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Shaun InguanzoBioshock film to be directed by Gore Verbinski
May 12th 2008 00:35
The Big Daddy of films?
ATMOSPHERIC first-person-shooter Bioshock is the latest video game to be given the Hollywood treatment.
This week 2K Games announced that its critically-acclaimed survival shooter would be transformed into a film directed by Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean fame.
Universal Pictures has acquired the license to shoot the film and it is planned for a release in 2009.
Tipped to join Verbinski will be John Logan, Academy Award-nominated writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd, who is in negotiations with Universal to write the screenplay for Bioshock.
A critical and consumer hit, Bioshock has sold more than 2 million units worldwide since its release in August 2007.
A sequel to the game, Bioshock 2, is planned for a release in 2009.
Shaun says:
Given how atmospheric the game was to play, and how it challenged gamers' morals with a series of live-or-die choices, I'll be keen to see how well a film can translate this feeling.
Bioshock, to gamers, feels spooky, surreal and yet engrossing. Fingers crossed the film does not disappoint.
"Please turn off your mobile phones, or Big Daddy will drill a hole through your face."
ATMOSPHERIC first-person-shooter Bioshock is the latest video game to be given the Hollywood treatment.
This week 2K Games announced that its critically-acclaimed survival shooter would be transformed into a film directed by Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean fame.
Universal Pictures has acquired the license to shoot the film and it is planned for a release in 2009.
Tipped to join Verbinski will be John Logan, Academy Award-nominated writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd, who is in negotiations with Universal to write the screenplay for Bioshock.
A critical and consumer hit, Bioshock has sold more than 2 million units worldwide since its release in August 2007.
A sequel to the game, Bioshock 2, is planned for a release in 2009.
Shaun says:
Given how atmospheric the game was to play, and how it challenged gamers' morals with a series of live-or-die choices, I'll be keen to see how well a film can translate this feeling.
Bioshock, to gamers, feels spooky, surreal and yet engrossing. Fingers crossed the film does not disappoint.
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