Netflix Bioshock Movie Adaptation Announced

BPX said:
Black Little Sister and Asian Big Daddy here we go.
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Hopefully the new diving suits will have leather detailling too:




They need to include every known element of counterculture currently known to zerkind if we want it to be "successful".
 
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balls of snow said:
Would rather infinite. Floating cities with todays cgi. Way better hook to lure the casuals.
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And casting Ana De Armas as Elizabeth for eye candy and we in baby.

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Halo is Back said:
When has a video game movie even been good? I won't hold my breath. What an ambitious game to take on though. This one will be easy for them to fuck up.
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Never. Then again that goes for any adaptation. It will never compare to the original material. Especially since you're condensing it to 1.5 to 2.5 hours for a movie and usually some stupid "creative liberties" are taken. A TV series has more potential, but then there's budgeting concerns.
 
kiphalfton said:
Never. Then again that goes for any adaptation. It will never compare to the original material. Especially since you're condensing it to 1.5 to 2.5 hours for a movie and usually some stupid "creative liberties" are taken. A TV series has more potential, but then there's budgeting concerns.
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Like I said in my original post they are much better off not trying to follow game's story and instead tell the story from perspective of citizen in Rapture, before it's destruction and see madness taking over the Rapture through their eyes.

Reality is there is no way in hell a movie format can effectively tell main story of Bioshock because it was design around us playing the game.
 
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Captain Toad said:
They're getting better. Sonic was pretty good and then you got Wreck it Ralph and Free Guy.

The Witcher Netflix series is great. Technically, based on the books, but let's be honest, it wouldn't exist without the games and the show is influenced by the games.

There was a time when games based off movies or other licensed properties were horrible. But, that has completely turned around ever since Arkham Asylum.
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Fair point, The Uncharted movie seems pretty decent.
 
Seeing as Guillermo del Toro's $200M, R-rated version was rejected, I am not confident that Netflix will be able to deliver a competent film.
 
Bioshock fans will enjoy it no matter what, it might go to the rapture, big daddies etc. top fps franchise all time, maybe putting Bioshock back in the spot light will spawn Bioshock 4

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Verbinski was a pretty great fit for this original version; whoever they get to replace him now that they're actually going to film this thing needs to be really, really good. A full skillset is required to make this what it is capable of being and fulfilling he promise of the world -- big budget experience, good with actors/character, visual stylist, great with design & FX, and hopefully a gamer? Netflix is spending 470 million on 2 Knives Out sequels, which is fucking insane... so there's no reason to think they won't/can't also spend properly to give this a chance to be really special.

There's no reason why this property couldn't attract a top AAA talent, and GDT has a good thing going with Netflix, by all accounts... he would be my first call if I were in charge.
 
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Its great to see just how mind numbingly bankrupt the west is creatively speaking. All they have now is digging through other medium's greatness, which they fail to realize what made it great to begin with. Many of these gaming experiences are just that, something that crafts a narrative so well around the player and their actions along with outstanding visual and sound design blended with excellent writing and acting. Even if it actually somehow turned out great, I wouldn't want to see it. For me Bioshock is a game first and foremost, still have my Big Daddy figure preorder in its original box. When I want something else in this universe I replay the games. I can only imagine how f'd up this is going to be from the original masterpiece.
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Danjin44 said:
Like I said in my original post they are much better off not trying to follow game's story and instead tell the story from perspective of citizen in Rapture, before it's destruction and see madness taking over the Rapture through their eyes.

Reality is there is no way in hell a movie format can effectively tell main story of Bioshock because it was design around us playing the game.
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It's just a world, and some characters. It will obviously not be the same experience, yes Bioshock is a great game because of the interplay of interactivity & narrative. But it's a great world, it's got a lot worth exploring... it might be hard to do, but it's absolutely possible to adapt this into a really good movie. It happens to books all the time -- you can't do with a film what you can do on the page, in the same way you can't/wouldn't do with a game what you would do on the screen.

Perspective of citizens in Rapture as things fall apart is a great angle for some scenes, perhaps some kind of intro or a series of flashbacks or whatever... but I'd be shocked if they didn't just stick with the main character in the game.

kiphalfton said:
Never. Then again that goes for any adaptation. It will never compare to the original material.
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What do you mean? There are a ton of really good adaptations of really good material to a different medium. Even video game adaptations... or I suppose, stories which are heavily, heavily inspired by gaming and an overall gaming aesthetic. When the right people who "get it" are involved, interesting/entertaining/"good" movies are made. That's all it takes.

