Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Bioshock
8/5/08 - Gore Verbinski has landed a three-year first-look deal at
Universal Pictures, where he's developing a big-screen adaptation of the
hit SF video game Bioshock. Verbinski, who helmed the three
Pirates of the Caribbean films, will focus his efforts on the
video-game movie before moving on to other projects through his Blind
Wink Productions company. Bioshock, based on the Take-Two game,
is being scripted by John Logan and revolves around the mysterious
events that transpire in an underwater utopia known as Rapture.
Take-Two is developing a Bioshock game sequel that will be
released in 2009, likely before the film hits theaters.
05/09/08 - Universal has signed a deal to adapt the hit SF video game Bioshock into a film under director Gore Verbinski. Bioshock publisher Take-Two Interactive is getting a multimillion-dollar advance against gross points on the movie deal, which is believed to be the biggest video-game-to-movie deal since 2005. Bioshock takes place in an underwater city based on the free market principles of Ayn Rand, but things have gone disastrously wrong. Players control a pilot who crash-lands at a secret entrance to the city, called Rapture, and is drawn into a power struggle during which he discovers that his will is not as free as he'd thought. Verbinski said that Rapture's art-deco design and visually arresting characters--such as the mechanical Big Daddys who protect genetically mutated girls called Little Sisters--inspired him to see the game as a film.
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