Gore Verbinski on his cancelled Bioshock movie
>we were eight weeks from shooting when the plug was pulled. It's an R-rated movie. I wanted to keep it R rated, I felt like that would be appropriate, and it's an expensive movie. It's a massive world we're creating and it's not a world we can simply go to locations to shoot.
Imagine the potential kino they’ve taken from us
Now what they’re going to make is guaranteed dead on arrival typical Netflix slop like The Witcher. Absolutely zero hype, just mildly curious to see how much of a miserable failure it’s going to be
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Just end up making more Randians like the game did.
Andrew Ryan ended up being vindicated. They had to introduce a magical sea slug to bring down Rapture. The name is also stupid and makes no sense.
>They had to introduce a magical sea slug to bring down Rapture
Rapture was already starting to crack between social strife caused by their inequalities and ryan’s dumbass hypocritical decisions like banning religion in a city supposedly dedicated to free ideals. Adam is just set-dressing to justify the magic system and open avenues to further illustrate Rapture’s terrors caused by amorality, like Ryan’s government kidnapping children for the little sister program.
If you think Adam makes Bioshock a farce then you have to agree that the magic metal and the perpetual motion machine make Atlas Shrugged a farce.
I would agree with that last statement too. I'm just saying the game did ultimately prove Ryan was right about free will and his philosophy. Intentional or not. Really it should have ended at the Atlas reveal and really let the player feel like they've been manipulated.
Verbinski is a great director and it is ridiculous that he hasn't released a movie in 7 years Bioshock or not
I think it's pretty clear the lone ranger killed his career
R rated big budget movie was not happening
Wow that's crazy. The pirate movies were incredibly well directed, his use of CGI is still impressive to this day
a cure for wellness also flopped
Lone Ranger harmed it somewhat and Cure for Wellness (an otherwise good movie) flopping probably made it more complicated for him to get financing, not least because his projects usually need considerable budgets.
It's in Hollywood's and our interest to have him back ASAP because he's a great director
More like Bioslop
I actually think Bioshock would work better as a tv show, with intrigue and power struggles between the various figures in Rapture, than a Gore Verbinski action movie.
Shame it's Netflix so it'll probably be CGI shit by dumb writers who don't understand the source material.
No
Nah, I’m fricking sick of everything having to be a tv show dragged out to 10 episodes now. Twisted Metal could’ve easily been an entertaining enough 90 to 100 minute action movie.
This, tv shows are fricking awful. And just because something would work as a tv show doesn't mean it ever does, most shows these days are 1 interesting episode at the beginning and at the end and the rest is filler shit
Rapture, which was created in 1940s, and featured Americans at that time going to live in the underwater utopia, will be mostly black people, with an emphasis on ugly black women because that's how Netflix does it. It's either that, or Rapture will be some metaphor for nazis and hitler and the main character will be the ugly black female trope.
So Bioshock 3. Given it's current year I'd wager that's the Bioshock game they'll base their film on, you know the shitty one
Or drag the whole thing down with the Burial at Sea time travel/multiverse bullshit
bioshock fricking sucked and would make a terrible film or tv show
It was a good take on the system shock style and isnt written any better or worse than the originals.
I find that Cinemaphileirgins that don’t fricking read tend to overrate these games, same as RPG nerds that like to pretend Fallout 1&2 and shit like Arcanum are works if genius.
Fallout 1 and 2 are awesome because of how the unique vision comes together in the end. Everything about the games are enjoyable and interesting. I'm really hard pressed to name a game with truly impressive writing.
I would also throw in New Vegas and The Witcher games as vidya with truly great writing. Planescape: Torment and System Shock 2 will always be the GOATs in terms of vidya writing.
The narrative itself is always the least important part of any work of art.
>shitting on arcanum
homosexual
Arcanum rules!
You just know some /misc/tard thought he was a genius for picking out largely 19th century concepts from a game based on 19th century history
Gnome hands typed this post.
God, I wish. My dick would look enormous in my tiny hands.
I killed every gnome in the game thoughbeit
wrong on both accounts, great game, great unique world and premise for a story that has never been told outside a video game
The first two sucked dick but Infinite was 10/10 kino
>Booker, catch!
They won't adapt the better game so it hardly matters.
The Rapture dream is over Father
>Little sisters suddenly start calling BDs "Daddy" when they never did that in the first game
>Player character just happens to be a BD so all the little girls in the game call you daddy the entire time
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
> Mr. Bubbles
I didn't notice that, but now that I think about it...
What do you think BD stands for? They were always the Daddy. Bubbles was just a nick-name. Don't make me pull up audiologs, homosexual.
Yeah. They needed a third option to mercy kill him with adam OD instead of fricking zapping him. At least they had time for as many endings as they did....
>They were always the Daddy
That was just a marketing thing Ryan came up with to make the more palatable to the public. The sisters saw the daddies as guardians and protectors, but not as an actual father.
The truth is 2's writer just wanted girls to call him daddy and that's a good thing
The sisters explicitly refer to the daddies as daddy in B1. The reason Delta has an actual adopted daughter is because he's alpha series. The sisters all call him daddy because of their condition, just like they called daddies daddy in 1.
You might not remember well because sisters in 1 usually referred to daddies as bubbles when passive. They only called him daddy during fights.
