Gore Verbinski said he 'loved' working on the BioShock movie
Videogame adaptations have been prominent lately, and older, aborted projects still attract attention — among them Gore Verbinski's BioShock movie that never reached the screen.
Verbinski told fans in a Reddit AMA that he "loved this project when we were getting close to making it at Universal. I was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect and definitely keep it hard R with the Little Sisters, and the 'choices' the protagonist makes… and the consequences."
He said he and writer John Logan had worked out a way to include both endings and that he was eager to "bring that to the big screen and really fucking with people’s heads," adding that he had "some great designs for the Big Daddies and the entire underwater demented art-deco aesthetic."
Verbinski concluded that "every year I hear something about the project, but I'm not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed," while a separate BioShock adaptation is currently being developed at Netflix.