The latestBioShockannouncement thankfully confirms that a previously announced project is thankfully still in development, even if said project has been noticeably downgraded.
After being previously revealed back in February 2022, news of Netflix’s adaptation of Irrational Games' 2007 titleBioShockhas since been a little sparse.
We do have an update however, and the news comes from its producer Roy Lee. Lee announced that the film was currently being “reconfigured” to work on a smaller budget, during Collider’s Producers on Producers panel at San Diego Comic Con.
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“The new regime has lowered the budgets… So we’re doing a much smaller version", Lee stated during the panel. “It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, big project.”
Even with the reduced budget, director Francis Lawrence (best known for his work onThe Hunger Gamesfilms and the 2007 movieI Am Legend) is still attached to direct.
This isn’t anything new for theBioShockfranchise however, as a previous film adaptation ran into issues and was subsequently cancelled back in 2014.
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The previous filmwas cancelledbecause Levine “didn’t want to see it done in a way that I didn’t think was right”.
Levine also stated that “It was saying I don’t need to compromise - how many times in life do you not need to compromise?”
Unfortunately it seems Netflix’s adaptation has compromised, at least where its budget is concerned. Plenty of films have succeeded in spite of smaller budgets however, so there’s still hope yet.
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There’s currently no set release date for the film, so we’ll simply have to wait and see how it all pans out.
Topics:Bioshock,2K Games
