Post by Dan @ 04:00pm 30/06/10 | 15 Comments
His musings are a little peculiar as while it sounds like the film they want to make for BioShock might have some of the right stuff, other comments seem to indicate that they're not really familiar with many decent video games.
"No, I think BioShock's a rare one because it's actually a great story," he said. "Me? I don't want to make movies based on videogames, but BioShock's the one Oedipal, crazy kind of -- it's just got really good bones, and we're really trying to figure out a way to make it work."BioShock had a great story and all, but to suggest that's a rare quality among modern games is rather discrediting to so many other awesome narrative-driven titles of recent years.
Besides, almost every mediocre video-game to film adaptation so far has almost completely discarded the game's storyline anyway -- a factor that many see as their biggest failure.
"We're working trying to make it. The problem with BioShock was: R-rated movie, underwater, horror. It's a really expensive R-rated movie," he explained. "So we're trying to figure out a way working with [director] Juan Carlos [Fresnadillo] to get the budget down and still keep so it's true to the core audience, you know? The thing is it has to be R, a hard R."Don't get me wrong, I'm all for good hard-R movies, but is that really essential to something like BioShock, given the game was rated MA15+ here in Australia? The Dark Knight achieved success as a PG-13 film with a similar tone to what most gamers would expect from a BioShock film, is it really necessary for the subaquatic adventure to be a gruesome slasher if the rating comes at the cost of the films effects budget? This isn't Left 4 Dead or Deadspace. What do you think?
"We don't want to dumb it down, we don't want to make it PG-13. We want to keep it really edgy, and it's a huge bill," Verbinski insisted.
28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is still attached to direct BioShock.
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Posted 04:10pm 30/6/10
I don't see the need for hardcore R rated production though. You could pull it off as an MA15+ movie with some effort and still make it pretty damn good. I suppose it's up to the movie makers...
Posted 04:17pm 30/6/10
Posted 04:32pm 30/6/10
I will be extremely disappointed if this turns into a gore horror/slasher film, because that will not do justice to the extremely beautiful and rich atmosphere that Bioshock created.
Posted 04:41pm 30/6/10
Posted 04:57pm 30/6/10
Posted 05:16pm 30/6/10
Posted 05:27pm 30/6/10
My understanding of their wacky scheme was as such
USA.......AUS
G...........G
PG..... ...PG
PG13
.............. M
R
.............. MA
HardR
NC17... R
tho i think nc17 is now Unrated?
Posted 05:32pm 30/6/10
A s***load of MA 15+ movies in aus get R ratings in the US, meaning that it will probably get an MA rating over here
Posted 06:18pm 30/6/10
Also, Bioshock had a s*** story. It was the SS2 square peg shoved into the round hole that was a retro Sci-Fi look.
Most of the game mechanics were basically copy and pasted from SS2 and a story was hacked up around them and it shows. Instead of the AI controlling them, they all went crazy. The adam did it. Ugh.
Posted 06:46pm 30/6/10
Posted 07:42pm 30/6/10
Hell yeah, Half Life would make an awesome movie. Isn't the original Aliens "R"? I think a decent HL movie would be similar.
Posted 07:51pm 30/6/10
Posted 08:07pm 30/6/10
Just checked my collection and Alien is M rated.
So something like Alien with a chestbusting scene can still be a M then a BioShock movie can certainly be lower on the rating scale.
Posted 09:16pm 30/6/10
The smartest thing would be to make a film about the downfall of the city because the setting is what was truly brilliant about bioshock (and the setting is what created the atmosphere)
Posted 09:15pm 30/6/10