It's
unfortunate that the BioShock movie never took off, because at one point, it
was looking like very smooth sailing. The film had a budget of $200 million,
and with Pirates director Gore Verbinski on board, what could go wrong?
As
it happens – EVERYTHING!
BioShock:
The Movie has taken a sizable budget cut and Verbinski has also left the
project which pretty much leaves us in limbo about the whole thing. While
speaking at a BAFTA event in London earlier this week, Ken Levine explained why
he thinks the project didn't work out -- and the culprit may actually surprise
you: "There was a deal in place and it was actually in production at
Universal, and Gore Verbinski was directing it. And what happened was -- this
is my theory -- it's a very big movie and Gore was very excited about it and he
wanted to make a very dark, what he would call a 'hard-rated' horror film -- an
R-rated film with a lot of blood. Then Watchmen came out -- and I really liked
Watchmen -- but it didn't do well for whatever reason and the studio got cold
feet about making an R-rated $200 million film."
He explained
that Universal "brought another director in and I didn't really see the
match there -- 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." Levine said he ultimately didn't want to "see
it done in a way I didn't think was right."
(story
via: EDGE Online)
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