Netflix reduces budget for BioShock film, making a “more personal” story

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The upcoming Bioshock film adaptation has seen its budget slashed as Netflix focuses on making it a smaller, “more personal” project.

Variety reports that the revelations emerge from a Thursday panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, where the film’s producer Roy Lee said the BioShock project was being “reconfigured” following a leadership change at the streaming company.

In March, Netflix named Dan Lin as its new film chief, with the producer of the company’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender remake replacing Scott Stuber, who was in charge when the 2022 BioShock film was announced.

At San Diego Comic-Con, Lee said: “The new regime has cut budgets. That's why we're doing a much smaller version… It will be a more personal point of view, rather than a bigger, grander project.”

There's no word on a release date, but Francis Lawrence, who directed all of the Hunger Games sequels, is still on board as director.

This isn't the first time a BioShock movie has been in the works or faced with budget issues. In 2008, a year after the release of the first game, a movie based on the game was announced, with Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski attached to helm the project. The project was put on hold the following year due to Universal Pictures' concerns with the budget.

Verbinski stepped back to serve as producer and was replaced by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo as director, but also left the project saying it was on hold again because the relevant parties could not agree on a target budget or rating for the project.

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