Verbinski’s plan was to make a rated “R” adaptation of the game, but at the time, Universal wasn’t too keen on spending so much money on an “R”-rated movie.
Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and Take Two will produce Netflix’s BioShock.Īs you may recall, Gore Verbinski had been attached to bring the BioShock video game to the big screen back in 2008, just one year after the game was released. The award-winning franchise first introduced by 2K in 2007 has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide across the original releases of titles including BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite, as well as multiple rereleases, remastered editions and bundled collections.”
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Netflix has joined forces with Take-Two Interactive on the BioShock movie, with plans to develop “a potential cinematic universe” based around the popular video game franchise.ĭeadline recaps, “Set across multiple dystopian and visionary landscapes gone wrong, the BioShock video game series has blended sci-fi and horror to pose unique existential and societal questions reshaping how game stories are told-all amidst pulse-pounding action gameplay that rewards sharp shooting, clever planning and lethal improvisation.
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Netflix‘s BioShock movie is finally on the way, with Deadline reporting this afternoon that Francis Lawrence ( I Am Legend, Constantine) has come on board to direct the film.Īdditionally, Michael Green will be writing the screenplay. RED STATE is a horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America. Trying my hand at another genre that’s 180 degrees away from anything else I’ve ever done might finally answer the question (for me) of whether or not I truly am a filmmaker, or just the guy who makes the dick and fart jokes movies. Part of the reason is that I never really feel like a filmmaker most days more of a writer who gets to direct his own flicks. The question, then, would be “Why bother?” For some reason, I feel like I’ve gotta make this flick. So when you go down the checklist (overtly bleak, unlikeable characters making horrible decisions, unhappy ending in which everyone dies, a director of questionable talent who’s never worked in this genre before), you can see why folks aren’t whipping out their check books. The only chance it’ll have at the box office would be if it caught a water cooler-kinda buzz out of a film festival. The commercial prospects for Red State are not good. Yes, some of these are center-right, libertarian, or more middle-of-the-road sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis. Here are the latest standings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ordered using their Alexa traffic rankings. Sadly, while the flick’s bleaker than Dark Knight, it’s also not nearly as good as Dark Knight. The Top 300 Conservative Websites, August 2015. Remember how bleak Dark Knight was? This flick makes the bleakness level in that flick seem Beverly Hills Chihuahua bleak. “ I’m still trying to find money for Red State, though, admittedly, I haven’t been looking that hard yet, since it’s not something I’m gonna get to ’til March the earliest. Inside you can read the latest from an interview over at AICN. The good news is that Smith is apparently dying to make the movie, the bad news is that nobody will let him. The Other McCain is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for this blog to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites.While Kevin Smith’s out and about promoting his latest dick and fart joke comedy, ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, he has also been chit-chatting about his long-gestured horror-thriller RED STATE. McCain’s original reporting has included coverage of the 2012 presidential election campaign, the controversy surrounding the Kaitlyn Hunt sex-crime case, and the pattern of harassment against enemies of bomber-turned-progressive activist Brett Kimberlin.Ī native of Atlanta and graduate of Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, McCain was awarded the George Washington Medal by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in 1996 for his series of columns in the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune about the National Standards for U.S. In November 2010, the site reached the 5-million-visit milestone. 1, 2010, the site debuted in a new WordPress format. He was joined by co-blogger Smitty in March 2009. The original Blogspot site recorded more than 1 million total visits in its first year of full-time operation and eclipsed the 3-million visit mark in November 2009. In March 2008, he launched his individual blog, The Other McCain. He is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator and is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (2006, Nelson Current).įrom 1997 to 2008, he was a writer and editor for The Washington Times. Robert Stacy McCain is a veteran journalist and conservative commentator who is also a public speaker, author and communications consultant.
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