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MUMBAI:
2K Games, a US game company, has reached an
agreement for video game BioShock to be developed
as a feature film by Universal Pictures.
2K
Games, whose 2K Boston and 2K Australia studios
developed BioShock, is a video game publishing
label of Take-Two Interactive Software.
Gore
Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the
Caribbean trilogy, is slated to direct and
produce the BioShock movie. John Logan, who
won Oscar nominations for writing Gladiator,
The Aviator and Sweeney Todd is in
talks to do the screenplay.
The
expected release date and terms of the agreement
were not disclosed. BioShock has sold approximately
2 million units worldwide since its release
in August 2007. A sequel to the game, BioShock
2, is planned for a release in 2009.
Take-Two
chairman Strauss Zelnick said, "We are
excited that 2K Games’ vision for BioShock
will be carried forward in a new medium. BioShock
has been hailed as one of the most highly cinematic
and richly plotted titles in interactive entertainment,
making it extremely well-suited to film. In
partnering with Universal and Gore Verbinski,
we have assembled a team that respects the uniqueness
of BioShock and will translate it into
a powerful movie experience."
"Our
ability to attract a major studio and unparalleled
creative team speaks volumes about the strength
of our BioShock franchise. It also demonstrates
how Take-Two is delivering value, based on our
strategy of creating and owning our industry’s
most powerful intellectual property," Zelnick
added.
In
the game after barely surviving a plane crash,
the player lands in icy uncharted waters and
discovers an undersea city called Rapture, a
failed utopia whose citizens had embraced genetic
engineering before the city descended into pure
anarchy. Power and greed have run amok and the
city has succumbed to civil war.
2K
Games, president Christoph Hartmann said, "BioShock
fans appreciate the depth and complexity of
the game, and our partnership with Gore Verbinski
will introduce the world of Rapture to an even
wider audience. In addition to his impressive
body of work, Gore is an avid video gamer and
true fan of BioShock. That was extremely important
to us in deciding to move forward with this
project."
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