Spanish director in BioShock talks

By Tom Bramwell Published 25 August, 2009

Film may be back on again.

Spanish film director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is in talks to direct BioShock, according to Variety.

The Hollywood film daily had previously reported that the adaptation was in a "holding pattern" after Universal Pictures sought to move production out of the US for tax reasons and previously-attached director Gore Verbinski couldn't commit to an overseas filming schedule.

Now it seems Verbinski will produce the John Logan script and Fresnadillo, who directed 28 Weeks Later, may take over, although this stuff usually just bounces around for ages, so who knows.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • mkreku #1 3 years ago

    I wonder if the movie's getting the same twist as the game? In that case I've already seen it :p

  • sadakos_fury #2 3 years ago

    Didn't Verbinski do Pirates of the Caribbean? Good riddance.
    This is good news. 28 Weeks Later was way better than it had any right to be.

  • rageman #3 3 years ago

    This is really good news. Fresnadillo has made only a couple of films, but they are excellent. Before 28 days later, he directed Intacto, a weird but very interesting film. Bioshock could be one of the best videogame adaptations with this director, better than with Verbinski, I think.

  • TheTingler #4 3 years ago

    Intacto was superb, but I thought 28 Weeks Later was one of the worst films I have ever seen. It is the only film that I have ever seriously considered walking out of - in the end I didn't, a) because I had a perverse desire to see if it could get even stupider before the end (helicopter!), and b) the person who owned the car didn't want to.

  • Hypercube #5 3 years ago

    '28 Weeks Later' was a pile of shit, so I'm not holding out any hope for a Bioshock movie to be watchable.

  • Matthew_Hornet #6 3 years ago

    Pardon my language, but fuck that shit. Moving overseas? New, cheap director? Sounds like all video game movies ever: a quick cash-in. This will not be any good. (Yes, Fresnadillo still has to prove Intacto wasn't a fluke.)

  • Tomo #7 3 years ago

    28 Weeks Later was epic. I think he's a great choice if he actually ends up being director. Intacto was great too.

  • altitude2k #8 3 years ago

    I was quite optimistic about Gore Verbinski doing this, but now that I look back, maybe I shouldn't have been. Pirates was a good series, but was it in the same vain as Bioshock? Not really.

    I absolutely hate most horrors, but 28 Weeks was an example of how good they can be if they have a good story and a good director. Better than Days IMO, and I love Danny Boyle.

    Fresnadillo conducting an army of splicers? Colour me FAR more excited...

  • AphoticCosmos #9 3 years ago

    Guillermo del Toro would be my choice - Pan's Labyrinth is freaking amazing.

    The guy can do fantasy-horror. Very, very, very well.

  • altitude2k #10 3 years ago

    @AphoticCosmos

    That certainly would be nice, but I'm guessing he won't really have much free time to do it in the next 2-3 years...

  • GreyBeard #11 3 years ago

    28 Weeks Later's script wasn't great, too many contrivances and plot-holes, but Fresnadillo's direction and the way the whole piece was mounted was pretty damn good imho.

    Way above average for a sequel, especially coming from Fox Atomic - who's track record is not good at all.

  • makeamazing #12 3 years ago

    I also liked 28 weeks later. The start of the movie was superb....of course it wasnt as good script wise, but still very good.

  • Iain815 #13 3 years ago

    Nice, 28 Weeks Later was great.

  • rhinoxious #14 3 years ago

    Unfortunately, a lot of hollywood feels the same way about 'films of games' as we feel about 'games of films'.

    None of us will touch them 'em with a barge pole.