We’ve known that Netflix was working on a BioShock movie since February, and now some concrete details have come to light regarding who’ll be sitting in the director’s chair.
On Thursday, Netflix announced that Francis Lawrence will direct the BioShock movie. Best known for I Am Legend, Constantine, and The Hunger Games series, Lawrence has extensive experience with sci-fi genre films. He’s also joining Michael Green, screenwriter behind Logan and Blade Runner 2049, who’s writing the script.
BioShock, developed by Irrational Games and 2K Australia, is often heralded as one of the all-time great FPS titles. Players step into the shoes of Jack, a man who’s just entered the dilapidated underwater city of Rapture. Unsettling monstrosities and dangerous folk skulk about every dimly-lit corridor that’s rife with gaudy artwork. Without delving too far into spoiler territory, much of the narrative was inspired by objectivist writings like Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged.
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Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, I Am Legend, Slumberland) has joined to direct the live action film adaptation with Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049, Death on the Nile) writing the screenplay. pic.twitter.com/xG03TfM0Qx
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There isn’t any other publicly available information regarding the BioShock movie thus far. Netflix notes that Lawrence is still knee-deep filming The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, so it’ll probably be quite a while before the director gets around to BioShock.
An astonishing number of video game-to-film project announcements lately. Some examples are The Last of Us, Twisted Metal, Minecraft, Gravity Rush, Horizon Zero Dawn, and plenty more. The Game Awards even has a ‘best adaptation’ category at this year’s show.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
