BioShock Movie Director Francis Lawrence Explains Why It's Taken Hollywood So Long to Adapt the Game

We got the chance to sit down with Francis Lawrence, the director of Netflix’s BioShock movie, who gave us some of the gritty details as to why this adaptation has taken so long to make.

The BioShock movie is a project that’s been floating in limbo for more than a decade. The film initially had Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) attached to direct, but it fell through. Later, Guillermo del Toro was in talks to helm the steampunk movie, but that didn’t work out, either.

Now, Lawrence — who directed almost every Hunger Games movie and, most recently, The Long Walk — is taking over. Lawrence chatted about his history with the BioShock movie in an interview for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which comes to theaters next month. When asked about what projects he’d like to adapt in the future, he mentioned BioShock but admitted it’s been “tricky” to translate to the silver screen.

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