By In a disappointing update at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, producer Roy Lee revealed that Netflix’s planned “BioShock” film is still in development – but has been hit by budget cuts.
Lee says the film entered development at Netflix under the previous film executive regime (namely Scott Stuber) which exited the streamer in January.
Dan Lin has since taken over and is shifting the streamer away from huge tentpole projects in favor of more modestly budgeted affairs.
As a result, Lee says: “The new regime has lowered the budgets. So we’re doing a much smaller version… It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, more epic project.”
In August 2022, filmmaker Francis Lawrence (“The Hunger Games,” “I Am Legend”) came on board to direct whilst Michael Green (“Blade Runner 2049,” “Logan”) had been hired to adapt the script. Lawrence remains attached.
First released in 2007, the first two games were set in the 1960s in the Art Deco stylings of the undersea city of Rapture – a fallen scientific objectivist utopia consumed years before by its own ambitions and lack of morality and regulation. It is now the dominion of crazed genetic experiments.
The third was set in the 1910s in the Neoclassical-styled sky city of Columbia, a society on the opposite extreme – one founded on theocratic megalomania, fueled by religious dogma, and fundamentally riddled with issues of bigotry, inequality and corruption.
The franchise has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide across its three titles and their various editions and collections.
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