gaming movie BioShock movie loses another director

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo drops out of captain's chair for forthcoming motion picture based on 2K's popular shooter series.

The film adaptation of 2K Games' first-person shooter BioShock has hit another snag. As reported by Indie Wire, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has dropped out.

To be honest, by now, I'm completely out of that and developing other stuff," Fresnadillo told the site at a press junket for his new film Intruders. "Right now it's on hold. The studio and the video game company, they have to reach some kind of agreement about the budget and the rating."

Fresnadillo (28 Days Later, Intact) became the BioShock film director after Pirates of the Caribbean captain Gore Verbinski moved to a producer role.

The BioShock film was first announced in 2008, with Verbinski attached to direct. Production was halted the following year due to concerns over the project's ballooning $160 million budget. Verbinski clarified the film's fate last year revealing that the BioShock movie's budget would only be approved for a PG-13 take on the material, a compromise he felt was unacceptable.

Last November, BioShock creator Ken Levine weighed in on the matter. He said a BioShock movie needs to give seasoned fans what they want, and for the uninitiated, something that effectively represents the game. Ultimately, Levine said he feels no rush to bring Rapture to the big screen.

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[GameOverRob]

PG-13 for Bioshock? F*** THAT

[Lamp0]

Do PG-13 films really bring in that much more $$?

[Xerax]

Just like the Halo Movie :(

[Rappy Veteran]

this is forever doomed to never be made

[Razorwing]

All video game movies Gears of War, Halo, Bioshock - all dead or halted. lol. See the theme here?

[Gaffney]

Good on him for rejecting, just make the best film. Of course there must be a concern about how finances are going to go but a film's quality and meaning shouldn't be dimmed down for the sake of a budget.

The game is an 18+ and it's not like it's just gore put in there just for there to be gore. It's essential to the whole feeling of the game, it's dark and a film based upon it should recreate that feeling. You can't flawlessly take a true 18+ and dim it down for a 13+ rating without ruining it unless you have a really awesome director and producer that can take it in a new direction successfully.

[protocol7]

Amateurs! Uwe Boll would have had this made long ago with no messing around.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Amateurs! Uwe Boll would have had this made long ago with no messing around.

He would be on Bioshock 4 by now.

[Daedroth]

There shouldn't be a film, it'd be just like Doom, where it does the games no justice.

[ozgeek]

Problems with games to movies is that people want to see what they played with or against in the games in the movie. They say they want first person view movie and they got Doom but that panned. People say they want trigens in FarCry just because it was in the game but instead they get a bit more realistic super soldiers rather than multiating animals. When gamers don't get what they want, they complain and wringe about how bad the movies are.

I've watched Doom and Farcry movies. They are not so bad on their own. Not good but not bad.

It is good that they delay Halo, Bioshock, Gears of War movies.

It is ironic that this news came up because I only found out about the bioshock movie this morning after first time playing BioShock 2 this morning.