Unable to deal with Halo, Universal Studio took on Bioshock

The director of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Gore Verbinski, announced his plans to film Bioshock, a popular and fairly recent computer game. Last year it sold over 2 million copies.
For the right to do it, Universal's studio paid Take-Two Interactive several million dollars and is already in talks with Aviator script writer John Logan to write the script for the picture. The exact amount of the deal with igrodelami not disclosed, it says only that it is one of the largest deals in the history of video game adaptations in recent years - at the level of when Universal and Fox paid Microsoft 5 million for the possibility of Halo adaptation, but this film has not yet been shot.
The action of the game and the future tape develops in the underwater city, which was planned to be equipped on the principles of utopian capitalism in the spirit of Ayn Rand, but everything did not turn out as it should, up to disastrous consequences. The player controls the pilot, who makes an emergency landing at the secret entrance to the city and eventually gets involved in the struggle for power, but discovers that in his actions he is not as free as he thinks.
“In my opinion, the idea of ​​a utopian world, in which everything went wrong by the rules, is asking for the screen, ” Verbinski says. “ Of all the games I've played, Bioshock has the most interesting plot.” Also, the director praises the design of the game in the style of "Art Deco" and its various unusual creatures - for example, the mechanical "Daddies", which protect the mutated girls, called "Sisters".
Almost immediately after the release of the game in August last year, Take-Two Interactive received several offers from various producers and studios, but the Universal option became tempting. The release date of the film has not yet been set, but Gore Verbinski will start work as soon as John Logan completes the script.
For the film studio, Bioshock will be a new attempt to do movie adaptations of the games - together with Peter Jackson they spent more than a year developing Halo and were forced to freeze the project due to an excessively overgrown budget.
via kinopoisk.ru