Starvation Video games director to helm Netflix BioShock film

Netflix introduced on Thursday that Francis Lawrence, identified for his work on the Starvation Video games sequence and 2005’s I Am Legend, shall be directing an adaption of 2007’s BioShock. Logan and Blade Runner 2049 screenwriter Michael Inexperienced can also be connected to pen the movie’s script.

BioShock hardly wants an introduction. Developed in 2007 by Irrational Video games (briefly below the identify 2K Boston) and 2K Australia, the first-person sci-fi horror shooter positioned gamers within the function of Jack, a person who discovers the town of Rapture, a dystopian Artwork Deco metropolis on the backside of the ocean impressed by the Objectivist writings of Ayn Rand, after surviving a disastrous airplane crash over the Atlantic Ocean. There, Jack should cope with the genetically-altered denizens of the dying metropolis as he searches for a method house.

The sport was a crucial and business hit, happening to encourage two follow-ups within the type of 2010’s BioShock 2 and 2013’s BioShock Infinite, and serving as one of the vital iconic video games of its technology.

Plans for a live-action BioShock movie date way back to 2008, when the sport’s writer Take-Two Interactive introduced that Common Studios could be producing a film based mostly on the sport directed by Gore Verbinski with a script by John Logan.

That movie was confirmed to be canceled in 2017 by Ken Levine, the sport’s director, who cited the disappointing business turnout of 2009’s Watchmen and Verbinski’s insistence on an “R” ranking, after which Verbinski’s departure, as elements in each his and the studio’s determination to maneuver on from the venture.