14 Films Trapped in Development Hell
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10. BioShock
Anyone who’s played the original game will know just how awe-inspiring and tangible BioShock’s undersea world is. An art deco city lying on the ocean bed, it’s a fully-realised world of experiments gone wrong, insane survivors babbling to themselves among the debris, and scariest of all, a breed of armoured warriors called the Big Daddies. It was only recently that we discovered just how close director Gore Verbinski came to directing a big-screen adaptation of Ken Levine’s remarkable videogame, BioShock. According to Verbinski, the movie was well into production – to the point where physical sets had been built – before the studio pulled the plug on the project. The sticking point, like At The Mountains Of Madness, was that Verbinski wanted to make an R-rated BioShock, and the studio didn’t want to spend $200m on a movie with such adult themes.
