source:
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/03/12/did-watchmen-kill-the-bioshock-movie,
http://www.gamesradar.com/ken-levine-personally-canned-bioshock-movie/,
http://www.examiner.com/list/wreck-it-ralph-wins-best-animated-film-of-2012-at-the-40th-annual-annie-awards?cid=db_articles
Movies based on video games generally bomb hard. One only needs to watch "Super Mario Brothers" or any Uwe Boll movie to see this. With that said, the proposed Bioshock movie looked to be heading in the right direction. It had a budget of $200 million and Pirates of the Carribean director Gore Verbinski attached to the project. Unfortunately, budget cuts and Verbinski leaving the project saw this endeavor ultimately fail.
Ken Levine explained that the project failed because Universal studios got cold feet about making the proposed R-rated film after the "failure" of the film Watchmen. While Universal did bring in a new director, Levine said that he didn't think they were a good fit and killed the project. He also stated that he didn't want the project to be done in a way that he didn't think was right.
This was a good call on Levine's part. Although a Bioshock movie would be awesome given it's rich setting and characters, doing it in a way that wasn't right would hurt not only Irrational Games and the Bioshock franchise, but it would be another nail in the coffin for video game movies. Perhaps in the future, Bioshock and other video games could be adapted into movies. The recent success of "Wreck-It Ralph" shows that Hollywood can make a good video game movie. Now if only people like Uwe Boll stopped making video game movies...
-RJ Benavidez
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