Bioshock Movie On Hold Amidst Studio Disagreements

Movies based on video games never have an easy ride. Usually, if they aren't just scuttled completely, they are marred with over inflated (or minimalist) budgets, delays, multiple directors and -of course- a myriad of Hollywood producer types who have become something like the monster generators in Guantlet, but instead of monsters they spew out bad ideas.

Slowly but surely, it looks as though the Bioshock movie might be on the same ride.

The movie, first announced in 2008, has now had its second director leave the roll according to Gamespot. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of 28 Weeks Later,  has moved off the project after original director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) moved into the roll of producer.

"To be honest, by now, I'm completely out of that, and developing other stuff," Fresnadillo told the site at a press junket for his new film Intruders. "Right now it’s on hold. The studio and the video game company, they have to reach some kind of agreement about the budget and the rating."

Production of the movie was originally halted in 2009 after the movie studio would only approve the budget of a PG-13 rendition of the movie. Verbinski, at the time, halted production calling the request 'unacceptable' and it seems those kinks have yet to be worked out.  Modern movie studios apparently are unaware of the older demographic gamers now incorporate,  and if much of the dribble now put to large screens is any indication, it might just be better if no Bioshock movie is made at all.