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[Draugoth]

Netflix’s film adaptation of the seminal video game “Bioshock” with director Francis Lawrence is being “reconfigured” to be a “more personal” film with a reduced budget, producer Roy Lee (“The Lego Movie”) revealed on Thursday during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con.


The adaptation was first announced Feb. 2022 as a partnership between Netflix and the game’s producers 2K and Take-Two Interactive. The first “Bioshock” game, released in 2007, is set in a vast underwater city called Rapture created in the desire to foster a utopia, but instead has fallen into chaos and violence. The game’s twist-filled narrative and vibrant philosophical worldview captured gamers imaginations; sequels followed in 2010 and 2013, and the series has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide.

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[DAHGAMING]

More Netflix shit for the masses.

 

[digital_ghost]

Can't wait for a big daddy costume with materials that look like it came from dollar tree.

 

[EruditeHobo]

All I know is that original script, done by Verbinski... that would have been a banger of a flick.

Don't know what it means that this is now at Netflix; I can't imagine they have use/ownership of that original script, but I could be wrong.

 

[Doom85]

If they’re adapting the first game, “reduced budget” does not sound good. I dunno, maybe they can pull it off, but it feels like this would necessitate a lot of well-detailed sets to truly capture the spirit of Rapture, plus you’ve got the Big Daddys and the elemental powers and such.

And good lord, trying to adapt Infinite on a lower budget would definitely be a fool’s game.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Can't wait for a big daddy costume with materials that look like it came from dollar tree.

Heh, reminds me of my launch box set packaged with a Big Daddy figure. Had to return mine twice before I got one that wasn't broken.
Very cheaply made.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

"Boy, these windows sure get foggy down here at the bottom of the ocean."

Boom. $100M saved on rendering undersea CGI.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

Time and money wasted on a thing that people will watch, and forget about after 1 month max, because Netflix.

If you want to create something with substance that will be remembered for years, and depending on how good it is, even decades, put all that money into a new game.

 

[Alan Wake]

Feels like another wasted opportunity then.