Bioshock Temporarily Halted
Verbinski's Bioshock Temporarily Halted
Source: Variety.com April 24, 2009Less than a month after the announcement that director Gore Verbinski was passing on helming a fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film to move forward on directing a live action movie based on Take-Two Interactive's video game Bioshock, Variety reports that Universal Pictures has put the brakes on the film in the middle of pre-production.
Unlike what happened to the Universal and 20th Century Fox adaptation of Microsoft's Halo a few years back, everyone involved says they're still determined to make the movie, despite Universal getting cold feet when the cost to make the film rose to $160 million (A similar thing happened with Ridley Scott's Robin Hood before they reworked the script to do it for less money.) Verbinski and his production team will be evaluating whether they can make the movie outside the country to take advantage of tax credits.
Gore Verbinski May Not Direct BioShock
Source: Los Angeles Times June 1, 2009In an interview with the Los Angeles Times about his video game production company Blind Wink, "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski elaborated further on the recent news that the BioShock movie was halted in the middle of pre-production.
"The bottom line is it has to shoot out of the States for budget reasons and my schedule may be prohibitive," said Verbinski. "There's a great script and a really interesting cast. It really comes down to the financial model now. Big movies are just not being shot in the States. I'm weighing whether I can physically go the U.K. or Australia or one of those other places with a tax rebate for a year-and-a-half."
New director onboard
Universal Hires New BioShock Director Source:Variety August 23, 2009Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later, Intacto) is in talks to direct BioShock, the Universal Pictures adaptation of the Take-Two Interactive video game, says Variety.
Gore Verbinski has stepped out of the directing slot, but remains the film's producer through his Universal-based Blind Wink. John Logan wrote the script.
According to the trade, Verbinski opted out of directing because the studio's budget plan for the film has been revamped to film abroad in order to take advantage of tax credits and favorable exchange rates. Verbinski couldn't commit to an overseas shoot because he is locked into directing the Paramount animated film Rango.
Originally posted by Kazenji
Yeah and thats what they said about superhero movies for a while until they started getting things right there.
movies based on comics and movies based on games are two different things. The superhero movies have done very well so far but the videogame movies haven't done well so far. Resident Evil, Doom, Bloodrayne, Street Fighter (the live action ones), House of the Dead, Dead or Alive, and the Mario Bros. saw to it that game based movies suck.
If Bioshock does become a success then there will be hope for game based movies but if not, please, for the love of god, Hollywood should quit adapting games into trashy movies.
Originally posted by Kazenji
Not just that they need to start tampering with the goddamn storyline for the games they'rer good enough as it is.
Actually, often, they're not. Games have to have action sequences really often to keep players interested and thus plots, even if they seem to be pretty cool in the game, are normally quite threadbare, or they have a reasonable film plot stretched across 20 hours of gameplay and 50 massive gunfights.
Originally posted by Kazenji
Well most of the time the things that they do change for the movie version it becomes completely different to what happens in the actual game itself.
DOOM, the creatures weren't creatures from hell which is quite a main point in the DOOM games...thats the only one I can think of, I don't watch many movies based on games