BioShock Director Says 'We're In a Pretty Good Place' With Netflix's 'Tricky' Movie Adaption

“BioShock is inactive successful development,” manager Francis Lawrence precocious told IGN erstwhile asked astir his planned Netflix movie adaptation of the acclaimed video crippled franchise, which was archetypal announced successful 2022.

The taxable of BioShock’s existent presumption came up erstwhile I interviewed Lawrence for his upcoming Stephen King movie, The Long Walk.

“I conscionable really conscionable got a draft. We person a gathering with the writer time [May 7th], truthful that's decidedly a precise beardown anticipation arsenic well,” Lawrence said.

Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049) wrote earlier drafts of the BioShock screenplay but Lawrence said this latest draught is by Justin Rhodes (Terminator: Dark Fate, Secret Level). Development connected the screenplay was enactment connected clasp during the Writers Guild onslaught successful 2023.

Lawrence – whose credits see the Hunger Games franchise, I Am Legend, and Constantine – acknowledged that it’s proven challenging turning BioShock into a movie, but is optimistic astir its prospects of yet happening.

“It's a tricky adaptation, truthful there's tons of things to fig retired and to get right,” Lawrence said. “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.”

The authorities alteration Lawrence is alluding to were archetypal mentioned astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2024 by BioShock shaper Roy Lee who revealed astatine the clip that the movie had been “reconfigured.”

“The caller authorities has lowered the budgets,” Lee said. “So we’re doing a overmuch smaller version. … It’s going to beryllium a much idiosyncratic constituent of view, arsenic opposed to a grander, large project.”

A now-slimmed down mentation of a BioShock movie suggests elements from the games specified arsenic the underwater metropolis Rapture mightiness person been deemed excessively costly by a present price-conscious Netflix.

Lawrence has antecedently promised that his BioShock movie volition beryllium “really existent to the crippled itself,” though nonstop details connected the task stay murky but for BioShock creator Ken Levine and Take-Two Interactive being progressive with it.

Should a Francis Lawrence-directed BioShock movie really hap past The Boys’ Jack Quaid wants to play a relation successful it.