Back in 2010, director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The Ring) was attached to a film adaptation of the popular video game, 'BioShock,' which centers upon a broken down underwater utopia that became riddled with drug addicts and violence.
Verbinski is no longer attached to the project, and when speaking with Coming Soon, he revealed what it was that drove him away. "I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating," he said. "Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, "Jesus Christ!"... It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the pricetag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that pricetag."
Commenting on what could have been, Verbinski said that 'BioShock "would be a great movie to do in 3D. I'd like to go into that world wearing a pair of glasses. I think in general, gaming is perfect for 3D. Anything where you're the protagonist. The kid in 'The Shining' on the big wheel, going around corridors. That's what 3D is perfect for. To make people feel on-edge."
IMDB currently has the 'BioShock' film listed as coming out sometime in 2013. Perhaps it will coinicide with a new video game release in the series. For now, the project appears to be at a standstill with no director, scriptwriters or actors attached.
Source: Coming Soon (via Cinema Blend)
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