Sony Pictures registers BioShock movie domains

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Is The Bioshock Movie Part of Sony's Games-To-Films Slate?

BOB "MOVIEBOB" CHIPMAN | 20 APRIL 2014 4:36 PM

The studio, with multiple game-based films already in development, quietly registers several Bioshock-themed web domains

It's been a rough few years for Sony Pictures, with many industry observers noting that the studio's bottom line has become increasingly overdependent on the continued viability of theSpider-Man franchise. But behind the scenes, the motion picture arm of the Sony Corporation has been developing what looks to be an ambitious new blockbuster strategy: Feature adaptations of popular video games.

That Sony is betting big on games-to-film being the next big thing is no secret, but things got a bit more interesting on Friday when Kotaku reported that the studio has registered the domain names bioshock-movie.com, bioshock-movie.net and bio-shock.net. Such registrations are frequently made by studios who are planning to aquire or begin development of a property; and while Sony has never been connected to to a Bioshock feature before now, a previous version was in pre-production at Universal Pictures (with either Gore Verbinski or Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directing) before being shut down for budgetary reasons several years ago.

If Bioshock was to become part of Sony's development slate, it would join a diverse stable of games-to-film adaptations already announced including The Last of Us, Gran Turismo, Raving Rabbids, Uncharted, Watch Dogs, Rollercoaster Tyc00n and Console Wars, a Seth Rogen-scripted corporate drama about the 1990s business rivalry between Sega and Nintendo. Sony also owns domains relating to a hypothetical Sonic The Hedgehog feature, possibly the "dark, edgy version skewed towards older audiences" supposedly planned by Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures.


Is The Bioshock Movie Part of Sony's Games-To-Films Slate? | The Escapist

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

could they make it work?

i'd watch either way.

 

[FlyRy]

out of all the games they wanna make into movies, this has the potential to be the coolest..even moreso than assassins creed.

make it some straight up trippy horror shyt

 

[NatiboyB]

out of all the games they wanna make into movies, this has the potential to be the coolest..even moreso than assassins creed.

make it some straight up trippy horror shyt

Damn this could be what I thought cloud atlas was supposed to be Still don't know what those movies were about.

 

[Crakface]

It plays right into the racist slave films that have been coming out lately. Now they can jump out of the 1800s and into the 1940s where even black people in a utopia are getting treated like garbage.

 

[ORDER_66]

It plays right into the racist slave films that have been coming out lately. Now they can jump out of the 1800s and into the 1940s where even black people in a utopia are getting treated like garbage.

I don't remember black people being in the original bioshock game...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Seeing a Live Action Motorized Patriot would be Something.

 

[AkaDemiK]

if done right this would the dope as fukk...the underwater setting and landmarks....crazy

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Yeah this could be incredibly dope. Should let someone like David Fincher direct.

 

[Don Mack]

Didn't have blacks in Bioshock until part 2 which isn't part of the main storyline. And did t have lots of blacks until Bioshock 3 in Columbia and the DLC rapture.

 

[Crakface]

I don't remember black people being in the original bioshock game...

Infinite is really bioshock 1

 

[duncanthetall]

Sony is registering all sorts of their IPs as movies. Doesn't mean shyts actually happening

 

[BasedPrime]

 

[King Sun]

 

[marcuz]

they've been talking about an uncharted movie since 2009