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 finances has been slashed, according to reporting by Variety.
This comes from producer Roy Lee, who was one of many individuals behind The Lego Film. He introduced the lowered finances 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 manager stage. 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 mentioned at Comedian-Con. “So we’re doing a a lot smaller model.”
Along with finances 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. For my part, private tales are inclined 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 suppose it finally will depend on how a lot of that finances was minimize. There’s a giant distinction between a barely lowered finances and an enormous minimize that turns all the footage into darkened hall scenes filmed in a sequence of Toronto or Atlanta warehouses. The discharge date hasn’t been introduced and, truthfully, 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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