Gore Verbinski Goes Into Bioshock
This entry was posted on 5/9/2008 6:00 AM and is filed under Casting About.
So a day after an interview for a forthcoming piece with
Uwe Boll in which
the German filmmaker jokingly talked about the possibility of adapting the videogame Bioshock comes word, via
Variety, that Gore Verbinski — he of the bloated
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise — has signed to bring the hit videogame to the big screen, in a big deal for Universal.
Bioshock publisher Take-Two Interactive is getting a multi-million-dollar advance against gross points on the picture, believed to be
the biggest videogame deal since 2005, when Microsoft scored $5 million against 10 percent of the gross for
the since abandoned big screen adaptation of the best-selling
Halo series.
Aviator scribe John Logan, meanwhile, is in talks to pen the
Bioshock screenplay, presumably without consulting Boll.
