After years in development hell and hopes that it would be adapted, Netflix found its director for its Bioshock movie with Francis Lawrence, the director of the Hunger Games franchise, including its upcoming prequel, as reported by Deadline. The report also details that Michael Green (The Jungle Cruise) will pen the film.
It was previously announced that the Bioshock movie would find a home on Netflix. The streaming service looked hard for A-list talent to take on the project based on the Take-Two Interactive and Irrational Games video game. Now, after over a decade of hearing about a possible film adaption of the popular 2007 video game, the ball is rolling for it to come to fruition.
Lawrence is currently working on the Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Once that has wrapped, and the script is finished, preproduction on the Bioshock adaption will begin.
Bioshock movie finally happening with Hunger Games director, Francis Lawrence, attached
Bioshock was developed by Irrational Games. It was set in the underwater city called Rapture. You come across the city that was made to be a utopia, but you arrive right when all hell breaks loose as people have gone mad and started getting bloodthirsty. The sequel was also set in the city, and its third game, subtitled Infinite, was the last as it went to the skies for another dystopia called Columbia. The franchise, which included bundles, remasters, and ports, has sold over 39 million copies.
Green is also known for writing Death on the Nile, Logan, Blade Runner 2049, Murder on the Orient Express, and American Gods. Lawrence, when he isn’t adapting Hunger Games books, has directed music videos for huge pop stars and, most recently, the Apple series See with Jason Momoa.
Roy Lee, Cameron MacConomy, and Strauss Zelnick will produce the Bioshock adaption.
