The BioShock movie appears to be mired in development hell, having seen little substantial progress in the past couple years. While Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) was originally attached to the project but left, he explained why in a recent interview.
“I couldn’t really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating,” he explained, “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, he added. We just didn’t have any takers on an R-rated movie with that price tag.”
While Verbinski’s recent Rango was not converted to 3D, he thinks that BioShock would be perfect to show stereoscopic. “[BioShock] would be a great movie to do in 3D. I’d like to go into that world wearing a pair of glasses, he said. I think in general, gaming is perfect for 3D. Anything where you’re the protagonist. The kid in ‘The Shining’ on the big wheel, going around corridors. That’s what 3D is perfect for. To make people feel on-edge.”
Source: ComingSoon.net {link no longer active}
