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Gore Verbinski: Why His 'Bioshock' Film Didn't Happen
In a recent interview, director Gore Verbinski offered updates on his current film projects (including 'The Lone Ranger' with Johnny Depp as Tonto) and took a few moments to discuss why his film adaptation of the popular 'Bioshock' video game never quite got off the ground. While fans of the popular video game series may be disappointed to hear that Verbinski won't be bringing the Big Daddies to the silver screen, once they hear his reasoning behind it I think they'll be relieved:
Verbinksi explains:Basically, in a film landscape of bloodless Wolverine movies and teen-friendly Die Hard sequels, the reason why his Bioshock adaptation never saw the light of day was because he refused to soften the content of the film solely to appeal to a wider audience - and for that, we salute him.
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Comment by LunaticLMD on February 17, 2011 at 2:59pm -
I would have preferred a prequel film to the first Bioshock game about how Andrew Ryan built the city and the utopia crumbling around them.
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Comment by The Dubya on February 17, 2011 at 2:07pm
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Comment by mjtfreeze on February 17, 2011 at 12:42pm -
Die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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Comment by h8rofcrapmovies on February 16, 2011 at 3:40pm -
i was so hyped about this but now that i read why it makes alot of sense he was gonna make a great video game movie and i really think this had a whole lot of potential
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Comment by Cthulhu R'lyeh on February 16, 2011 at 1:44pm -
Marobot, I am usually one of those people that doesnt care about the rating as long as the movie is good, but Bioshock should definitely be an R rated movie. The enemies you faced in the game were surgically mutilated and one of the boss fights was a guy who cut different faces together. Not to mention an artist who makes art out of dead people. Even if you make it without gore, it is still much more creepy compared to Nolans PG 13 movies.
While on the subject, I respect Gore Verbinski. He has the ability to turn the most uninteresting film idea into something entertaining (Mouse trap, Pirates of the Caribbean 1). Not to mention a nice remake of The Ring. But even with him directing it, I doubt you can squeeze more than one story out of Bioshock and we have already played that story.
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Comment by whitesamjackson on February 16, 2011 at 12:15pm -
good man. A man who would rather give it up than disappoint the fans
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Comment by MPerce on February 16, 2011 at 11:51am -
Verbinski, you have earned the love and respect of nerds everywhere with how much you care about this project. Any other producer would've just shat a crappy movie out, knowing it would make some cash from us die-hards. But you didn't care about that. You wanted to make a good movie.
That is awesome.
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Comment by AEGIS on February 16, 2011 at 8:31am -
Makes perfect sense to me. If it's not going to be R than I'd rather just not have it.
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Comment by Mr. Bubbles on February 16, 2011 at 8:28am -
I respect him for not being willing to fuck up one of my favorite games in order to make a quick buck. PG-13 Bioshock would have been terrible.
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Comment by MaroBot on February 16, 2011 at 7:03am -
Bioshock always was more "creepy" than really gory and scary, and since Chris Nolan got away with PG-13 for Dark Knight, Verbinsky could do a decent adaptation within a PG-13 rating. But as much as I am disapointed bout that, its hard not to admire his integrity...yet im kinda worried that if he wont make it, someone else will...and that someone else might not give a crap THAT much bout staying faithful to the source material.
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