There’s been very little movement on the BIOSHOCK front – movie-wise, that is – since last August, when the production got a new director in the form of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 WEEKS LATER). The film’s first director, Gore Verbinski, dropped out after Universal halted production to figure out a way to bring the presumably insane budget down to a reasonable number.
We’re still waiting for that to happen, but according to Verbinski, the plan is still to move forward with a film adaptation of the popular video game. Verbinski, who has a multitude of projects of his own to focus on, is still producing; he spoke with IGN about the BIOSHOCK hold-up, and truth be told, he said all the right things.
“We’re working trying to make it. The problem with BioShock was: R-rated movie, underwater, horror. It’s a really expensive R-rated movie. So we’re trying to figure out a way working with [director] Juan Carlos [Fresnadillo] to get the budget down and still keep so it’s true to the core audience, you know? The thing is it has to be R, a hard R.”
“We don’t want to dumb it down, we don’t want to make it PG-13. We want to keep it really edgy, and it’s a huge bill.”
R-rated. Underwater. Horror. The man is scratching me where I itch. Universal needs to make this happen with the quickness. A movie like this doesn’t need to have a $160 million price tag to work (and that’s evidently what the figure was before Verbinski dropped out) – just look at DISTRICT 9. I understand the underwater aspect makes it trickier, but that’s where ingeniuty comes in people!
In case you’ve never played the game, here’s what BIOSHOCK is all about: Set in an alternate history 1960, the game places the player in the role of a plane crash survivor named Jack, who must explore the underwater city of Rapture, and survive attacks by the mutated beings and mechanical drones that populate it.
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