@I_Hate_This_Place: Well ok then.

justhesh

@justhesh: Unfortunately it's because I call all movies a "hollywood movie". Which is my mistake.

I_Hate_This_Place

@I_Hate_This_Place: It doesn't disqualify it. But your vast mistake in that department does bring the rest under serious scrutiny.

Where you come up with the idea that it was a Hollywood movie, I have no idea. But the fact that the whole thing was in Spanish, directed by a Mexican director, distributed by a Mexican film company, and set in Spain around the time of the Spanish civil war...well, how you could so royally screw that up makes anything else you say highly questionable, to say the least.

justhesh

@dowingba: Hmm, nice way to think about it. I always assumed she liked the demon because, if I remember correctly, there is one point wher she pisses him off and thinks he is never coming back, and she seems really sad about it(that, or she was afraid of it leaving, I forget). I agree about the fruit supposed to be irresistible, but the imps should have been a huge reminder, IMO. Maybe I'm just being too harsh becasue I bought it expecting more out of the film than what I got.

I_Hate_This_Place

Prequel about the fall of Rapture. The tapes from the game already set up all the major characters and story. Everything from the woman with the scar to the asian doctor to Ryan and the dancer.

We even know how it'd end - something that could be seen as a beacon of hope or the continued perversion of that world - something that is left to us, as the players, to resolve.

I can already hear the sound of the first big daddy in that crowded theater. It will chill souls.

deVious

Del Toro would be pretty good. But I would definitely want J.J. Abrams to have something to do with my perfect BioShock movie.

DarkCrow13

@I_Hate_This_Place: I didn't find that she was "trusting" that demon at all throughout the movie. To me, it seemed she went into that place because of her curiosity and because of the idea that she might really be some mythical princess (or whatever). She was taking a calculated risk, in my opinion. Her real life was so depressing that she couldn't pass up the slightest opportunity for something better. I could relate to it, on some level; but maybe you couldn't, and that's all right.

And I think the idea behind eating the fruit was that there was something about the fruit that was irresistible, and she couldn't ...resist.

dowingba

@dowingba: Not excited, sorry if it seems that way. I was jsut responding to your question detailing my train of thought that gave me the conclusion I stated earlier. And again, I'll say that you can't say "would you trust that demon?!?!" when she had already been trusting the thing, even enough to go into that hell.

I_Hate_This_Place

I'd rather see a novelization.

mquest

@I_Hate_This_Place: Calm down. It's just a movie.

dowingba

@dowingba: Gee, i don't know. Maybe becuase it was pretty obvious by the setting that she shouldn't eat the food. Even if she wasn't trusting of her new "friend", it was obvious that touching the food could have woken up the demon at the table, one that she knows eats children from the paintings on the wall. But even the friendly imp-like creatures were trying to tell her not to do it. But your entire argument is baseless anyway, as she obviously trusted him enough to go into the door in the first place.
@justhesh: Yes, that automatically disqualifies anything I say. Good try, asshole.

I_Hate_This_Place

@Klink258:
Don't base the movie on the plot of the game. Base it on the backstory instead.

Purple Dave

@dowingba: He called it a Hollywood movie, so It's kind of obvious he doesn't know what he's talking about.

justhesh

@I_Hate_This_Place: If some weird demon told you to do something, you'd automatically do it? How the hell is the girl in the movie supposed to know that that weird demon thing she's been talking to isn't evil? I mean, it looks and acts evil, and tells her to disobey her parents, and stuff. You'd have to be incredibly stupid to just obey that creepy thing without question like you seem to be suggesting.

dowingba

Did someone say "musical"? An all-Big Daddy dance scene would be awesome. The songs from Little Mermaid could be recycled here on the cheap. "Part of Your (Objectivist) World," and "(Dystopia) Under the Sea" practically write themselves.

Add a wise-cracking crab, and you've got box office gold.

SuperOmelet

There's no way in hell the game's main plot twist would work as well in a movie. I think the reason the scene was so effective is because of the interactivity games offer.

Also, I expect they'll probably remove all references to religion and any other potentially offensive content...

Demaar

Get me Steven Spielberg! ... or his non union Mexican equivalent, señeor Spielbérgo!

Elsmooth

@SuperOmelet: I would have preferred the writer to further the story without having the main character do something that idiotic.

