A BioShock movie has been on again, off again for many years now, but THR reports this afternoon that Netflix‘s BioShock feature film is finally beginning to take shape.
Netflix has joined forces with Take-Two Interactive on a BioShock movie, with plans to develop “a potential cinematic universe” based around the popular video game franchise.
Vertigo Entertainment and Take Two will produce Netflix’s BioShock.
THR recaps, “Released in 2007 from 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two, the first-person shooter game featured a crumbling underwater city named Rapture, its society fragmented in a civil war with many inhabitants addicted or using a genetically-enhancing serum that gives people powers while also living in fear from Big Daddies, mutated humans who have been merged with diving suits. Into this world is dropped the game’s protagonist, Jack, a survivor of a mysterious plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean.”
The original game spawned follow-ups BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite.
As you may recall, Gore Verbinski had been attached to bring the BioShock video game to the big screen back in 2008, just one year after the game was released. Verbinski’s plan was to make a rated “R” adaptation of the game, but at the time, Universal wasn’t too keen on spending so much money on an “R”-rated movie. This according to Verbinski back in 2017.
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