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Adding to their growing list of video game adaptations, Netflix has taken a further step forward in bringing the cinematicBioshockto the big screen. Netflix seems intent on getting as many video game properties as they can, with their recent attempt atResident Evilbeing critically panned, and their upcoming Playstation adaptation ofHorizon: Zero Dawngetting their showrunner in Steve Blackman ofUmbrella Academyfame.
One of the more cinematic games, Bioshock has an incredible story ripe for the big screen and it seems Netflix has realized that. Before we all get excited though, it’s still a ways off, so we won’t be seeing Rapture just yet.
Anyone that loves a good story in their video games should have or will have played the seminalBioshock,the 2007 sci-fi shooter from 2K Games. Players end up in a shipwreck, floating across a tumultuous sea, before landing at a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean. Thankful for solid land and relative safety, it’s quickly obvious the place we choose to survive isn’t a place to survive at all.
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Rapture itself is the main character of the game, a sprawling subterranean city under the waves of the ocean above. Created as a utopia for the brightest and best to think and invent, it quickly succumbs to the same things all civilizations do in one regard or another; drugs, violence, and a need for rule. The story is top-notch and for a long time was considered the benchmark for story-driven games, at least before the likes ofThe Last of UsandRed Dead Redemption 2came out, anyhow.
Featuring a speechless protagonist was a brave choice in a world of games that gave the player speech choices, but it proved an astute one, affording the player more time to drink in the surroundings and its inhabitants, rather than worried about how we’d react or what we’d say in the moment.
“Would you kindly?” – Andrew Ryan
Still, a phrase that’ll trigger all sorts of flashbacks to the game, it further points to how good the story of the game is fifteen years on, and how Netflix has got a lot on its hands to deliver a faithful adaptation.
Bioshock Signs Director And Writer
The streaming giant recently announced they’ve landed their talent for both the directing of the film and the scribe writing it.Hunger Gamesfranchise director Francis Lawrence has been tapped up to direct, with the idea being he’ll finish up the next installment of the franchise inTheHunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,and then jump straight into filmingBioshock.
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It’s going to be written by Michael Green, no stranger to source material adaptations, as he pennedLogan,and the recent sequel toBladerunner, Bladerunner 2049.Plot details are largely unknown at the moment, with it not being written that’s not a surprise, but the main question fans will have will be whether we’re going to be going to Rapture, from the first two games, or the less good, but still enticing Columbia from the third game,Bioshock: Infinite.
Slap an R-rating on it, give me a Big Daddy marauding towards the screen in typical Bioshock terror, and you’ll make plenty of us happy. Scared. But happy.
Source: ComicBook
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Luke Addison
Former Head of Gaming
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Luke Addison is a Former Video Game Critic and Gaming Editor. As likely to be caught listening to noughties rock as he is watching the latest blockbuster cinema release, Luke is the quintessential millennial wistfully wishing after a forgotten era of entertainment. Also a diehard Chelsea fan, for his sins.
