We have not had an update on Netflix’s Bioshock movie in a few years, main some to surprise if it was quietly canned. The excellent news? The film’s nonetheless coming. The (potential) unhealthy information? The price range has been slashed, according to reporting by Variety.
This comes from producer Roy Lee, who was one of many folks behind The Lego Film. He introduced the lowered price range throughout a panel at San Diego Comedian-Con. He didn’t put out any numbers, however did say that the film is at the moment being “reconfigured” to be a “extra private” movie. Director Francis Lawrence is still helming the picture. He has directed 4 of the 5 Starvation Video games motion pictures, together with I Am Legend and the unique Constantine.
The Bioshock movie was first introduced again in 2022, however since that point Netflix has skilled one thing of a regime change on the chief degree. Dan Lin changed Scott Stuber because the streamer’s movie chief and Lin has tightened the purse strings away from stuff like Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon.
“The brand new regime has lowered the budgets,” Lee stated at Comedian-Con. “So we’re doing a a lot smaller model.”
Along with price range cuts, Lee famous that Netflix has modified its compensation technique with regard to motion pictures. It’s shifting to a extra conventional mannequin that depends on bonuses tied to precise viewership numbers.
This might truly be excellent news. In my view, private tales are likely to work higher than fixed CGI battles with hordes of faceless baddies. Bioshock can be, at its coronary heart, a private story about household, with the fantastical Rapture setting being window dressing.
I assume it finally depends upon how a lot of that price range was minimize. There’s an enormous distinction between a barely lowered price range and a large minimize that turns the entire footage into darkened hall scenes filmed in a sequence of Toronto or Atlanta warehouses. The discharge date hasn’t been introduced and, actually, it may nonetheless be a methods off. Director Lawrence has a lot on his plate right now, together with an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Lengthy Stroll and yet one more Starvation Video games film.
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