I_Hate_This_Place

@I_Hate_This_Place: That is about the strangest criticism of Pan's Labyrinth I could imagine. So you would prefer for her to have done what she was told, so that the movie could end sooner and everyone would be happy? If you haven't dealt with children to a great extent, they don't always do what they're told. Even when told so by people who they should really, really listen to (e.g., teachers, their parents). Much less sprites and giants.

Anyway, I believe Del Toro would be a great person to direct a Bioshock movie if such a movie has to be made.

SuperOmelet

Thankfully Take 2 isn't whoring Bioshock out to the highest bidder. They seem legitimately concerned with making sure anything that comes out of their first non-GTA property that's ever succeeded is quality.

RawSteelUT

The problem is that Bioshock is a beautiful piece of art as it is. And that means first person.
It immerses you because of this, and the only time you speak in the whole game is in the opening cutscene. How could they make a movie of the game in third person? The idea of the game was that YOU make the choices, making an emotional connection with their outcome.
How can you make an emotional connection to the face of the protagonist/antagonist if you can't sculpt it yourself?

Klink258

@Tzero7:
No, no, you got it all wrong. It's about how the Little Sisters love them some Adam. So, who do you think they'll end up casting as Adam?

Purple Dave

Then again a Big Daddy sex scene my be what I want

Mechapixel

@Raziel66: I have to Agree with you if Hollywood would just stick with the story of the game and work off that the many of the movies we watch based on video games Would Be a lot better than they actually are. Bioshock was a great game and if they ignored the story then it just wouldn't be bioshock anymore. The idea of using CGI is great but it also takes much more to time to make.

MXs219

Hitman,Resident Evil, Mega Man , Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tomb Raider, GTA, Halo, WoW, DOA, Doom, Final Fantasy, Assasian Creed, CASTLEVANIA,far cry , gears of/ god of war, Kayne and Lynch, House of Dead, Spyro the Dragon, mgs, Wolfinstein, Kameo, Portal/Half Life, Max Payne, Final Fantasy, Postal, Soul caliber,Straglehold, Tekken, Uncharted, Metroid,Pac-man, DUKE nUKEM, and Wtf Double Dragon. DO WE FUCKING NEED AS GODDAMNED VG MOVIE

Mechapixel

Only love story in this game was how much I loved Bioshock.

bboboo

@SuperOmelet: Pan's LAbyrinth FTL. Sorry, but I would hate Bioshock to turn into another stupid movie where half of the movie would have been over with had the main protagonaist NOT done what everyone including little flying imps told them not to do. I was so happy when that little girl died. You have to be some kind of stupid to specifically do what a gaint demon told you not to do, and on top of it having flying imps reminding you what not to do while you do it. Stories in most movies are shit nowadays becuase hollywood can't figure out how to progress the movie without having a character make the dumbest decision that no person with a double digit IQ would have ever made. /rant

Good job Take Two. Fuck hollywood for having to turn every movie into some sort of love interest. Especially after they messed up Hitman by adding a stupid Russian hooker.

I_Hate_This_Place

Bioshock was my favorite game last year, but if Ayn Rand was alive today I bet she would have something to say about a story that would take so much from Atlas Shrugged.

Y0URGOD78

@justhesh: Great idea there. Pan's Labyrinth FTW.

SuperOmelet

Why, oh why does hollywood have to add a love story to everything even HITMAN. The guy was a hitman, he was paid to kill he is NOT marriage/boyfriend material even for ex hookers.

Seriously do these guys snort rainbow bubblegum cocain instead of the real stuff or are people so retarded they will buy anything as long as it has a crappy love story attached.

Give me the bioshock movie the way bioshock is, twisted, corruptm horrifying and not so different from how people treat each other in times of crisis in the real world.

EdwinJ85

@Gypsie: Yeah, I was thinking Dark City and The Crow over I, Robot. In Dark City he showed a great command of low-light work that never got tiresome over the length of the movie, and I think that's what Bioshock needs. Also, it was creepy.

I guess I'd add the Caro-Jeunet team (City of Lost Children) to the list of possible directors.

SuperOmelet

They should do Bioshock-on-Ice!

Eltigro

They should make it into a cartoon!

tshack

who is your big daddy, and what does he do.

red

Some video games could be made into a movie.. if Hollywood learns to let the devs have some input into the making of the game.

