for the better.

Which still leaves it a movie based on a video game.

 

[Kadayi]

Before 28 weeks later Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed Intacto (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220580/) and that is actually a pretty good film. Worth seeing if you have the time and inclination.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I believe mankind can combine shooting zombie-things with electricity that comes out of your hands and philosophical critique. We owe it to our children and our children's children.

As is always the case, there's extreme danger in straying too close to the source material. Sure, you could make a film about Some Guy With A Tattoo escaping from a ruined world, but you'd have to strip that plot down immensely, and even if you did, you'd probably still just end up with The Resident Poseidon Evil Adventure. A good way to do things would probably be to set a different plot (the operation against Fontaine; a man trying to protect his small business as the two 'sides' form; a mother looking for her lost Little Sister) amidst the social chaos and maintenance breakdown that leads up to the first moments of the game. Even then, you've a lot to pack in if you want to include the more fantastic elements.

Man, now that I think about it I can't even imagine how you would begin to make this film.

Obviously, the actual best route would be to make a TV show. Starts off in utopia, following many different characters. Over several seasons, everything collapses. You can watch it all unfold in detail. And the by the last few episodes of the final season, almost all those people are dead, or twisted unrecognisably into gross parodies of themselves. The camera follows those that remain, picking tentatively through the darkened ruins for scraps, trying to find a way out to the surface, or locking themselves in tiny rooms before poisoning themselves and their two kids.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Alternatively if you really wanted to get all that extra plot in you could simply litter the cinema floor with walkmen containing audio diary tapes, and ask the audience to scrabble about for them during the film's quieter moments. HA HA