It’s been a long time coming, but a Bioshock movie is finally happening. Once a pet project of Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, the film has landed at Netflix where it will now be headed by The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence.
Deadline reports that Lawrence has been hired to direct Bioshock from a script by Logan writer Michael Green. The hit video game franchise by 2K is set in an alternate retrofuture version of 1960 in the underwater city of Rapture. Built in the 1940s by business tycoon Andrew Ryan, it was meant to be a utopia away from an increasingly oppressive government. The discovery of a genetic substance called ADAM leads to the emergence of horrific creatures, human mutation, and the downfall of Rapture.
It’s a busy time for Lawrence. Not only has he returned to The Hunger Games with prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but his fantasy film Slumberland hits Netflix in November.
