mattbrimer

I doubt the Bioshock movie will be any good but, hey, who knows?

And I don't give a shit what anyone says, the Silent Hill movie was great.

OMGitsDarkMatter

diodegrey

maybe i just have a soft spot for midgets.

nikkomorocco

cheeses

understand - hollywood doesnt make films because they believe in the premise of a good story. they make films because they believe it will make money. anything they greenlight, they think will sell. being as creatively bankrupt as they have been these last ten years, we should not be hoping their scouring gaze for any and all new material falls upon videogames so they can strip X title or franchise of ideas, iconography, design, buzz, everything. this is our own piece of modern culture and entertainment, we paid our dues to create and support it, and we shouldnt hope and pray for the starving vultures of a stagnant and possibly dying industry to leech from us.

red

Draylorn

Slash3

Woden501

Rob Phelps

That being said, Gore Verbinski has other work like The Ring remake which was so-so, but definately one to check out is The Weather Man. That movie alone gives me some hope for this the Bioshock film.

marmidukestank

dgonchild

This pointless comment is brought to you by Plasmids. FUCK! BEEEEEEES!

Ghede

WTF Leigh?

Were you living under a fracking rock when Silent Hill was released?

tannhauser

shimage

hk458

scuba2steve

AdmiralNelson

hansamurai

[film.guardian.co.uk]

tossrStu

Verbinski's not very good, guys. Johnny Depp made the Pirates movies as good as they were (see: not all that great), and the Ring is definitely overrated. He's an okay audience-pleaser, but he's certainly not going to elevate the material.

EmTeeZ

ibelli

JokesJokes

SAKY

Murrytmds

I'll believe it when I see it as well. It's just not worth it to get excited over videogame movies anymore because they usually always suck (except for first mortal kombat movie I actually enjoyed that, except when sub-zero died).

ichiban1081

The absolute best we can do now is hope for the SPIRIT of the game to be carried through faithfully. I for one am STOKED to see what they come up in terms of production design. 2 hours of top notch hollywood Bioshock makeover sounds like 2 hours of non-tedious sex to me.

Sunjammer

I replay that game not for the game-play, but for the story and the atmosphere. The fact that it's interactive and rather engaging, at that, is just the icing on the very delicious cake.

Games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, even Call of Duty 4... Great stories that occasionally demand a replay, just as great movies need to be re-watched and books reread. I just don't see a movie adding anything to the experience.

Uzumaki_Kiba

Who am I?

thewisestfool

That being said, if Verbinski can make a solid adaptation (and the public in general knew it was an adaptation of a game), this could be a huge boost for the game industry. We'll see.

bornofdust

sascha23

nintend0nick

I wish they would have gotten a real director for this. The Bioshock universe deserves better than the usual summer blockbuster treatment.

TheDormouse

I completely agree, nobody in Hollywood is more qualified to make a Bioshock movie than Verbinski.

gameware

geoffcbassett

mbeck

axiomatic

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

mdgalaxy

Kanik

boopadoo

Also. the thrid Pirates sucked, why? Cause a piece of wood took out Chou Yun Fat. I call bullshit on that.

Derigor

Bicro

With the right people in place you can make an excellent film even about a mostly static, largely plot free amusement park ride. So a game dripping with atmosphere, an interesting back story and a decent plot shouldn't pose too big of a challenge.

With the right people in place.

Otherwise: House of the Dead.

What could that film have been with Tim Burton, Wes Craven or Peter Jackson at the helm...

Zazu_Yen

I thought it was freaking awesome :3

I like Bioshock, its a great game; but I don't get why its hailed as a great story and narrative, seemed a bit run of the mill to me.

coffeehair

No. If he was for quality he would have stopped after the first one. The second and third one's are gay. Though, he might be able to do good, I did like The Weather Man.

Itri

tehFluffz

I have high hopes for the film, but my expectations still remain low.

KM91

The other problem I've seen with bringing story heavy games to the 'bigscreen', is that they usually want to give the fans a 'twist' from the original story, so as to offer them something fresh, or feel that the story and narrative of a game doesn't within a cinematic context.
I'm not sure that works, unless you really can handle the 'magic'. Silent Hill did this and it felt dumbed down significantly(for me) and altered some very basic fundamentals (isolation, and simply never knowing what the 'real world was'.

I have no idea if Bioshock will be good or bad.

