We have been eagerly anticipating news of Netflix's BioShock movie ever since the media giant announced its plans back in February, and last night the studio provided some fresh details by revealing both the film's writer and director.
In a tweet, the streaming service announced that the upcoming adaptation would be directed by Francis Lawrence — whose past credits include I Am Legend and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — with an original script written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Michael Green — known for his work on Logan and Blade Runner 2049.
What has us excited by this announcement is the creatives' past experiences working within the realms of dystopia, a theme that's essential to get right if Netflix is to nail the feel of the BioShock series. As we reported in February, publisher and BioShock IP owners 2K and Take-Two Interactive will be involved in translating the series from game to film — another sign that the atmosphere of the games will hopefully survive the transition between mediums.
While this news points to forward motion on this long-in-development adaptation, these early creative announcements also suggest that there is a long way to go before casting or release date news. That being said, Netflix has proven in the past that it can handle a relatively fast turnaround on certain projects — and the announcement on Netflix's site Tudum states: "BioShock is coming to Netflix soon."
As impatient as we are to learn more, we hope that the creative team will have the time needed to do this right and, hopefully, build a world that will appeal to game fans and new audiences alike.
What do you make of this early development news? Ready for a return to Rapture? Kindly let us know below, would you?
[source twitter.com]
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Due to Detective Pikachu and the Sonic movies I'm hopeful but also very very scared.
I feel like Bioshock might actually lend itself well to being adapted as a film. Who am kidding tho, they'll find a way to screw it up.
Two decent movies. No great, but better than average. Which isn't saying much.
Michael Green?... Why not Uwe Boll? There is almost no difference between them. And there is no difference between videogames movie adaptations - almost all of them are very bad.
They're making a movie? I wonder how badly they're gonna screw it up?
Francis Lawrence's direction in his Hunger Games movies is pretty decent, their weaknesses were in their story and writing mostly. But with Michael Green writing, this sounds like a very promising combination. The biggest red flag is Netflix themselves.
The director and script writer are not the best, but reputable anyway. I'm somewhat hopeful but expecting nothing much.
After the abysmal resident evil netflix show I have absolutely no confidence in this being any good
@Heroofthenexus clearly was good or it wouldn't have gotten 2 sequels & another game in development ATM lol
I loved Bioshock, and have bought it many times over on multiple machines. That being said, Hollywood has an extremely bad record for the past decade of making anything movies, series, etc. I really have zero faith in this being any good at this point which is really sad. I've literally gotten to the point where I prefer anything that comes out of Korean movie studios over anything out of Hollywood.
they will probably get this right.. depends on the cast and if it can fly under the radar unscathed
Netflix will not rest until all your favorite game franchises have had insulting re-imaginings on their streaming service! This is there cause. It is their passion.
not bad but not good enough to shake the Netflix stank. goddamn are they bad at everything these days
@Would_you_kindly plenty of horrendous examples before that too.
not to mention it's a pretty unethical company
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