Producer Roy Lee revealed on Thursday that Netflix is still in development on a Bioshock movie and the project should move forward with The Hunger Games franchise’s Francis Lawrence directing, even if the pic winds up being a bit smaller in scope than originally envisioned.
Speaking at Collider’s Producers on Producers panel, also featuring Akiva Goldsman and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Lee noted that the project entered development at Netflix at a time when the streamer was under a different film regime.
This was the era of film chief Scott Stuber, who announced his departure from Netflix in January, with Dan Lin eventually coming in to take over his role, shifting the streamer away from producing an abundance of huge tentpole projects, in favor of more modestly budgeted efforts. “The new regime has lowered the budgets,” said Lee. “So we’re doing a much smaller version… It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, more epic project.” A critically acclaimed video game series developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games, Bioshock kicked off with a 2007 game of the same name, which was followed by sequels Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite in 2010 and 2013, respectively.
While each of the games examines the downfall of utopian societies due to extreme ideologies and scientific overreach, the original takes place in the underwater city of Rapture, a failed utopia riddled with political and social decay, where the player must navigate through its haunting Art Deco corridors, battling genetically modified enemies.
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