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Title: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Trippy on May 09, 2008, 03:15:41 PM "Pirates" maker to turn "BioShock" game into film (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/film_nm/bioshock_dc)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong. The movie will be made by Universal Pictures, a unit of NBC Universal owned by General Electric Co, and John Logan, the screenwriter behind "Gladiator" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," was in talks to pen the script, Take-Two said. "Gore is an avid video gamer and true fan of 'BioShock'. That was extremely important to us in deciding to move forward with this project," Christoph Hartmann, president of Take-Two's 2K Games label, said in a statement. Take-Two did not disclose financial terms of the deal or other details, such as when the film would be released. The company is the target of a $2 billion takeover bid by rival game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. Released last August for Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 game console, "BioShock" won praise for its complex story, haunting art deco atmosphere and creepy characters such as Big Daddies and Little Sisters. "BioShock" has sold more than 2 million copies and Take-Two is working on a sequel. The "BioShock" movie deal is the latest sign of the growing importance of video games in popular culture. Earlier this week, Take-Two said its "Grand Theft Auto 4" criminal action game racked up more than $500 million in global sales in its first week. That handily topped Hollywood's biggest film debut, Verbinski's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," which pulled in $406 million in global box office receipts in its first six days. Microsoft made headlines when it signed "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to produce a movie adaptation of its hit "Halo" video game, but the project was put on hold in 2006 when financial backers Universal and 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp pulled out of the deal. Reuters/Nielsen Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Lantyssa on May 09, 2008, 09:01:28 PM Mod Fail! (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=6504.msg446928#msg446928) ;D
Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Trippy on May 09, 2008, 09:11:14 PM How did this get in here? I could've sworn I posted it to PC/Console gaming.
Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Lantyssa on May 09, 2008, 09:18:40 PM This board acts funny. I thought I did the same in PnP and it wound up in "But is it Fun?".
(Though mine was an easier one to actually mess up on. I'll maintain it was this board if it helps your case.) Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: rk47 on May 10, 2008, 12:33:57 AM Well, screw the Halo movie but Bioshock should be more interesting as a movie than a FPS game imo. But honestly, after finishing the game, it'd be hard to be surprised by the plot anymore.
Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Azazel on May 10, 2008, 12:34:28 AM Did they tone down the retarded DRM yet?
Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Tebonas on May 10, 2008, 05:28:19 AM Sort of, after you watched it you have to pay a monthly fee. If you forget a payment they flash you with one of those Flashy Thingies (http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t64/Coyoteesharptongue/mib-1.jpg) to let you forget the details of the movie.
Title: Re: BioShock movie in the works Post by: Sky on May 12, 2008, 06:20:53 AM Did they tone down the retarded DRM yet? Did it ever bite you in the ass? DRM sucks, but if they're going to do it, at least they're doing it in a way that doesn't inconvenience most users, I have a hard time seeing the problem in that. Maybe if there were fewer people here torrenting the shit out of all kinds of media, there wouldn't be so much retarded DRM.For future reference, retarded DRM = Starforce, not the shit Bioshock used. |