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Which was weird, having been a screenwriter going around begging to rewrite any script to being in a position where youre killing a movie that you worked so much on, he added. It was saying, You know what? I dont need to compromise. I had the [BioShock] world, and I didnt what to see it done in a way I didnt think was right.
BioShock movie could be back in development
The studio Levine founded, Irrational Games–developer of the original BioShock and BioShock Infinite–wasshut down in February. Levine and a select number of employees planned to start a new venture under the 2K Games umbrella that focus[ed] entirely on replayable narrative. The BioShock property, meanwhile, remains in the hands of 2K.
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After being shut down altogether several years ago, theBioShockmovie may again be moving forward, as evidenced by several domain names registered last month by Sony Pictures.
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Kotaku raises the possibility that Levine himself could be involved with writing a script for the movie. He is currently working on a script for the newLogans Runmovie, and he hassaid he would considerworking on a BioShock screenplay following the completion ofBioShock Infinite.
BioShock movie domain name registrations have been discovered.
Earlier this year, concept artist Jim Martinpublished concept arthe had created for the BioShock movie, providing us with some sense of what had been envisioned when Universal was involved with the movies production.
The domain names, as found byKotaku, include , , and bio-shock.net. All three list Sony Pictures in their registration information. Sony was never publicly involved with previous attempts to develop a BioShock film, but these registrations suggest it may now be looking to do so.
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Back in 2008,Pirates of the CaribbeandirectorGore Verbinski was set to directa BioShock film being financed by Universal Pictures. A year later, reports circulated that Verbinski wasthinking of backing out, which he did afterproduction was halteddue to concerns regarding thebudget and the R ratingVerbinski wanted.28 Weeks Laterdirector Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was thentapped to direct, but the movie again fell apart, with BioShock creative director Ken Levine stating last year thathe was responsible for ultimately axing the project.
And so they brought another director in, and I didnt really see the match there, Levine said. Take-Two is one of those companies that gives a lot of trust to their creative people, and so they said to me, If you want to kill it Ken, kill it. And I killed it.
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