Speaking during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 this week, BioShock movie producer Roy Lee has confirmed that the adaptation of 2007’s critically acclaimed title is still in the pipeline, although the budget has been reduced as the project is being ‘reconfigured.’
The new regime has lowered the budgets. So we’re doing a much smaller version. … It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, big project.
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The BioShock movie adaptation was originally announced in February 2022, and is a production between Netflix, 2K, and Take-Two Interactive. Francis Lawrence is still attached to direct the film, although details on plot and casting haven’t been confirmed yet.
This isn’t the first time that movie makers have attempted to bring BioShock to the big screen. If you cast your mind back quite a few years, you may recall that Gore Verbinski was going to helm a big-budget BioShock film, and later revealed that the project was cancelled mere weeks before it was set to begin filming.
BioShock was created by Ken Levine and released for Xbox 360 and PC in Summer 2007, before arriving on the PS3 the following year. Cloud Chamber is working on a brand new instalment in the franchise, although there’s no concrete details available on the project yet.
[Source – Variety]