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Eyeing up a potential cinematic universe.
Netflix, hardly a stranger in the world of video game adaptations, has chucked another beloved property onto its increasingly teetering list, this time turning Irrational Games’ dystopian underwater FPS into a live-action film.
The newly announced project is a collaboration between Netflix and Take-Two Interactive (the latter is listed as producer alongside Vertigo Entertainment), and still appears to be early in development, with the Hollywood Reporter claiming that no writer or film maker is currently attached.
About the only additional bit of new right now is that the deal was sign with an eye on developing a potential cinematic universe around the BioShock games – which makes a degree of sense, given BioShock Infinite’s premise of multiple lighthouses in multiple worlds leading to their own dystopian cities, be that underwater in the 60s in Andrew Ryan’s Rapture or high in the sky at the city of Columbia at the turn of the 20th century.
This isn’t Hollywood’s first attempt at adapting BioShock into a movie; Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was originally set to make a go of it back in 2008, then 28 Weeks Later helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was attached. However, back in 2014, BioShock creator Ken Levine revealed he had personally canned the film project following several failed attempts to get the movie made – relating to both budgetary and content concerns.
There’s no indication of when Netflix’s attempt might reach fruition, but with a new BioShock game rumoured to be announced later this year, it seems like the streaming service might be wanting to get the project off the ground sooner rather than later.
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