14 DAY TRIAL // The movie adaptation of the BioShock series of first-person shooters is pretty much dead in the water, as the director of the whole project, Gore Verbinski, revealed that he was off the whole thing because the movie studios wooldn't give him funding to realize his own version of the underwater city of Rapture.
In the last few years, Hollywood movie studios have been extremely keen on turning big and popular video game series into motion pictures.
We've been hearing about a World of Warcraft movie and a more recent Uncharted one, but the most interesting was the BioShock project led by Gore Verbinski.
Sadly, we won't get to see Big Daddies and Little Sisters in Rapture anytime soon, as the director talked with ComingSoon and said that the whole project is dead in the water.
This is largely because no studio or financial backer will support his 'R' rated version of BioShock, insisting on making it a mainstream-friendly PG-13, and due to the fact that creating a Rapture setting would cost a lot of money.
"I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating," Verbinski said. "Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, "Jesus Christ!""
"It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the pricetag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that pricetag."
What's more, Verbinski was also quite adamant about using 3D in the movie because it would help keep the public on edge.
"[Bioshock] would be a great movie to do in 3D. I'd like to go into that world wearing a pair of glasses. I think in general, gaming is perfect for 3D. Anything where you're the protagonist. […] That's what 3D is perfect for. To make people feel on-edge."
Sadly, it seems that the BioShock movie won't be arriving onto silver screens anytime soon.