The BioShock movie has long been in development. With delays and budgetary concerns, there is worry that BioShock might go the way of Halo. Gore Verbinski, however, remains optimistic about the project. Verbinski, producer on the project recently sat down with IGN to discuss the movie.
“We’re working trying to make it. The problem with BioShock was: R-rated movie, underwater, horror. It’s a really expensive R-rated movie,” he said. “So we’re trying to figure out a way working with [director] Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to get the budget down and still keep so it’s true to the core audience, you know? The thing is it has to be R, a hard R.”
The recent release of a somewhat mediocre Prince of Persia movie does little to dissuade Verbinski. Does he think Persia will affect BioShock? “No, I think BioShock’s a rare one because it’s actually a great story,” he says. “Me? I don’t want to make movies based on video games, but BioShock’s the one Oedipal, crazy kind of – it’s just got really good bones, and we’re really trying to figure out a way to make it work.”
"We don't want to dumb it down, we don't want to make it PG-13. We want to keep it really edgy, and it's a huge bill," Verbinski insisted.
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July 1, 2010
When done very well I have seen some truly awesome, and Edgy, PG-13 movies, LOTR rings a bell. ^_-