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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Once upon a time, Hollywood was hot to trot on BioShock. Now? Less so. Making movies — especially ones that take place underwater — are expensive.
With top Director Gore Verbinski at the helm, some believed that the BioShock movie adaptation may have been the first to actually serve its source material well. He’d been responsible for creating the solid schlock remake The Ring and created a bonafide franchise in Pirates of the Caribbean. So where did it all go wrong?
Due to budget concerns, the BioShock movie has been put on ice — don’t tell Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller!
Universal and 2K Games’ big budget, big screen adaptation of BioShock may have gotten a little too big for its budget, as the film is now in a holding pattern as cost concessions are made.
Next year, the fourth installment in the US$2.6 billion grossing Pirates of the Caribbean franchise goes into production. After spending the past years on the series, director Gore Verbinski is moving on.
The man at the heart of the Second Life story, which Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski seeks to turn into a movie, was caught off guard by news of the film adaptation.
PHEW. Speaking with VG247 at the Develop conference in Brighton (fun fact: I used to live in neighbouring Seaford), BioShock creator Ken Levine has told everyone to relax. The upcoming BioShock movie project is staying faithful to the source:
You’re always going to be worried that in that first meeting they’re going to be, like, ‘OK, it’s Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey on a desert island hunting for pirate treasure,’ but it’s not going to go that way
My expectation at this time, from everything that I’ve heard, is that it will very much honour the dramatic and thematic elements of the game… They certainly understand the material and are able to provide a stamp of their own.
Thank goodness for that. But, now you mention it, that wouldn’t be the worst Uncharted movie…
BioShock movie won’t be “Kate Hudson hunting for pirate treasure,” says Levine [VG247]
Move over Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. Rush Hour franchise helmer Brett Ratner wants to make movies based on video games, too! His interest seems piqued after working on a few ad-type spots for Activision’s Guitar Hero. According to Ratner:
The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now. I will be doing movies that come from video games.
Cue line about Hollywood unable to make good game movies. Brett Ratner Bows Branding [Variety via Go Nintendo][Pic]
So, by now you’ve heard a BioShock flick is in the works, news that excites many fans – while leaving some others wary, thanks to the less-than-encouraging track record of films made from games.
Significant about the BioShock film news is the fact that Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s been tapped for the directorial role. This is interesting, because you may recall that just a couple months ago, Verbinski was the keynote speaker at the 2008 DICE summit.
Lots of gamers may have wondered what a film director was doing at DICE, but now that he’s directing our next big game flick, you may want to take a second look at what he said there.