Now... I do admit, for whatever reason, that it can be slim pickings with regard to official adaptations -- at a minimum I think there are "worth the watch" movies based on Mortal Kombat, Silent Hill, Pikachu, Sonic, maybe one or two of the Resident Evil movies... I'd even argue for Warcraft and Assassin's Creed, personally. And there have also been a number of pretty close calls which held promise -- Blomkamp's Halo, Gears of War, Verbinski's Bioshock, John Woo's Metroid!... there's probably a few more.

Then consider movies that seem to be really clearly inspired by video games or directly about video games -- Wreck It Ralph movies, Jumanji movies, Crank movies, Hardcore Henry, Upgrade, Scott Pilgrim, Tron movies, Edge of Tomorrow...

It's not a VAST list of "great" offerings... but I think it's trending in the right direction, generally.
 
kiphalfton said:
Never. Then again that goes for any adaptation. It will never compare to the original material. Especially since you're condensing it to 1.5 to 2.5 hours for a movie and usually some stupid "creative liberties" are taken. A TV series has more potential, but then there's budgeting concerns.
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Someone hasn't read the Godfather or Jaws.
"How dare you take liberties with Brodie's wife's rape by a back guy fantasy scene."
"Why would you remove the operation on the giant pussy sub plot. Godfather ruined!"
 
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I don't like this but if they still gonna do this, it would be better as a limited series than a 2 hour movie
 
This is meh to me. The first game's story was so depressing that I never played the sequels, so obviously I have zero interest in something that is only the story.
 
EruditeHobo said:
Perspective of citizens in Rapture as things fall apart is a great angle for some scenes, perhaps some kind of intro or a series of flashbacks or whatever... but I'd be shocked if they didn't just stick with the main character in the game.
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My point is the main character be one of the citizen of Rapture, we see a family moving in to Rapture and they have a good life at beginning but eventually we city goes towards destruction and we see that destruction from that family's perspective.

To me that seem way more interesting than trying retell the game's story. That way movie studio have much more freedom how they wan to approach the movie but also see how what Rapture used be like in perspective of normal family.
 
zeorhymer said:
So no director and no cast and it's funded by Netflix.

Let it sleep in the deep dark ocean depths.

Edit: I just saw what else the production company did and FUCK THEM. Live adaptation of Deathnote for Netflix as well.
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Where does it say who the production company is?

According to Wiki, the team that made Death Note also made The Ring, The Grudge, IT, and Oldboy too, among others.
 
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Danjin44 said:
My point is the main character be one of the citizen of Rapture, we see a family moving in to Rapture and they have a good life at beginning but eventually we city goes towards destruction and we see that destruction from that family's perspective.

To me that seem way more interesting than trying retell the game's story. That way movie studio have much more freedom how they wan to approach the movie but also see how what Rapture used be like in perspective of normal family.
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It may very well be more interesting! But it's not really Bioshock anymore... it's a Rapture movie.

Maybe that's the best way to do a Bioshock movie, is make a Rapture movie instead... that's possible. I would watch that movie, I would pay money to check that out. I'm just not sure how much of a Bioshock movie it is at that point.
 
EruditeHobo said:
It may very well be more interesting! But it's not really Bioshock anymore... it's a Rapture movie.

Maybe that's the best way to do a Bioshock movie, is make a Rapture movie instead... that's possible. I would watch that movie, I would pay money to check that out. I'm just not sure how much of a Bioshock movie it is at that point.
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I see your point but at same I just cant see main story Bioshock would work in movie format, especially when it come to its biggest twist in the story.


Even Bioshock movie cannot be worse than Netflix trying to make live action movie of Once Piece.
 
Would Bioshock even work as a movie? I mean, I love the game, and rate it as one of the best shooters of that generation, but it just doesn't seem like it would adapt well to the silver screen. And the twist at the end? Everyone knows about that twist nowadays. I'd much prefer a series about the downfall of Rapture.
 
PaddyOCanager said:
Arcane was great so I don't understand the negativity for this with so few details. My expectations will plummet if this is live action though.

Edit: Witcher is decent but mostly carried by Henry as Geralt imo.
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I think it has more to do with Netflix being pretty bland company and the franchise being well past it's sell by date. The ingredients to the stew just aren't that exciting.
 
tassletine said:
I think it has more to do with Netflix being pretty bland company and the franchise being well past it's sell by date. The ingredients to the stew just aren't that exciting.
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Sorry, what? Well past it's sell-by date? Bioshock is still one of the most played shooters, and each title offers something unique. And with a new potentially open-world Bioshock game in the world, I'd say the series is nowhere near its sell-by date.
 
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