Word is trickling down through Variety this morning that Universal Pictures is hiring a new director for their big screen adaptation of BIOSHOCK, based on the popular video game. For awhile THE RING director Gore Verbinski was attached to direct, but had to step down due to scheduling conflicts. So who did Universal land take his place?
28 WEEKS LATER director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, that’s who! This is fantastic news, as WEEKS is a surprisingly well crafted little action/horror flick… I can only imagine what he’s going to be able to do with something like BIOSHOCK. While Verbinksi would have been cool, Fresnadillo is definitely a great choice to take the reigns on this beast.
BIOSHOCK (the video game, at least) unfolds as a deep and exciting adventure. Barely surviving a plane crash, the player lands in icy uncharted waters and discovers an undersea city called Rapture, a failed utopia whose citizens had embraced genetic engineering before the city descended into pure anarchy. Power and greed have run amok and the city has succumbed to civil war.
Stick around for more news and updates from BIOSHOCK as we hear it!