Gore Verbinski is Directing BioShock
Gore Verbinski, director of The Weather Man and the Pirates of the Caribbean films, has signed on to direct and produce BioShock, the upcoming adaptation of the popular video game for Universal Pictures, reports Variety.
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.
The games publisher, Take-Two Interactive, is getting a multimillion-dollar advance against gross points on the movie. It’s believed to be the biggest videogame-to-movie deal since 2005, when Universal and Fox signed onto the since aborted Halo feature, for which Microsoft got $5 million against 10%.
Bioshock was released last year for the Xbox 360 and sold more than 2 million units worldwide, as well as winning numerous awards.
Here is the deal in all honesty i hope they make the movie a prequal to the game before “jack” Arrives, have it a pre apocoliptic Rapture and the film is the downward spiral of rature.
Bryan | May 9th, 2008
I haven’t played Bioshock before….yet this idea sounds cool.
Btw, I want to see F.E.A.R as a movie….that’d be mad.
TonyakaSach | May 10th, 2008