BioShock Movie is 'Definitely' Based on the First Game, as Script Work Continues Following Netflix Budget Cut

The long-awaited BioShock movie volition accommodate the series' archetypal game, its shaper has confirmed, arsenic enactment connected the film's publication continues.

Netflix announced plans for a movie mentation of 2K Games' beloved franchise backmost successful 2022, pursuing earlier, discarded plans for a BioShock movie that agelong backmost astir 2 decades. But caller years person seen the task stall again, arsenic Netflix cuts changed the scope of the movie, thing which has seen its publication accommodate accordingly.

Now, shaper Roy Lee has confirmed the task is inactive successful progressive development, with The Hunger Games manager Francis Lawrence remaining connected board.

"Netflix wants america to support everything nether wraps," Lee told The Direct. "But it's decidedly going to beryllium based connected the archetypal BioShock game."

Lee went connected to accidental that Lawrence had the BioShock movie lined up arsenic his adjacent task aft The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping, which is acceptable to spell into accumulation soon up of a November 2026 merchandise date.

"BioShock was delayed for a small spot wherever we had to bash immoderate much publication work," Lee said. "And truthful arsenic the publication enactment is being done, we changeable [Stephen King dystopian endurance horror] The Long Walk, and helium was already committed to doing the adjacent Hunger Games movie. And truthful it's conscionable waiting for him whenever the Hunger Games is completed," Lee added, "and the publication is conscionable being worked connected close now."

Fans had expected the task to beryllium successful afloat accumulation by now, though Lee stated past twelvemonth that the movie was being reworked for a smaller fund pursuing changes successful Netflix management. An archetypal publication from Logan writer Michael Green has besides been ditched, for a mentation present penned by Terminator: Dark Fate's Justin Rhodes.

"It's a tricky adaptation, truthful there's tons of things to fig retired and to get right," Lawrence told IGN previously. "There's authorities changes astatine Netflix, and truthful things stall retired and get re-energized and stall retired and get re-energized, and I deliberation we're successful a beauteous bully place, honestly."

Back successful the satellite of video games, 2K precocious confirmed it had overhauled the likewise long-awaited BioShock 4, which has been successful improvement for the past decade. Amid layoffs and a further hold to the project's release, erstwhile Gears of War caput and Diablo franchise pb Rod Fergusson volition present oversee the project. Fergusson volition besides caput up the game's improvement workplace Cloud Chamber, arsenic it attempts to yet wrestle the task to release.

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