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.