Remember the BioShock movie? Turns out it got canceled just weeks before filming

Director Gore Verbinskꦺi, whose psychological thriller A Cure for Wellness is debuting tomorrow, recently jumped on Reddit to promote his new movie , but ended up providing an interesting update on one of his older films that never came to pass: BioShock.
Some of you may recall that Verbinski (who also helmed Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3) was all set to direct a film adaptation of BioShock back in 2009, but the project suddenly fell apart with only two months left before cameras started rolling - and now we ⛎know why.
“We were eight weeks prior shooting when the plug was pulled,” Verbinski wrote. “It's an R rated movie. I wanted to keep it R rated, I felt like that would be appropriate, and it's an expensive movie. It's a massive world we're creating and it's not a world we can simply go to locations to shoot.” He෴ explained that the production was aiming to “build an entire underworld universe,” a decision that gave the executives at Universal some pause.
The director also cited the failures of some other high-profile projects around that time as factors that may have spooked the studio into backing out. “At that time also there were some R rated, expensive R rated movies that were not working,” he said, possibly referring to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, which ended up making $107 million in the US on a $130 million budget. “So I think things have changed and maybe there will be another chance, but it's very difficult when you're eight weeks away from shooting a movie you🉐 really can see in your head and you've almost filmed the entire thing, so emotionally you're right at that transition from architect to becoming a contractor and that will be a difficult place to get b𒈔ack to.”
It sounds like Verbinski himself may not be the one to ultimately translate that game to the big screen, but fans are certainly🌼 hoping that someone will eventually come along and deliver on the game’s cinematic potential. What do you think? Do you want to see a BioShock movie, or should Hollywood leave🦂 this one alone? Let us know in the comments.
Image: concept artist Kasra Farahani
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