The combination of Bioshock with Guillermo del Toro's signature visual and thematic flair has too much potential for brilliance not to eventually happen. The universe will see to it.

I have to agree that del Toro would be a wonderful choice to direct a Bioshock mmovie. He is a man who is willing to take real artistic challenges in his movies and almost always pulls them off beautifully. I'll definately keep my toes crossed on this one!

If he directed it, that would be great. I can't really see anyone else doing both fan service and making a great movie at the same time.

Btw, the comments for me are absolutely messed up. I'll post but not see it, and right now it doesn't even say I'm signed in. I click on pages and will see comments disappear that I saw three clicks before. I don;t get it.

someone sure loves his italics :)

Alfonso Cuaron should direct every movie

Hey Brian,, you forgot one of these .

Anywho, I'd love to see Alfonso Cuaron take apart BioShock. My money would be his money.

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams) could do a good job too.

As long as the Bioshock script consists of 3 random separate stories that interconnect at the end inexplicably, that is XD

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I don't think Bioshock would work as a movie. Yeah, it's a great setting, but all the gameplay factors, that would be missing in a movie, would make it rather meh for me.

Some games can't be turned into movies because they only work as a game. This especially affects FPS mainly because you spend 99% of the time alone fighting aliens, monsters or soldiers and so on.

I'm a big fan of Del Toro.

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Man, Guillermo del Toro is one of the few directors I can see making an unsucky BioShock flick.

Christ, a BioShock movie would be unreasonably stupid any way you cut it. He's really one of the only names you can see helming such a project, though? That just suggests to me that you don't pay much attention to the medium.

Del Toro would be one of the few to make a decent BioShock movie. I'm not sure a straight-forward adaption would work, like a lot of others have said, but one made in the same universe with a bit of creative leway if basic principles remained.

At least there's one thing we can all agree on: Mexico.

Bioshock would work in the same way as Halo - there are many great story ideas that didn't actually make it into the games themselves and can be now used by the director.

BTW I don't count the Halo games as having a great story just because additional authors would later provide well-written books on it.

If I did, I would have to count Final Fantasy X-2 as actually likeable just because of Monty Oum.

Peeople also said there was no chance in hell Sin City could ever be reproduced or remain faithful to the comic book series and voila, look at it. It just comes down to truly passionate people who want it to succeed and be the best that it truly be on an artistic scale.

I loved the Hellboy movie alot if not just for the visuals and action. I wonder how an FPS movie look like if DOOM is any indication then I'll have to pass. But like De Toro said if the story is good then maybe. Com'on Toro giv it a shot, please...!

I'm curious to hear Del Toro's interpretation of Bioshock. He tends to describe very articulately everything like hardcore porn during his after film Q&A's. It's quite hilarious. Even right down to Blade 2's vaginal inspiration for the Reapers.

<3 Del Toro

@kylo4: Eh I dunno, you're absolutely right about Sin City, but there was a rich vein of story to tap into. Bioshock was mostly about atmosphere, the story per se was a bit odd, particularly after *ommitted due to spoiler* happened. It might work, but the whole make up of the story would need to change, and I'm not sure I care to have the story retold to me differently (I can just enjoy Bioshock again). That being said if they do it they need to think OUTSIDE the box, and stop trying to just create set pieces from games, as this always leads to disaster (by disaster I mean generally rubbish films).

@ParaParaKing: Yeah, but here's thing thing: why not just completely DITCH the Bioshock story? I think we can all agree that the story wouldn't work very well as a movie (because the big plot twist would lose its impact), but what if someone just made a movie set in Rapture? I've like a noir-ish crime movie or something. Or maybe a business drama (maybe Andrew Ryan could be the main characte?). There's lots of potential.

@mescalineeyes: That's because real men use italics when typing out the titles of large works (in this case films).

@Spiffyness: I completely agree! Considering some of his past films, I'd bet Del Toro would tell the story from the Little Sister's point of view, or something crazy like that. He'd have us fall in love with Big Daddy, only to have him destroyed and the sister harvested for Adam!

