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Netflix Taps Francis Lawrence as Top BioShock Trooper

BioShock will be coming to the big screen, according to a today’s rapturous Twitter announcement by Netflix: “BioShock — our live-action feature film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise — will be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland) from a script written by Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049, American Gods).”

The coveted job had been up for grabs since February, when Netflix announced it would be developing the product in tandem with Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary, 2K. Industry observers say Lawrence was a shoo-in given his success with the Hunger Games franchise after Gary Ross’s exit. Lawrence later directed the prequel, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which is scheduled to make its trilling and hissing debut sometime in 2023.

Green will reportedly be adapting the BioShock script while Lawrence is currently engaged in other projects, such as Slumberland, which will debut later this year. Green’s most recent projects include The Jungle Cruise and Death on the Nile.

Originally released in 2007, the BioShock video game series has proven to be a commercial and critical success. It has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide, with titles including BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite. The fast-paced dystopic series, set in an underwater city named Rapture, transcends sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres and has also been distributed in remastered and bundled collections.

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The game has garnered rave reviews from gamesters and critics alike over the past 15 years.
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IGN rated it 9.7 out of 10 in its original evaluation, declaring BioShock “a monolithic example of the convergence of entertaining gameplay and an irresistibly sinister, engrossing storyline that encompasses a host of multifaceted characters. This is an essential gaming experience.
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The new BioShock film will be produced by Roy Lee and his Vertigo Entertainment together with Lawrence for about:blank and 2K.
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Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

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