“It was a huge loss of time”: 16 years ago, Watchmen’s failure has abolished this masterpiece adaptation

This is not a sincere secret. In the last twenty years, the budgets of the Hollywood blockbusters followed an exponential curve with higher marketing costs, congenital Tentpole movies For planetary running.

However, this inflation of the budgets is the opposite proportional to the risk of the majors that are looking for – more than ever, to ensure their investments, especially successful franchises. Unfortunately, it also happens that some real risk is achieved, with bold work, significant budgets, sanctioned by heavy cashier legislation.

In one case, as in the other, some failures can affect the devastating dominoes on other films. A very good example for this is the Zac Snider Watchmen, which will have a fatal impact on a project that has been satisfied by filmmaker Gor Verbinski for some time: Adaptation of Bioshock Video Games.

An absolute masterpiece

The absolute masterpiece was released in 2007 and was created by the famous game director Ken Levin, Bioshok It was undoubtedly mentioned in white stone, the world of video games. Mostly affects the entire literary power of utopian and dystropian works, which in the middle of the trilogy of Ain Rand and George Orwell, Biochok’s trilogy occurred in 1960.

The player portrayed a character affected by an air accident in the open sea and found a huge underwater city hiding in everyone’s eyes. A city built by a billionaire megalomaniac after World War II named Andrew Ryan, in order to realize the worst dreams of a utopian society, far from any external morality.

Fought in the atmosphere of fabulous art decoration with steampunk, in an unhealthy atmosphere, the player moves forward in the middle of the city, which has become uncontrollable; The population who is crazy after the abuse of mysterious substance called “Adam” was a real civil war.

Below is the composition of three of the three games of the Biochok Saga …

In his writing qualities, the absolute darkness of his script, its staging, including strong topics, including philosophy, including a unique atmosphere, often due to confusing intelligence, was an unforgettable experience of narrative.

If the suits, Biochok 2Released in 2010, Ken Levin preferred to focus An infinite biochekIt was published in 2013, which was this time in the fantastic celestial city on behalf of Colombia.

Project Scuttled by Universal

As early as 2008, we have already talked about the cinematic adaptation of the Biochok License, led by Gor Verbinski. After Juan Carlos Fressadillo was replaced, the project was finally shaken by Universal.

In an interview with the site Collider in March 2021Gor Verbinski returned to this interrupted project. “It was weird. About my first meeting with Universal about Bioshock, I am producing “Hey Les Guys, this is the movie” R “for $ 200 million!” It doesn’t sound at that time. I remember my agent told me “Why did you come out of something like that?”

I replied that it was true. Why try to kill the film immediately when you haven’t even started? It was even before we had a script or something. I just wanted to find out . All in the studio was “Yes, okay, okay, we’ll think, maybe …”

BIOSHOCK, killed the watchmen

The fact is that the universal eventually gave the green light. The predecessor began with a good Neil (Eddie Redmin even heard). “And they are scared” Loose Verbinsky. “I think this Guard They have just been released at that time. If it’s so much worth it, the film has to be classified by PG-13 “-said the studio. It was a huge loss of time. I tried to be very clear and sincere, I told him that it should be a blockbuster that is classified” R “.

$ 185 million in world cash registers for 130 million budgets, Guard Warner was the greatest failure that brutally compared the comparison to Miss Dark Knight, the ring PG-13, making it $ 1 billion.

From now on, all blockbusters (and therefore the budget that goes with it) does not exceed PG-13, taking into account the risks. After changing control Juan Carlos FressagoThe project was finally shaken by the universal. And since then? Nothing, exactly. In February 2022, before the announcement of Netflix, which announced the filming of the BIOSHOCK project, which was sent to Oblivion.

The incredible world of this license deserves preferential treatment if only the development of play characters, often fascinating, such as Dr. Tenenbaum, Andrew Ryan, Atlas, Dr. Généricien Suchong, etc. … links that unite them or vice versa; How the City of Rapture was shaken in this civil war, which shows the scenes of the most fascinating creation of the license, the great father and his place directly from the world of Julie Verne, which protects Adam’s harvest on the harvest corps …

“Netflix’s new policy has reduced budgets”

While on the video of the video games, Bioshock 4 was officially declared in December 2019 in the development process (and after which we were not without news …), the license fans – and there are many Netflix projects as well as milk on fire. And the news is mixed …

If the director Francis Lawrence still has his name, the ambitions are examined below, as explained in July 2024, producer Roy Lee in the microphone. Sample? “The new policy has reduced the budgets. So we are going to a much smaller version. It will be much more personal in terms He explained.

Given the visual power of the title, it is still a little terrible. It should also be nuanced: Netflix has been able to shot $ 320 million for electric condition; The most expensive film that has ever been funded by the Redmond firm. It’s really produced by Avengers Dads: EndGame, but still …