Writer For Upcoming "BIOSHOCK" Adaptation Remains “Optimistic” About the Project

Rumors have been swirling about the next BIOSHOCK game and with that we are reminded that a film adaptation of the popular game is indeed still in the works at Netflix. The film is going to be helmed by Francis Lawrence. With the writer’s strike now over, Blade Runner 2049 writer Michael Green dropped in for an interview with Collider to talk about the film’s status.

While Green couldn’t reveal much (“You have to measure your words, or you’ll start to see a laser pointer at my forehead from the Netflix legal”), he very much confirmed that the project is back in motion after the strike. “Netflix has been amazing about it. They were excited about it before the strike, they’re excited about it now, post-strike.”

Green says that he’s been meeting regularly with Francis Lawrence and his team to refine the film’s draft, saying that the they’re “optimistic” about the adaptation. “It’s a great big sprawling nightmare world we wanna see real. So, here’s hoping. I would love to have an update for you soon.”

When the news dropped that Netflix was going to handle the adaptation. Take-Two Interactive, the games publisher, stated that they had plans to develop “a potential cinematic universe” based around the franchise.

As far as the games go, the fourth BioShock game is in development over at Cloud Chamber, which was initially revealed to be in development back in 2019.

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