Netflix sure did sound excited about its BioShock movie back when it announced it in 2022, but it seems like passions have cooled. In a recent chat at San Diego Comic Con (via Variety), the film's producer Roy Lee informed fans that Netflix's "new regime has lowered the budgets… so we're doing a much smaller version" than was originally planned.
That "new regime" is Dan Lin, chairman of Netflix Films as of April this year. Back in the heady days of 2022, that responsibility (under a different name) was the purview of executive Scott Stuber, who was apparently far more bullish on Netflix's homegrown movie-making efforts. It looks like Lin's ambitions are more modest, and BioShock is being scaled back as a result.