Maybe if they did something like the post Matrix shorts... have a few people animate/CG/ live actions a prequel to the game. Or just do a hour or so long prequel.

SpiBoy a.k.a Duane Brown

@Zero_Beat:
And have the second BioShock game pick up from the start of the civil war, establishing a bridge from the movie to the original game through the eyes of a brand new character that has yet to appear in either game nor film.

If people are actually serious about this project, it might just work out *very* nicely.

cqdemal

@Black-Dog-Howls:
"It must be hard to sell an almost zombie-ish art deco sub-marine aquatic decaying atheist utopia pitch if that pitch isn't what you're pitching."

Well said!

Sadly, the only person I could see playing Andrew Ryan (as well as direct the film) is long, long gone. Namely, Orson Welles, age 30.

Evil Jim

The trouble with this idea of Bioshock as a movie is that the video game told the story rather well already.

Most movie adaptations of video games have their own story line, not 100% relating to the game that inspired them.

In Bioshock's case, I would ask them to kindly reproduce most of the story line faithfully. But in doing that, they just made a movie I've seen before!

IronsUK

@taftsearlobe23: "Del Toro"

Glad I'm not the only one that was thinking this.

justhesh

It's probably like with GTA, every studio and their Big Daddy (tee hee) has been sending ideas and all of them are fucking terrible.

Sabre_Justice: Look, I have a long name too! Yay! I'm such a trend whore!

@SuperOmelet: Great choice with Alex Proyas, not an obvious one either. hm...wud have to return to an earlier style, Dark City kinda era, i think id cry if a Bioshock movie had the same level of product placement as I, Robot.

@taftsearlobe23: Rodriguez has no style? hm...got urself a point of view there, i guess ...Although i wud agree that hes not right for a project like a Bioshock movie.

Id like to see, Proyas, Fincher, or Del Toro...oh, and of course, someone we're all blatantly overlooking, George Lucas!!! (joke!....dont hurt me)

Gypsie

Holy SHIT, Guillermo del Toro is doing The Hobbit 1 and 2.

I think I speak for everyone here when I say: "Awesome"

R0bster

@R0bster: Rodriguz would be horrible the man has no style. Doesn't really seam like Jacksons style and as for the Wazoski brothers well I don't want this to turn into a S&M flick. Perhaps Del Toro

taftsearlobe23

This is the sort of thing that could work very well as a prequel. Have it set as Andrew Ryan's days as an entrepreneur in the surface, only to be continuously shot down. Then, through some convoluted means, have him secure the financial and material resources necessary to build Rapture and sink it. Show the rise of Rapture, and a time of great prosperity. Show the advent of splicing, and how, for a time, everyone's lives were made much better as a result. Show corruption in the splicing industry. Show the downfall of Rapture, and the conflict with Atlas. Show people getting drilled into the wall by Big Daddies. Show the creation of the Little Sisters. Make it go from a beautiful movie to a disturbing movie. And above all else, make it a damn good movie. One that could win awards from "serious film critics." Bonus points if you make Ebert change his mind about games and art.

But do not, I repeat, DO NOT make a movie that is just the plot of the game. That is a recipe for disaster. Say what you will about the Tomb Raider movies, but they got the basic formula for video-game based movies that don't blow completely. The key is to take an established character and/or franchise and have the movie be based around what would be reasonable for that character/franchise. This is why I think the prequel would work well.

Zero_Beat

It's something weird that great movies can be turn into mediocre or good games but great games cannot be turn into good movies? Is there something wrong with the equation?Hmm...

ahmeng

"Who's you Big Daddy?!?"

Allen750

It has to be directed by Alex Proyas. Or David Fincher. Otherwise it will suck.

SuperOmelet

@voidler: That's because you're not considering the possibility that they wouldn't be making just another movie. The necessary elements exist in almost the same fashion in the film industry as they do in games.

First you need art direction, then sound design, and a director. Everything else falls into place once you have those key ingredients.

justhesh

All that the Bioshock movies needs to be is the first Die Hard just underwater.

Zinc666

casanova?

elranchero69

The guy who did American History X? He should do a Bioshock movie.

Why? Because Bioshock ain't no pussy ass shit, mother fucker.

HfAsianInvasion

Tenembaum could KINDA be a love interest...o-o

DrLight

I can see it now... you fall in love with a Big Daddy...

