At one point gore verbinski was trying to get an adaptation of bioshock off the ground as well. He couldn’t get the financing unless agreed to make it pg-13, but he was only interested in making a hard r-rated version.
As it should be, what out of touch suited stooge would think you could pull off BioShock at the same rating as shrek?
What? Shrek is a PG movie for children… They wanted a PG-13 rating target. It’s the equivalent of T for teens in video games.
I wonder if this was before or after A Cure For Wellness, because there’s a fair amount of overlap between ACFW and BioShock.
Here’s a recent article that goes into some more detail. It looks like they were in active planning around 2008-2013ish.
dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect
keep it hard R
really f***ing with people’s heads
demented art-deco aesthetic
A Cure For Wellness was 2016. Verbinsky definitely brought some of his notes from BioShock with him.
Maybe the producer insisted the plot must include a giant mechanical spider.
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/wild-wild-west-jon-peters-giant-spider/
I’m not sure the ending twist would sit well with movie audiences. I’m still not sure how I feel about
spoiler
the fact that you play as a three-year-old accelerated aged clone of Andrew Ryan :::
Edit: it took me way too long to figure out that formatting. It’s entirely counterintuitive to any other social site I’ve used before.
“Okay, so I might have been a little drunk when I called him. And I might have made a crude joke about Big Daddy’s drill.”
“So what are your ideas for the third act?”
“What’s a ‘third act’?”
click
He just didn’t ask the right question, would you kindly?
