While everyone was waiting for the announcement of a new BioShock game (nine years after the last installment on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC), Take Two Interactive, 2K Games and Netflix surprise everyone with the announcement of a project around the license on the streaming platform.
Bioshock is coming to Netflix
As usual, the Netflix platform has just dropped a bomb without giving too much information and of course no release date except “soon”. We thus learn that “Netflix, 2K and Take-Two Interactive are teaming up to produce a film adaptation of the acclaimed BioShock video game franchise“. For now, we’ll have to make do with that.
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— Netflix France (@NetflixFR) February 15, 2022
This is not the first time that an adaptation around the Bioshock license has been announced. In 2008, a Universal-produced film with Gore Verbinski leading the project was also confirmed. Unfortunately, the feature film will never see the light of day following a bad agreement between the director and the production company. However, Universal had put the means with a beautiful envelope of 200 million dollars to produce the project.
The origin of the tensions concerned the script, which was to be classified “R” in the USA (thus prohibited for unaccompanied children under 17), while Universal wanted to propose a more “nice” scenario. The objective of the production company was thus to ensure their backs to offer a PG-13 film (not recommended for children under 12) in theaters.
The basic script was written by John Logan, to whom we owe the scripts for Gladiator or even James Bond 007 Specter and seemed very faithful to the original 2007 game. Unfortunately, the project will never see the light of day.
We just have to wait to wait for the first information around the Netflix adaptation of Bioshock to know first if the streaming platform opts for a feature film or a series. As a reminder, the fourth opus of Bioshock was officially confirmed by Take Two Interactive in December 2019.