News from the anticipated (at least at ESG) ‘Bioshock’ movie adaptation; it looks like we’ll have to wait awhile before we visit Rapture. According to Michael Fleming at variety.com, production has been delayed on the Verbinski-helmed ‘Bioshock’ adaptation due to ballooning production costs, at an estimated $160 million. The article is quick to point out that production is in a ‘holding pattern’ according to Verbinski and Universal and Verbinski are  evaluating relocating production outside the US. Universal and Verbinski are considering London for production of the ‘Bioshock’ film to take advantage of tax credit as an alternative to a production originally slated for Los Angeles. Previously, Verbinski opted out to the fourth ‘Pirates’ movie to focus on the ‘Bioshock’ pic, and regrouping production is intended to avoid a similar fate to the canceled big-screen adaption of the Halo franchise. The delay in production has been compared to the Ridley Scott ‘Robin Hood’ project, which has also suffered delays due to production costs, but has recently entered full production mode after trimming the initial production budget.

If production needs to be delayed to ensure that the ‘Bioshock’ film actually gets made, I’m all for it. The film actually shows some promise, with a director that was able to turn a Disney amusement park boat ride into a franchise. The ‘Bioshock’ movie production has much more potential than other brainless efforts at video game movie adapatations. As I was reading the article, I was kind of taken aback by the mention of the cancellation of a Halo movie adaptaion. I couldn’t think of a possible way that the movie would fit in the ‘Halo’-verse, but a movie that would bring Master Chief to the big-screen and a large segment of Halo fanboys into the theaters seems like a no-brainer to me; I’m sure another production company will re-evaluate the inherent potential in a movie with a literal one-man army. As for relocating production of the ‘Bioshock’ movie, producers should realize that the perfect production location is amidst the igloos in sunny Canada.
Canadians wouldn’t second-guess the construction of an underwater dystopia. Canada is a veritable ‘Circus of Values’.

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