Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. If you own or have been in the immediate vicinity of an XBOX 360 in the last year you've probably played BIOSHOCK. If you haven't, BIOSHOCK was one of the coolest releases on any platform last year.
The game opens with an ocean plane crash. You control the one survivor as he's adrift. As the wreckage of his plane sinks he sees a small, rocky island... weirdly, there's an art deco style building.
You come to find that there was a civilization that created an underwater city in the '30s... until something went horribly wrong. Gene splicing, steampunk, mutants, super powers... it's all here, but with an amazingly beautiful art deco '30s era backdrop and music.
It's been known that the adaptation rights were scooped up, but the big news today is that a director has been attached. Universal brought none other than Gore Verbinski (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN series) in to direct and AVIATOR scripter John Logan is in talks to write the screenplay.
I am stoked for this. It's a helluva game, with a fantastic visual signature... and now a visionary director is attached. That automatically negates cries of "it can't be done! Video games don't work as movies!" The man turned a theme park ride into a fantastic series!
On behalf of all Bioshock fans, I say, "Mr. Verbinski. Would you kindly make a kick-ass movie?"