I will say the idea of a film based on a ride at disneyland had DISASTER written all over it, and Haunted Mansion illustrated that pretty d'rn well... so you can never tell...

Ehardergardens

SnakeCL

Yeah, I think this has potential. If it was Uwe Boll I was prepared to move to a small, deserted island and live like a castaway to avoid ANY chance of EVER seeing, which would have forced my alignment shift to Chaotic Evil.

Zazu_Yen

MSUSteve

I really hope Verbinski does a good job. Not just for making the "first great game flick" but also doing justice to the cinematic possibilities Bioshock contains.

coalhalo

And im sorry, the Silent Hill movie was cool. By far not as bad as most of the shit Uwe Boll makes. And up until the end I thought it did a good job of capturing the games feel, especially the part where the walls "skin" peeled off and the that thing came out of the bathroom stall. One of the first really scary moments in a movie since the Ring had come out.

svenhoek

It makes me picture Geoffrey Rush as Andrew Ryan, which is a remarkably pleasing image to me.

@johnny_ultimate: You're right that the story played on the the player's control and lack thereof, but I think for a movie, that could be changed to explore the passive acceptance of violence by a movie audience. The emotional thrust of the story might change, sure, but I think there's still a lot of interesting ground they could cover in a movie.

etho

Voteforme2020

no stories on the mass effect/spore DRM fiasco unless it's a discussion that can be buried in a thread about weeping millionaire video card executives..

I see just where you're coming from now kotaku.. I thought you loved games.

railskins

Er, I meant after the first Pirates movie, they sucked hard.

VicViper

my hopes for a good game movie have been crushed many times, so i really cant tell if he will succed, but i will keep an eye on it...

also, awesome tag is awesome

(俗・ ) Grey Gecko

@etho: The first Mortal Kombat movie rules, it was so bad it's good.

While I think this can work, I still think Tim Burton needs to do American McGee's Alice before we have a truly great video game movie. Although that won't happen now that Marcus Nispel is doing it. Blarg.

odyeiop

homernoy

=O

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

HAGE

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

nintend0nick

A_Knothole_Resident

sander_dutch

Agree. First Pirates of the Carribean movie was great. Second and third one, not so much. Anyway, I at least have the confidence that we won't screw it up as bad as Uwe Boll unquestionably would.

DugDawg

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

Why do we need a Bioshock movie? The game was a masterpiece of the medium, it told the story it wanted to tell. Unless the movie is expounding on the narrative, with Ken Levine's creative input, it's just going to be a shorter re-hash, without the magic that made the game what it is.

Machete_Bear

Pirates - overrated and over franchised suckfest, especially #1.

What could possibly go wrong?

VicViper

"No argumanet's allowed," can generally be interpreted as "I'm know I'm wrong but I won't admit it." The Mortal Kombat movie was terrible. As an adaptation of Mortal Kombat, I guess it was alright, but as a movie? It was embarrassingly awful.

etho

sander_dutch

It has the possibility of a new standard in adaptation excellence, but will wait and see. As long as the narrative is adapted effectively to take advantage of the new medium (the game relied a lot on atmosphere and a sense of general lonliness - this will be hard to get down. And the story played a lot on the fact that it was a videogame and the protagonist's lack of control, which will definitely have to be rejigged) it looks promising. But won't be getting to excited yet.

johnny_ultimate

Creating a story of Rapture BEFORE 'Jack' showed up would probably be the best way...I dunno though, thats why I don't make movies I just watch 'em.

Jetsetneo

William "Killer" Shatner

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

homernoy

globones

CaptMonkey

On a serious not, I don't think we have enough information to make a judgement one way or the other.

homernoy

Justo84

Does not compute. He did exploit it, he made two sequels. That's a lot in such a short time. Not only that, but he shot two at the same time. To cut down on production costs and maximize profit.

To much credit is being given. His name being attached to Bioshock isn't affecting my view positively(if at all).

karasu is my homeboy

NitrousO

If it fails, and the numbers are against it, will anyone really be surprised?

DarkDragonDave

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

excel_excel

eviltower01

Well, it's not Uwe Boll.

He is a visually interesting director, but has been choppy from a storytelling viewpoint. The only movie he's done that really impressed me was the grossly underrated and overlooked, The Weather Man. But, again, at least it's not Uwe Boll.

Sloopydrew

TheCleaningGuy is no longer (that) disappointed with DMC4

proust

KaneRobot

Surlaw-the-Mai