Bioshock Film Moves Forward With A Smaller Budget At Netflix To Bring “A More Personal Movie”

One of the long-standing IPs that still sits with many players is Bioshock. After the first three installments from Irrational Games, the team shuttered and left fans with a hunger that has yet to be fed. Although there are titles like Arkane’s Prey or Mundfish’s Atomic Heart, a proper successor has yet to fill that void. Ken Levine, the original creator, at his own studio, could do just that with Judas when it releases in 2025.

And that’s not to say a new Bioshock is coming. 2K did greenlight a game with a dedicated studio nearly 5 years ago. In a recent finding on LinkedIn, development looks to be ramping up according to a post from one lead developer at Cloud Chamber. Additionally, a live-action film is also in the pipeline at Netflix. What’s more, I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence is to take the mast for the production.

However, a new development in the upcoming film reveals the plans for the Bioshock movie. With the understanding that the picture is to take place in an underwater dystopia that is Rapture, it is expected a larger budget is to be handed to get that vision. As reported by Variety, producer Roy Lee explains a smaller budget is being handed in to make to film.

“The new regime has lowered the budgets. So we’re doing a much smaller version. … It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, big project,” Lee explains. He also went on to elaborate on the reasoning for Netflix decision to slim the film’s budget as it would align with a traditional business model centered on viewership which also includes a new contract for another film with Netflix.

“They’re changing it to be a metric similar to box office bonuses. It’s a chart: It’s this amount of viewers, you get this amount of compensation in terms of increased back end. It motivates the producers to actually do a movie that gets a bigger audience.” Are you behind this new direction for the Bioshock movie?

Source: Variety