Okay, too creepy.

blackadvent

I just don't see how it could be done better as a movie to be frank. It'll never achieve the atmosphere of the game

voidler

@Nex Antonius: Because Bioshock is already a movie in game form.

justhesh

If they really cared about their property, they'd seek an outside source for the creation of a film.

Forget about blockbuster cash for 3 seconds and consider the possibilities of going a more artistic, ambient, and atmospheric route. Guillermo del Toro, any one?

justhesh

Why do we have to make movies out of every great game?

Nex Antonius

Love how Hollywood wants to be so "elevated" above gaming in public eye ... yet are nutting all over wanting make a movie on the most successful games.

Money talks, bullshit walks!

EnigmaNemesis

They'd be better off doing a prequel, outlining the founding and downfall of Rapture. Andrew Ryan would make a nice main character IMO. It'd have a love story, intrigue, and action. All they have to do is keep the essential scenes (Effectively all the info provided ingame) and tie it together with a focus.

Selic

I'd buy a ticket just to see a real ending.. haiyoooo!

Brackynews

Sigh, why have I yet to buy this game? I want it so badly but too lazy to pick it or anything else up, and I work at a target!

R3load

I'd rather see something akin the Animatrix, whereby short films are based on the original source material. Leaves so much room for experimentation and different takes on the entire concept...

...a single movie? No thank you. Too many ways for it to go wrong.

pylon_trooper

A game like Bioshock is already artistic to the point of being interactive cinema. Making a movie of it is in way an insult.
Perhaps a book, though.

Kai_

there's a very rich setting, with some great characters already made (big daddies, andrew ryan, etc) so most of holywood's work is already done. All they need to do is pick a timeframe in the history of Rapture and follow some of the events that took place.

Lot krotan (wut?)

@ilyag: Amen. I have gone on record many times, and I will once again go on record as saying: There will never, ever, EVER be a good video game movie. Never. Not in a million billion years. Period.

dowingba

NO MORE MOVIES BASED ON VIDEO GAMES!

It doesn't matter how awesome the game is. It doesn't matter how cinematic the game is. DO NOT TURN IT INTO A MOVIE!

ilyag

@SumDum_Guy: ...and harvesting the Little Sisters for all the glorious ADAM !!!!

SumDum_Guy

Playing through it right now (Arcadia), and although I don't know the ending to the story, it would be an interesting move - as long as Hollywood doesn't - you know, Hollywood it up.

SumDum_Guy

@Atheist Jew: Damn straight. Until Hollywood develops real respect for gaming material (something that it has yet to do unfortunately), game developers need to keep their IP the hell away from Hollywood.

theherlihyboy

I would much rather there be absolutely no movie at all than have Hollywood butcher a fantastic story with "creative direction".

Atheist Jew

@R0bster: I'd rather it not be so CGI heavy. Real actors, sets, and props please. Those directors looove their CG.

ThisCharmingMan

2k boston better have a say in this one, but they probably won't.

ghnvt

interesting. They should dig out Fritz Lang, bring him back to life and he could direct it. I mean, BioShock is like Metropolis but under water (minus, splicers and Big Daddy's ;) )

GordieHoweHatTrick

Probably because every pitch sounds like the summary from the ever so delightful and failed Double Dragon movie (which just happens to be on TV this weekend):

"In the Post-Apocalyptic Earthquake destroyed Los Angeles of 2007..."

K-OSS

@BornToFlail: Wouldn't the Big Daddy's look scarier if their EYES were on his HANDS?

@ThisCharmingMan: I can wait, as long as they do it right. How about Robert Rodriguez? Peter Jackson? The Wachowski Brothers (or siblings?)

R0bster

I think it would be great... Cast Robin Williams as the Big Daddies...

Eltigro

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): The chicks dig those love stories.

armchairnixon

Damn, call up this Mr. Boll, I heard he's good at turning games into movies!

BenKenobi88

@R0bster: Not a bad choice either...sadly all those directors have huge projects on their respective plates until about 2010.

ThisCharmingMan

@R0bster: Bad Guys aren't creepy looking enough already?

BornToFlail

@ThisCharmingMan: Yes they could pull it off, how about Guillermo del Toro?

