Recent talks have surfaced that the Bioshock movie (previously to be a Gore Verbinski epic) may not be as dead in the water as previously stated. The movie had been given an budget of around 160mil, but had the plug pulled pre-production by universal saying the movie needed to be more cost effective.
Well fans of the series can raise a curious eyebrow over news that we may have a new director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Plus Gore Verbinski is still working on the project but just as a producer. For those who don’t know Juan’s work he is best remembered for his work on the zombie horror 28 weeks later, which I thought was a brilliant sequel to follow the work of Danny Boyle’s interesting take on the genre. I’m still tossing up whether I’m excited over this, but I will say I’m glad to see the project back in the news.
For those of you who haven’t played the next gen epic, shame on you.. This is truely one of the most developed titles we have had in years, the plot centres on Jack, a lone surviver of a plane crash who finds the entrance to an underwater city that has fallen into disarray and is left to find out what happened to turn this utopia into the frightening nightmare it has become. The games art deco post 1950’s futuristic world has to be one of the most the game industries most immersive experiences and though the game has a few issues it was one of my favourite games of its year and personally I welcome the idea of a film, I know that sounds weird coming from me but I think that it has potential to be great in the right hands.. that and I’m not going to be able to stop them right?
Thoughts?
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