Netflix’s BioShock Movie Is Still Happening (No, Really)

Over 2 years ago, Netflix revealed its plans to accommodate the BioShock franchise into film. The archetypal 2007 title from Irrational Games had a movie that was floating successful improvement hellhole for… a while, but the occurrence of Arcane and Castlevania spurred the streamer into action. We haven’t heard anything astir it since then, but it’s seemingly inactive connected Netflix’s docket, albeit with immoderate caveats.

During a sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con (via Variety), shaper Roy Lee opened up connected the film’s progress. Netflix’s caller authorities change—Dan Lin replaced Scott Stuber arsenic its movie chief—has resulted successful lowered movie budgets. As a result, the BioShock movie volition beryllium a “much smaller” affair. While Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is inactive attached to the project, Lee said the movie would beryllium “be a much idiosyncratic constituent of view, arsenic opposed to a grander, large project.”

On 1 hand, this is simply a tenable determination connected Netflix’s end. Several of its movies don’t consciousness arsenic costly arsenic they seemingly are. (Go look astatine The Grey Man or immoderate of their genre fare arsenic an example.) Like Apple oregon Warner Bros., Netflix is realizing it needs to enactment smarter, not harder, and if that means scaling backmost connected their cinematic ambitions, past spell up and chopped immoderate budgets. That said, the BioShock franchise is successful immoderate ways defined by grandiosity and excess; the cities of Rapture and Colombia were filled with elites and yet went to hellhole erstwhile they (or extracurricular forces) got superpowers and turned connected each other.

If Lawrence tin recognize his imaginativeness for BioShock with little wealth than planned, much powerfulness to him. But it’s besides worthy asking if this is each worthy it if it’s seemingly arsenic hard arsenic making a caller game.

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