‘BioShock’ Movie Still Happening at Netflix; New Game?!

A BioShock film adaptation has been in development for over a decade. Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean) was previously attached to direct an earlier version set in Rapture. Since 2022, Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) has been attached to direct for Netflix, with a screenplay by Michael Green. The project has faced multiple delays due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, script revisions, internal changes at Netflix, and scheduling conflicts. However, the film remains in active development, with producer Roy Lee indicating that progress may resume soon.

Lee, out promiting Psycho Killer, which opened in theaters last weekend, told Collider that Lawrence has been busy completing the upcoming The Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, set to release on November 20.  Netflix is eager for BioShock to get underway and hopes Lawrence will make it his next project.

“We would have gotten it made a few years back, but then other movies got in the way, with one being The Long Walk and the other being The Hunger Games prequel, which comes out this December,” he told the site. “We’re just waiting for him to finish post-production, because he’s going to be working on it through at least September, and then jump back into it. I know that Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious to see the movie come out because they want to have the release coincide with some of the potential new incarnations of the game.”

Not only should we expect BioShock to be Lawrence’s next movie, but it sounds like it’s possible we might be getting a new game in 2027 to coincide with its release?!

Set across multiple dystopian and visionary landscapes gone wrong, the BioShock video game series has blended sci-fi and horror to pose unique existential and societal questions reshaping how game stories are told—all amidst pulse-pounding action gameplay that rewards sharp shooting, clever planning and lethal improvisation, explained Deadline. The award-winning franchise first introduced by 2K in 2007 has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide across the original releases of titles including BioShock, BioShock 2 and , as well as multiple rereleases, remastered editions and bundled collections.