Gore Verbinski will be directing it.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167747
Its a great game but I think the content is too weird for a blockbuster general audience film.
With the right funding (a lot), it could be one hell of a good movie. I would def watch it, but its going to take a lot of time to make such a movie so probably like 2010 or so.
hell, I loved that game, I’lll go see it
Gore Verbinski? Let’s go watch it.
I suspect an epic fail on their part. All of the movies he’s directed thus far have been pretty bad - or have succeeded due to an extremely charismatic main actor (Pirates of the Carribean).
Idk, I just see this getting canceled or underfunded, sort of like what happened to Halo. I mean, it’s a big risk - and for every LOTR there’s a Dune.
^ I agree.
Alex, is right this is gonna bomb due to funding… a movie like this requires top knotch graphics all the way through.
you can’t even put lotr and dune in the same context. lotr was made to make money and attract a wide audience. Dune was made for entirely different reasons.
Obviously Dune only appealed to hardcore Dunies, and it was made by something of an abstract director, but it’s not like a studio is going to invest millions in a film if they expect it to flop.
Also it’s not like Dune was a cult success that had any real quality - the movie just stunk. Sure, a few parts were okay, and the music was decent - but the film just plain stunk. It tried to do way to much, explain an epic universe in like 3 minutes, and be bizarre just by design.
My whole point is that this director really hasn’t proven himself to me. All of his movies except Pirates of the Carribean I have been flops. And it seems to me like Pirates of the Carribean survives more because of Johnny Depp’s great performance than any amazing work by the director.
In fact, I could barely even sit through Pirates I/II. Not only were the plots boring and self-indulgent, they focused on silly and meaningless subplots (British admiralty, afterlife, fish-man hybrids, ) rather than the lovable and charismatic pirate crew that made the first film so likable.
Also he really jumped the shark in terms of logic. To me the central crux of the first film was the decline of “pirate” society (I should add that the pirates of the film never actually pirate anything, which makes sense for the first film, but makes the 2nd/3rd films utterly ridiculous). But then in the next film we see tons of pirates going around and waging endless mystical tirades instead of being pirates.
I’ve never played Bioshock, but I could see the movie being really bad.
^You never played Bioshock… its a must for everyone it is an AMAZING game in everyway.
I’d go see it simply because I dig the retro style of Bioshock’s environment.
I hear what what you are saying, I really do. I have to say though, my wife is in the film business and directing a project as gargantuan as Pirates does take quite a unique individual.
Also, the performance of actors in movies greatly (x2) depends on their direction. One thing that is very consistent of bad directed movies is that the acting performances are weak.
I’m not really trying to defend anyone here, I just felt the need to shed some additional light on the situation. I don’t think Pirates was amazing in any way (apart from perhaps, a production point of view.) but I don’t think that it’s shortcomings should be credited solely to it’s director though.