R0bster

@Aflack: Likes slushies: Haha, doesn't have to be scene for scene, but they already have a decent story to follow. I'm just saying that they don't need to make radical changes (like they always do).

Raziel66

I don't think any directors that would do the movie justice, or take risks with the film, would be interested. I'd love to see David Fincher involved in a Bioshock film. Chris Nolan would be a good choice as well.

ThisCharmingMan

@Raziel66: Hm, we both said different things at the same time. DEBATE TIME!

Aflack: Likes slushies

@PapaBear434: lol you said "Ewe".

A bioshock movie could work as long as it's not a scene for scene adaption of the game. They have plenty of other options for storytelling.

Aflack: Likes slushies

This could be a great movie if they stick to the story presented in the game. The biggest reason why video game movies fail is because they don't follow the original storyline.
Why was mario brothers a sci-fi comedy about dinosaurs that look like people?
Why did Doom feature mutant alien things with down syndrom rather than demons from hell?
House of the dead could have stuck with the whole government agency thing that it hinted at at the end.
Bloodrayne could have stuck with a World War II storyline.
Resident Evil also had an established story (and backstory) to work with.

They need to stop changing crap. Try being faithful for once and see what happens.

Raziel66

If you find a company to do Bioshock, then that same company would probably do Halo.

Since the only way Halo is still going to be made is if Peter Jackson and Bungie fund the entire thing themselves, where does that leave Bioshock?

Besides, I don't think either are right for film adaptation.

PsycheDiver

A Bioshock movie? this is going to be a disappointment just like the Halo movie that never came.
I am still waiting to hear more news about the RE CGI movie anyone know how that one is going?

hevensxj

@BD: LOL. I know what movie that is, and feel the same way... maybe

GUNDAM-RX-78-2

why cant the developers set a small team aside to develop, from the original team, the movie. just hand pick the top ppl outsource the animation and poof ur set. i know it may not work as well but hey its just a thought.

karmakid

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): Are you serious? That'll never happen

Ollivander

Would you kindly leave the Bioshock movie out of the picture, Hollywood?

lostpuppies

Somewheeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeeeeeeeeee
beyond the seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, somewhereeeeeeeeeeee waiting for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! my lover stands on golden saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
*SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
aaaaaaaaaaand watches the ships, that goooooooo
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiin'

dum dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum

Yeah, I can see a movie there.

BD

@Trowble (XBL/PSN):

Because then it would make it look like their own writers in Hollywood are inept at making an original story when a game is running circles around their latest efforts like Step Up 2: Still Steppin'. I know it's not called Still Steppin', but a man dream damnit.

Double J

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): LOL. A producer stick to a script?

detraya

City of Lost Children should be a good guide on how this movie should at least look and treat it's plot elements.

BornToFlail

First make Bioshock on ps3 then the movie to generate more revenue for the movie. Now that is a good deal for everyone.

dexterr

Of course, because the memories of none of our other time-honored games have been sullied by being turned into a movie.

Eirias

They are just keeping it quiet to keep Ewe Boll off the scent for as long as possible.

PapaBear434

Why don't studios and producers... Oh I don't know, follow the storyline as is?

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Bioshock movie = be-all end-all (if done correctly)

Lstormy10

well... there could be a love story between andrew ryan and some significant other, a prequel to bioshock and the tale of the collapse of his relationship and his city, ie citizen kane.

just with more killing at the end. and no rosebud.

magically_delicious

Hmm, I remember hearing Orson Scott Card had similar problems when people wanted to make an Enders Game movie. I guess some Hollywood people just can't help but try and force everything into the cliched formulas.

hikaizer

@TOCATL: The thing about CG action movies, is that they lack "big" celebrity names to attract people's interest. Where as cartoony Pixar movies have universal appeal from the get go. Sad but true :(

logicaldefense

Lets see how hard they fall over themselves when they find out the producing rights have been given to Uwe Boll. LOL

JackTretton

...a love story?

PaintedMidget

It must be hard to sell an almost zombie-ish art deco sub-marine aquatic decaying atheist utopia pitch if that pitch isn't what you're pitching.

Black-Dog-Howls

If you think about it their is a deep love story between the Little Sisters and the Big Daddys.

oh no wait that came out wrong.... yeah lets just go with no love story.

Tzero7

Why dont they make a CGI movie?, that would be awesome...

TOCATL