Where many have tried and failed, the person behind The Hunger Games will as soon as once more give it one other shot. Francis Lawrence, director of the final 4 Hunger Games motion pictures together with the upcoming prequel, has been signed to direct an adaptation of the favored sci-fi horror sport BioShock for Netflix.

Deadline broke the information, which additionally contains author Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049) to pen the screenplay. It’s the primary main replace on the movie since earlier this yr when Netflix introduced it had acquired the rights to the Take Two Interactive franchise. Adapting the sport is a process a number of filmmakers, most notably Gore Verbinksi, have tried prior to now to no avail.

Lawrence (who additionally directed Constantine and I Am Legend) is at present directing that aforementioned Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, so the plan is for Green to write down the script and as soon as the director is completed with that film, he’ll leap onto this one.

This appears to be an encouraging and nearly thrilling replace on a online game adaptation most followers had in all probability thought would by no means occur. The underwater world of BioShock is so wealthy and exquisite, but in addition darkish and disturbing, that you simply nearly understood why a movie hadn’t occurred. What studio was going to pay for a film that may price so, a lot however nearly definitely must alienate a very good chunk of the viewers with the intention to be depicted precisely? Well, enter Netflix, which you’ll think about desires to begins a complete new franchise.

So are the lads behind Green Lantern and Red Sparrow those to lastly deliver Big Daddy to the display screen? (Yes, I purposely picked a few of their lesser movies for that joke to land.) In all seriousness although, each Green and Lawrence have proven a capability to take large, daring tales and discover their cores. Green with Jungle Cruise. Lawrence with I Am Legend. There are others too. We assume there’s some potential right here, what about you?

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