Kek, hearing this all written out makes me realize just how nonsensical the timeline and narrative of the game actually is. Yeah, several series of big daddies when the first game shows Suchong developing the bond only after the civil war broke out and he was killed after the first time it successfully happened. But yup, the civil war torn, resource starved, dying community filled with addicts managed to roll it out to every big daddy and create more generations of them to boot despite the lead scientist's death the exact minute he figured out how to do it at all!
Well said. Stakes became effectively nothing from that point forward. Abandoning realities for basically nothing
Meant this one
The largest issue with the alternate reality's intrusion on the story is why is it Booker's concern if their are other versions of Comstock? It is quite literally not his problem and even then there are versions of him where he cures cancer and is actually a good man due to the infinite nature of Columbia. Levine went too deep and should have just left it at Elizabeth and her tears in my opinion.
It's a case of its reach exceeding its grasp, but I still respect them for trying something different with Infinite. Also the gallons of semen I've spilled to Elizabeth over the years is pretty good too.
I never really got the hype about her, honestly. She's nice, but not nice enough to literally revolutionize the 3dcg porn market.
Her and Overwatch really took SFM porn by storm. I enjoy the mommy Liz Burial at Sea iteration of her, since I have impeccable taste.
I'm still salty about the way the game's morality system handled Alex the Great
The morality system is about teaching Eleanor not to obsess over revenge or assume the role of judge jury and executioner. All the people you choose to kill/spare are effectively neutralised when you make the decision.
It's not a great morality system but it does have its own logic, it's just that a lot of people confused it for having to make value judgments about the characters.
Unbelievably fricking based. Doing a replay right now and it smooths out everything bioshoch had already going for it. It's fricking fantastic and the story is way more elusive towards the dualities of man. Glad it will never be touched by producers
the game was great but I bet you're a coomer obsessed with the big sister
1>2>Infinite but it's all close and in the high level. Infinite really just jumped the shark when Booker and Elizabeth choose to go to a different reality to get guns (which they had no way of transporting) for a terrorist instead of just doing anything else including but not limited to: fighting their way to another part of the city to escape Songbird, hunting down the Vox and the airship, hunting down Comstock.
Ken Levine is mentally ill. You should hear him talk about the secret meaning behind Bioshock.
No such thing. He has mentioned that he doesn't like to give value judgments to the things he explores in his games, including objectivism. It's basically just set dressing.
Even if he did say that, I don't believe it. I'm a fan of BioShock, but he obviously had something to say about a specific extreme ideology. B2 gave the other extreme with Lamb, but Levine wasn't involved iirc. Then Infinite comes along with extreme ideology on 'both sides,' but then they walked back their criticism of the Vox Populi in the Burial at Sea DLC. I think he does have a definite value judgment, but I don't really mind even if I may not agree on everything.
>he obviously had something to say about a specific extreme ideology.
And what did he say exactly?
Another necrotic israelite with mommy issues?
what did he say?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230404045931/https://kotaku.com/bioshocks-israeli-roots-run-deep-1827482206
>morons struggling to understand why big daddies are refereed to as daddies
Damn, you people are fricking moronic.
They're called daddies because of my ddlg fetish.
I've seen the underwater hotels but do we have technology to build rooms like this underwater? seems worth it considering we can't build beyond earth at the moment
You do recall the Subdog Killionaire incident a few weeks back, right?
A room like that with huge, flat transparent walls? Maybe down to like a 100 ft. But it's definitely not worth it. Everything about the ocean sucks for building in.
in a perfect world resources would be more plentiful especially energy and then things like building a mansion underwater or even a small town would be possible. Boundaries need to be pushed
Ken Levine may be a subversive nutjob but I’m excited for Judas
Good. Now we only need to worry about the shitty Fallout show coming. morons think they're good at writing and can make these types of games into awesome shows when really, they're moronic and most likely never appreciated the game how it was intended so their product is shit. Some vidya definitely have better stories than shows, I've gotten more chills from games than TV without a doubt. But when it's soulless israelites trying to make a buck from something with soul it always turns sour, thank fricking god.
I can only imagine the shitfest a Fallout 2 show would be nowadays.
>too many fricking natives
>purifying the water from F1 IS the choice that was made, because muh ecosystems
>the savage isn't really a savage, just a misunderstood slacker who is suddenly thrust into an adventure with talking Geckos (all voiced by Jack Black) and a black Reno Police force that is misunderstood until they join up with the "savage"
I can see it happening.
thank g*d we have a powerful federal government complete with crony capitalism, nepotism and democrat ruling families to keep insane demons like Andrew Ryan from real life.
>What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds. A parasite asks 'Where is my share?' A man creates. A parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents. A parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God... '
i saw the city of lost children for the first time tonight and man, levine wasn't even subtle ripping it off
>Gore Verbinski on his cancelled Bioshock movie
anecdotally I did a sound design class with Verbinski's HOD Sound Guy here in Aus. This was years ago just post lockdown so I cannot remember his name, that and I failed the class pretty hard but he was a lovely guy, he worked on The Ring and a few other movies, I know there was one with Mark Ruffalo in it. He was talking about sound design in general terms and off handedly asked if anyone played video games, or had played Bioshock, then casually shared how Gore told him to play Bioshock in prep for the movie and he ended up getting really into vidya as a result.
>The entire game is about saving little children who people dont consider human, and how the bad guys use them in horrific scientific experiments
Truly makes you wonder and baffles the mind as to why pro-abortion Hollywood shut this down...