The words that concern me with regards to this article are "Hellboy director".

Hellboy is definately the worst film ever made and looking through his list of filmson IMDB im even more concerned, its full of mediocre 'action' movies.

Bioshock needs directing by a proven 'pshychological thriller' type director not some guy who likes comic books and explosions.

James Wan or M. Night Shyamalan or someone of that ilk would possibly do it justice though.

@Agies: hey, back when I commented, the entire article was in italics.

Seriously, you're identifying Del Toro as "Hellboy director" as if that's something to be proud of? This dude is so overhyped. Mimic? Blade 2? Pan's Labyrinth was quite well done, but very overrated, perhaps you should just go with "future Hobbit director Guillermo Del Toro"...

I think the events leading up to the game would make a better movie than the actual game. Being able to watch this budding undersea community and its politics self destruct under its own egomaniacal weight.

Honestly a feature film length Bioshock movie would be horrible. I'd just love to see high quality webisodes detailing the fall of Rapture.

I don't like bioshock, but Del Toro is 100% meh as a creative artist and as a director. He doesn't suck, but he is not good either.

@teeps1981: I can't recall an explosion in Pan's Labrynth. In fact, I'd say that movie fits the bill to a "T" for "psychological thriller"

While I don't know about a Bioshock movie, because it's pretty much atmosphere that makes that game amazing ... Guillermo del Toro is the man.

@teeps1981:

Shyamalan version would be with Bruce Willis who speaks barely in the whole movie and has no clue what's going on.

@Bon5ai: What's not to like about Bioshock.

What about Vincenzo Natali?

I think a good movie could be made around the events leading to the downfall of Rapture. Basically everything you hear in the audio recordings during the game. The game itself would suck as a movie. But there is a lot of backstory that could be made into an awesome flick. GO FOR IT.

@XbhaskarX:

Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, and Chronos are all unequivocally brilliant films.

There was meddling from the studio on Mimic, and if you can't have fun watching movies like Blade 2 and Hellboy then something is wrong with you.

@The Wreckard:

Hellboy was a pretty crappy movie, and Mimic/Blade 2 were nothing to be proud of. Unfortunately I've never seen those other three you've listed but if his original movies are better than his adaptations of other material I'd much rather he keep his hands away from Bioshock.

Oh please don't let M. Night Shyamalan have anything to do with this movie. Knowing him, at the end of the entire movie we'd find out someone was actually just playing the game on the tv and none of it was real.

If nothing else, Del Toro does have a great visual style.

I wasn't down at all with Hellboy, and I'm not really sure what else the guy's been involved in. It'd be nice to see a well done Bioshock movie, but I'm going to bet my life they'd kill it. I've never, ever, ever, ever seen a GREAT/perfect/incredible game to movie adaptation. And I'd have to see them do that to Bioshock.

Whips out script... goes to post office, oh uhhh, where do I send that to then>?

As long as it isn't Boll, I'm happy.

Although a Bioshock movie by Del Toro is tempting I been hoping to see him taking the direction of Lovecraft's "At the mountain of madness" movie.
I need a GOOD Cthulhu mythos movie.

I honestly hope that Bioshock never gets made into a movie. Why does it need to be? Why isn't it good enough as a game? There seems to be this widespread perception that a game franchise must have its apotheosis in cinema, that just being a game is somehow lesser than being a movie.

I think Bioshock, with a few plot modifications, could be an AMAZING movie. Here's hoping they don't fuck it up ...

Leave Del Toro alone he is going to be busy filming the two new Hobbit movies. Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone were fabulous. I didn't like Hellboy, but I have never seen a comic book related anything that I did like.

I suspect there are inherent limitations glued to transfering FPS storytelling to movie story telling. First, you have little to no characterization of the actual protagonist. The interest in the story is an interest in characters like Andrew Ryan, GLADos, and Cortana, rather than an interest in Jack, Chell, or the Master Chief. Secondly, games in general are more like novels in that they let us move through the world at our own pace. Movies force us through the world. Uniquely, one of the pleasures of video gaming is being able to explore the fictional world, and this just doesn't transfer to movies.