Posted 5/9/2008 at 8:53 AMBy GamingShogun

Yeah, so it seems as though the BioShock movie is greenlit and Gore Verbinski is attached to direct. While some may think this is great news, and it is surely better than hearing Uwe Boll is set to direct, I do not like how Verbinski handles the plethora of plotlines that weave around his films. The last Pirates of the Caribbean flick was a garbled mess.

Official Release:
2K Games announced today that it has reached an agreement for BioShock®, the universally acclaimed smash-hit video game, 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, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

The prospect of bringing this blockbuster game to life has attracted not only a major studio, but top Hollywood talent. Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, is slated to direct and produce the BioShock movie. John Logan, Academy Award-nominated writer of 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.