they cant play it off as a video game to movie thing. like if its called "bioshock the movie" i doubt it would hold up to our expectations, they need to make a high budget movie and try not to make it video game like while still holding true to the story, plot and all that
Well JIm Carry could be a thugish splicer.
I think that's very possibly true, Osuperman. It's a difficult comparison, though, as the movie would need a modified thematic structure. It would be great if a film version could comment on movies' manipulation of the viewer similarly to the manner in which the game comments on games' manipulation of the player...
I think Bioshock would make a great film, what with the amazing plot and everything. Also some fights with big daddys would be pretty interesting!
i think someone should get a camera and put it facing the tv while someone plays through the whole game, thatll probably get an award or something
ya that sounds cool
I'd say M. Night Shamalamadingdonglayan with Michael Fox and Stephen King.
That'd work. It would.
Armin Shimerman. He played Quark (the Ferengi bartender) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He's like 5 foot 2.Originally Posted by Jerri Blank
Andrew Ryan seems a little taller...
Trevor from Aeon Flux should play Ryan.I mean the cartoon,not that crap movie.
You've got a point here. Look at Halo, we've been hearing "Coming Soon" then it gets delayed and we never hear about it again. As for other video game related movies, when they actually manage to bring movies to theaters, they end up sucking.
Personally, I think we should just stick with the game itself. Most video game movies are all hype and then nobody likes it. In fact, it gets to the point of disgust at the mention of the film.
If they do make the movie, I'll probably give it a go and probably never mention it again. The chances of success for this extermely intricate plot are 1/10. Imagine all the extras, splicers and scientists, doctors, artists etc.
This is just my opinion, I'm not trying to offend anyone.
Am I the only one who feels that a movie off of Bioshock shouldn't take the action/adventure approach? I would love to see a movie depicting the pre civil war/ civil war era with a Godfather esque approach. Less action more talking. It could possibly be told from one of Fontaine's or Atlas's followers point of view.
Ok here's how it should play out it shouldn't start where the game starts it should show us rapture at it's finest then show us what began to happen and go wrong then jack's plane crashes we go through the game path he saves the little sisters and after he beats atlas we see him afterwards with the little sisters coming out of the sphere he tells people what happened only for scienetists to go down and the splicers come up but the scientists don't and now both endings to the game where the little sisters are safe and the splicers are released are both in
I was thinking about this during the previewg of I AM LEGEND. It would be awesome, but I wouldn't trust any person to write it other than Ken.
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Sorry if I'm rehasing something that's already been covered, but a BioShock film would kick ass but I think it's quite a ways off from being made.
For starters, I really expect a prequel to come out for BioShock, which would be important to any film made as you can't make a film about rapture and NOT address it's rise/fall.
A BioShock film could be awesome, but I'm apprehensive just looking at the list you've posted. Most of those films have been quite poor and few have really stayed true (in spirit or story) to the games they are based on
I think the rise and fall of Rapture is already pretty well fleshed out in the audio tapes of the game. I think Spudnik123's idea of how the film plot should play out is pretty good, but I still think I prefer the punch-in-the-gut en medias res opening of the game with the history of the setting uncovered piece by piece. It adds mystery and suspense as the audience discovers the characters and the horror of Rapture. If possible, I'd prefer that sort of presentation in the film. But good luck to the script writer who tries to integrate sufficient backstory with a plot structure like that. The convenient plethora of audio tapes was conspicuous enough in the game; it would probably seem even more ridiculous in a movie.
I think Will Smith should be Jack ....
Not Vin Diesel?
If Vin Diesel were to be cast as Jack, i would go on a brutal chainsaw-wielding killing spree. Vin Diesel is a crap actor, most of his movies suck like xXx and The Chronicles of Riddick. He would be awful as Jack, just as he is in any other movie.
I was thinking the same thing just last night, I mean the whole reason I was captivated in the first place was because of the great story line, the voice acting and the originality. I think if they tried hard enough, it could be one of the best game to movie transfers to come out yet. I think people are just too lazy to work that hard on it though. Shame, it would be beautiful.
I think Will Smith should be Jack ....
If they ruined this game for me by using Will Smith in the movie as the character, I would never forgive them. I would probably hunt them down and smack their babies in the face. Will Smith=CRAP
This part would need someone GOOD, real GOOD. too bad daniel day lewis doesn't make movies anymore....
I should have used the sarcasm emoticon.Sorry.I bought Saving Private Ryan just so I could watch Vin Diesel being shot repeatedly.Still cheers me up to this day.
After seeing I am Legend,in which a highly paid scriptwriter completely ignored the source material and managed to still screw up a ZOMBIE movie,I've decided while Hollywood could make good translations from other media,they're so in love with themselves they assume anything other than an original movie is crap,and merely use the license as a hook to entice people who've experienced the book/game/whatever.I'm amazed Mist was any good.
If they can't even do a zombie story any justice,imagine how Bioshock would get butchered.They'd give us Resident Evil:Waterlogged.
Serious pick for Jack:Christian Bale.Or Keanu Reeves,but then everybody would know he's artificial.Too bad Vincent Price can't be Ryan.And Daniel Day-Lewis is going to be in a movie called There Will Be Blood about oil.
~I don't agree with BioShock being a very good movie unless of course as already stated you have Ken writing the screenplay and a producer whose an avid fan of the games and they work really well together.~
~Christopher Walken would make THE best Andrew Ryan, in my opinion.~
~I was really disappointed with The Resident Evil movies. The first one was good having several elements of the games and also that it's not all action but has some character development but it fizzles in Resident Evil: Apocolypse which was comical at best and a complete waste at worst. I didn't even go and see Resident Evil: Extinction. I read Thomas A. Ramos (I think that's who it was, the writer/direction of 'Night of The Living Dead') scripts to Resident Evil and found it to be pure genius (those sites I had are now lost to 404 errors, sorry)~
~I do think the best medium for BioShock would be in novelization. Two books is enough, you have a Pequal telling of Rapture's creation until the plane crash and then you have the novel of the actual game, maybe told from Jacks POV (point of view)~
~In general, keep games to games, books to books and movies to movies, they just don't work without the right people and enough dedication to be thought of as either outrageous because it didn't stay true to the story or boring because they did as said in previous posts~
~Alecterum~
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