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Gore Verbinski making BioShock movie
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 9th May 2008
Gore Verbinski has signed on to direct a BioShock film, with plans for a Portal movie in mind too.
In an interview with Variety, Verbinski says he's excited to be a part of the project (obviously) and that he has been having regular chats with BioShock creator Ken Levine, who has not yet had a formal role in the project announced.
Verbinski says that he is ready to start working on the film as soon as the script is finalised and that Universal is currently in talks with John Logan, Oscar nominated writer of The Aviator, to produce said script. Whatever the case, Verbinski is a keen gamer himself and has indicated he plans to make an 18-certificate (R-rated) film out of BioShock.
"Of all the games out there, I think Bioshock is the one that's the most engaging," said Verbinski. "I think the whole utopia-gone-wrong story that's cleverly unveiled to players is brimming with cinematic potential."
Verbinski also mentions that he has recently finished Portal and that he'd love to make a film of that too if given the chance.
"I hope to make it up to Valve. "Portal" is one of my favorites. For now, it's just an open dialogue about how far we can push this thing."
Reckon that Verbinski has the ability to do BioShock justice, or would you kindly tell him to shove off? Let us know what you think in the forums.
Comments (20)
but i doubt it will work out well.
I'd much rather see a Half-Life Movie - Ed Norton as Gordon Freeman. It could turn into an Alien Frag-fest though, which is boring. Maybe better to start on HL2 and skim the Back story in the Narrative?
Thats what I was thinking.... don't think it would work
anyway, it would take a very delicate director and it would be a very hard job, but could have potential. It has to be as quirky as the game is and i guess that means hollywood will make a mess of it and we'll end up with a D rate movie to cash in where
I think sigourney weaver (who would do well in this i think) runs around with a portal gun and comfort cube fighting off a machine with a twisted sense of humour would be quite good. It has potential, but I'm certain hollywood would make a hash of it.
As for Bioschlock, go for it. make it, that has more obvious potential and with the premise there, could be better than the game. we can explore the emotions of the characters better and the black and white of the game can have real shades of grey in the film. (think sympathy for mr vengance style)
As if this will avoid the film being terrible. Pirates of the Carribean is a war-crime upon movie goers, not counting the most engaging thing about Bioshock is the visuals which can only be ****ed up on a big screen. Ryan will become a Commie, the entire population will be cured at the end and some random love interest plot will be tacked on.
I thought it turned out pretty well but most of that was down to Johnny Depp's performance, that role could have gone soooooo badly wrong but he produced a masterpiece of character acting in my opinion. Its just such a shame that PotC 2&3 were so poor in comparison, I guess it was a case of going to the well just too many times.
With regards to the Bioshock film, I don't doubt that there will have to be some changes, film narrative requires a differnt approach from a book, a comic or a game but I reckon part of the secret is to retain what makes the source material good and crafting it into the film process. Like I said before Verbinski pulled a special trick out of the bag with PotC but he didn't do it on his own so at present we have one piece of the puzzle in place, the end result will depend on the rest of the team and whether or not they can take their collective talent and do something with it. Personally I'll wait until I've seen it rather that simply condem it out of hand.
Now with regards to Portal, that's one that I can't see how you can make a film out of that. As far as I was concerned the main point of the game was how you personally figured out how to tackle each of the puzzles and how successfully you carried out your solution. If you're sitting watching someone else do it I don't think its going to have much of an appeal as it would simply be like watching someone else playing the game.
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