Netflix have turned to The Hunger Games and Slumberland director Francis Lawrence to take the controller for their adaptation of critically acclaimed video game series BioShock.
Back in February it was reported that Netflix were partnering with video game company Take-Two Interactive, and its game publisher subsidiary, 2K, in order to finally bring the world of Bioshock to the big-screen, and now Deadline has revealed that the much sought after project has landed on the desk of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director Lawrence, who will work from a script written by Logan and Blade Runner 2049‘s Michael Green.
Of course, we’ve been here before with Bioshock, as it was once a major project for Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, before Universal pulled the plug back in an age when videogame adaptations weren’t the excuse to print money that they are today (see Sonic the Hedgehog, Uncharted, Pokémon Detective Pikachu).
The long-running franchise consists of three main games, BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite released in 2007, 2010, and 2013 respectively. The first two take place in the 60s in the fictional underwater city of Rapture, whereas, Infinite takes place aboard the floating city of Columbia. The initial runs of each game has sold more than 39 million copies globally, and a fourth BioShock is currently in development.
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