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Bioshock film saved from the waters, for the moment

Netflix's adaptation of the Bioshock video game saga into a film is still on the way but is seeing its scale reduced due to its also reduced budget.

Announced in 2022, the Bioshock film adapted from the eponymous video game trilogy is still relevant, mentioned by its producer Roy Lee (The Lego Great Adventure) at the last San Diego Comic-Con.

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Still relevant but “reconfigured”, explains Roy Lee since its budget was revised downwards. Referring to a change in director at the head of Netflix films, he explained that “the new regime has reduced budgets. So we are making a much smaller version… It will have a more personal point of view, rather than that of a large project.” Director Francis Lawrence (the Hunger Games saga) is still attached to the project. Launched in 2007 by 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, the Bioshock game was successful and spawned two sequels, also praised by the critical. A first-person shooter, it takes place in a ruined underwater city called Rapture, built by a utopian society gone wrong.