BioShock Movie: 17 Weeks Later
Four months after the BioShock movie was placed "in a holding pattern" over budget concerns, Variety reports that Gore Verbinski has abdicated the...
Four months after the BioShock movie was placed "in a holding pattern" over budget concerns, Variety reports that Gore Verbinski has abdicated the director's chair and 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is in talks to succeed him.
Universal Pictures ultimately decided to film the movie abroad to take advantage of tax credits and exchange rates, a decision which would clash with Pirates of the Caribbean director Verbinski's schedule for his next project--though he is still attached to produce.
Fresnadillo's first foray into Hollywood was 2007 'zombie' movie sequel 28 Weeks Later, having previously written and directed several smaller Spanish-language films.
Sweeney Todd and The Aviator writer John Logan is penning BioShock's script.
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Gaughranorama
replyThis could be good news. 28 Weeks Later sucked testicles because it pissed in the eye of it's own logic with Robert Carlyle running around after his kids but it did look damn nice. Pirates of the Caribbean really went to shit though after the first and the Ring remake was pedestrian at best....
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It was entertaining, sure, but anything more than pretty effects and it was trash.
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Hey I enjoyed watching London get napalmed as much as the next guy but to be honest that DVD hasn't been out of it's packaging once while the first movie gets regualr viewings. To clarify though, it was the script that knackered the movie, not the directing. I mean, who didn't love watching Carlyle abandoning his wife and run for his life, persued by all those infected :)
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I thought it was great fun but then I wasn't expecting a severly complex script of genius like some people do :)
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Well 28 weeks later was mediocre at best. Nothing to rave about. Pirates of Caribbean was at least a little more epic even though started sucking balls after the first movie.
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I think it's bad news.
28 Weeks Later was not a good movie, and Fresnadillo is otherwise an unproven commodity.
Verbinski doesn't have much to show other than the Pirates movies, but that trilogy does at least have one genuinely great movie followed by two terribly written but well directed sequels.
More importantly, early interviews I saw with Verbinski suggested that he had the proper respect for the source material, and a solid grasp of the need to capture the core appeal of the source while making it work in a new medium.
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