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The ‘BioShock’ movie will become a reality and Netflix will take care of it

Netflix has announced in the last few hours a bombshell that has left us all wide-eyed and that is that in the statement it has reported its association with 2K Games and Take-Two Interactive for film production ‘BioShock’. For years we have known rumors about the possibility of this feature film, but it never came true, until now, and the platform has decided to take charge of the project to make an adaptation of the popular franchise.

Of course, they get into a swampy terrain and it is that the fans of the franchise will be very demanding when it comes to the feature film, of that we have no doubt. ‘bio shock‘ is one of the most followed franchises, so although it hasn’t been confirmed yet, we assume the budget will be quite high.

What do we know about the adaptation of ‘BioShock’ on Netflix?

“We all make decisions, but in the end our choices make us,” Netflix said in the tweet that confirmed the news, and it’s basically the only thing we know since no more news has been given about it, they haven’t even left any clues. about what plot will follow. At the moment everything is a mystery that we will have to discover little by little.

Likewise, we don’t know who will direct the film, or even which actors are being considered to make the fiction a reality, what we do know is that it will be a great challenge for the platform since it will not be easy to tell the story of Jacka survivor of a plane crash who navigates through a dystopian world in which some inhabitants are addicted to substances that modify genes and make mutations.

The series has three video games (2007, 2010 and 2013) and all of them have managed to sell more than 35 million copies since they are in the market, hence it is one of the most popular franchises of all time.

The other attempts to bring the franchise to the screen

In recent years, several attempts have been made to adapt ‘BioShock’ to the cinema, but none of them have been successful. Director of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’Gore Verbinski, even signed a contract to direct the video game movie, but the project did not go anywhere as they encountered some budget difficulties.

In a second attempt, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo became interested in the franchise again, but in 2012 the Spanish director clarified that he was out of the project. “The studio and the game company have to come to some sort of agreement on what audience it should be aimed at,” he said, so it wasn’t just budget issues.

But now it seems that yes, that it is more than confirmed and that we will see the movie of ‘bio shock‘ Probably within the next year. However, we will have to wait for some kind of communication from Netflix to find out who will be the director, the actors and, of course, the release date that is being considered.

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