the canceled film surfaced online, showing what an adaptation could have looked like. Verbinski said that there is "all kinds of crazy stuff" from the pre-production stage that still exists, such as screen tests for characters. He noted in the 2017 Reddit piece that with the success of the 2016 film Deadpool, he believes that there is now justification for his vision of the BioShock film. Netflix film adaptation In February 2022, Netflix announced it would be adapting the BioShock franchise into a film with Vertigo Entertainment and 2K, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc producing. Francis Lawrence was slated to direct with Michael Green to write, as of August 2022. See also Ludonarrative dissonance — A term coined to describe conflict between narrative aspects of BioShock's story and gameplay. References Notes Footnotes Further reading BioShock: Rapture, by John Shirley (2011) External links The Cult of Rapture 2007 video games Alternate history video games BioShock (series) games Criticism of capitalism Feral Interactive games First-person shooters Immersive sims Games for Windows certified games 2000s horror video games Human experimentation in fiction Interactive Achievement Award winners IOS games Irrational Games Fiction about mind control Objectivism (Ayn Rand) MacOS games PlayStation 3 games Propaganda in fiction Science fiction video games Single-player video games Take-Two Interactive games Unreal Engine games Video games developed in Australia Video games developed in Canada Video games developed in the United States Video games set in 1960 Video games using Havok Video games with alternate endings Video games with underwater settings Weird fiction video games Windows games Xbox 360 games British Academy Games Award for Best Game winners Video games directed by Ken Levine Spike Video Game Awards Game of the Year winners 2K games