May 12th, 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski has been engaged by Universal Pictures to direct and produce an adaptation of the video game Bioshock.
Variety reports that this project marks the biggest videogame-to-movie deal since the aborted Halo movie in 2005. Verbinski noted that game’s art deco design and visually arresting characters particularly inspired him to see the game as a film. John Logan (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd) is in talks to write the script.
The X-Box 360-bestseller Bioshock takes place in an underwater city based on the free market principles of Ayn Rand, but things have gone disastrously wrong. Players control a pilot who crash-lands at a secret entrance to the city, called Rapture, and is drawn into a power struggle during which he discovers that his will is not as free as he’d thought. A sequel game could be released before the film comes out sometime in 2009.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.