Netflix’s ‘BioShock’ Movie Gets First Official Update After 4 Years of Delays
Hollywood has been in love with trying to adapt beloved video games for, well, ever. At least since games stopped being about 8-bit figures and starting incorporating narratives and epic storytelling into them. However, it’s not been as good as the writers of those games at making them compelling, to say the least. Not for a lack of trying, though. But one of the biggest and best video games ever made has remained frustratingly difficult to crack, although it’s getting closer.
Netflix’s long-awaited BioShock movie is getting closer to becoming a reality, according to director Francis Lawrence, who confirmed that he’s still actively working on the adaptation. Speaking exclusively with The Direct while promoting The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Lawrence explained that the project is making progress, although adapting the game’s unusual world has proven more complicated than expected.
“I hope so. You know, it’s tricky on a couple fronts. We’re — I’m definitely active in it. We are still working on it. It is a tough nut to crack that world and that story, especially because it’s… I mean, you are the character when you play the game, and so creating that character from scratch into that world that, you know, quite honestly, is pretty batshit in a most amazing way. It’s tricky. So we’re getting there, and we’re getting close, which is great.”
“I hope so. You know, it’s tricky on a couple fronts. We’re — I’m definitely active in it. We are still working on it. It is a tough nut to crack that world and that story, especially because it’s… I mean, you are the character when you play the game, and so creating that character from scratch into that world that, you know, quite honestly, is pretty batshit in a most amazing way. It’s tricky. So we’re getting there, and we’re getting close, which is great.”
The game sees players inhabit the silent protagonist of Jack as they explore the undersea city of Rapture, a haven for society’s greatest minds that has devolved into a dystopian nightmare wrought by one man’s hubris. Amidst the waterlogged ruins, a new ecosystem has emerged, where deranged Splicers hunt down the Little Sisters who would be helpless without their hulking Big Daddy guardians. Your only hopes for survival are quick thinking, reclaimed weaponry, and superhuman powers granted by DNA-altering Plasmids. To defeat Rapture’s mutated monsters, you must become one.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
- You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
- You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
- You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
- The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
- You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
- You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
- You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
- In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
- You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
- In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
- You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
- In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
- Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
- You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
- Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
- In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
- You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
- You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
- You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
- In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
What’s Taking Netflix’s BioShock Movie So Long?
Lawrence explained that the adaptation faces another challenge beyond the screenplay, with changes behind the scenes at Netflix potentially affecting when production can finally begin. However, the filmmaker remains determined to bring the project to the screen.
“And I would love nothing more than to be able to make that movie. So still working on it. And then, you have also just the Netflix of it all because Netflix right now has had regime changes and just all of that kind of nonsense that I don’t like to have to deal with or have to. So we’ll see. Hopefully we’ll figure it out.”
</blockquote>“And I would love nothing more than to be able to make that movie. So still working on it. And then, you have also just the Netflix of it all because Netflix right now has had regime changes and just all of that kind of nonsense that I don’t like to have to deal with or have to. So we’ll see. Hopefully we’ll figure it out.”
The adaptation was first announced by Netflix in 2022, with the streamer partnering with 2K and Take-Two Interactive to bring the video game franchise to life. But this isn’t Hollywood’s first attempt at making a BioShock movie, with Universal Pictures previously acquiring the rights in 2008 before that version eventually fell apart.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on Bioshock.
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