Netflix is teaming with Take-Two Interactive to develop a film adaptation and potential cinematic universe based on the critically acclaimed video game franchise “BioShock”.
No writer or filmmaker is on board at this time, but the partnership deal has reportedly been in the works for almost a year. Vertigo Entertainment and Take-Two will produce.
First released in 2007 by 2K Games, the game unfolds in the 1960s as the survivor of a mysterious plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean discovers the undersea city of Rapture – an Art Deco-styled fallen scientific utopia consumed years before by its own ambitions and now the dominion of crazed genetic experiments.
The game sold millions since its initial release and was followed by two sequels, the second of which expanded to the Neoclassical-style sky city of Columbia. Both the first and third games routinely make lists of best video games ever created.
A previous film adaptation was set up years ago at Universal with the original “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski attached to helm. However, the big-budget and R-rating req for the project made it unfeasible.
Source: THR
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