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  • May. 10th, 2008 at 1:29 AM
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"Pirates" maker to turn "BioShock" game into film

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O) said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong.

The movie will be made by Universal Pictures, a unit of NBC Universal owned by General Electric Co (GE.N), and John Logan, the screenwriter behind "Gladiator" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," was in talks to pen the script, Take-Two said.

"Gore is an avid video gamer and true fan of 'BioShock'. That was extremely important to us in deciding to move forward with this project," Christoph Hartmann, president of Take-Two's 2K Games label, said in a statement.

Take-Two did not disclose financial terms of the deal or other details, such as when the film would be released. The company is the target of a $2 billion takeover bid by rival game publisher Electronic Arts Inc (ERTS.O).

Released last August for Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Xbox 360 game console, "BioShock" won praise for its complex story, haunting art deco atmosphere and creepy characters such as Big Daddies and Little Sisters.

"BioShock" has sold more than 2 million copies and Take-Two is working on a sequel.

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[info]ersigh wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 09:01 am (UTC)
That could be quite rad.
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[info]boffo wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 07:29 pm (UTC)
I don't hate this the way I hate most video game movies. BioShock has an actual story, so there's something real there for them to adapt. Most video game movies are trying to make a film out of "Shoot anything that moves" or "Press buttons as fast as possible in the right combinations," which is why they're so terrible.
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[info]jon3 wrote:
May. 12th, 2008 03:58 pm (UTC)
That is what I was thinking. There's an actual story arc behind the game. The question is how badly hollywood will mangle it to pieces due to complete lack of clue.
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[info]boffo wrote:
May. 12th, 2008 04:44 pm (UTC)
Certainly *any* film adaptation is likely to suck, because making a decent movie is so incredibly hard, and made more unlikely by the fact that there are so many people in Hollywood who don't get it. This is true whether the adaptation is of a book, comic book, TV show, video game, or breakfast cereal.

But when they start with an actual plot, a decent movie is *possible*. That puts it far ahead of most video game (and breakfast cereal) adaptations.
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