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BioShock Movie Needs To Be Filmed Outside America
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Due to budget concerns, the BioShock movie has been put on ice — don’t tell Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller! More »
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12:00PM Michael McWhertor | 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. More »
Universal Puts BioShock Movie On Hold On Budget Concerns
12:00PM Michael McWhertor | 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. More »
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Arr! Director Chooses BioShock Over Pirates
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | 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. More »
Second Life Cheating Husband Surprised by Movie Deal
12:40AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
BioShock Movie Staying Faithul To Source, Won’t Star Kate Hudson
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | 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] More »Brett Ratner Wants To Make Video Game Movies, Too
2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | 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] More »
Will Verbinski Make BioShock The First Great Game Flick?
4:20AM Kotaku US Edition | 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.
Gore Verbinski Making BioShock Movie, Eyeing Portal
1:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Publisher Take Two has inked its first movie deal. According to Variety, underwater corridor FPS BioShock is getting a big Hollywood film adaptation. The biggest film-to-game deal since Peter Jackson’s ill-fated Halo movie, the BioShock Universal produced flick will be helmed by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. Universal is in talks with Oscar nominated scribe John Logan (The Aviator) to do the script. Verbinski has been talking with BioShock creator Ken Levine on a regular basis about the project, but no word what official capacity he’ll take. Verbinski says he plans on making an R-rate film and work will begin once there’s a quality script. About BioShock, Verbinski says: More »
Gore Verbinski Pontificates About “Zero Narrative”
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Pirates of Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is excited. Not so much about movies, but games. Just like at DICE, he’s very peppy and very clueless. That’s okay! So, what interests Verbinski about games? More »
