GTA Publisher Take-Two Wants to Align BioShock Movie Launch With Next Game 

The motorboat of BioShock's beleaguered movie adaptation whitethorn present beryllium accompanied by different BioShock projects — including the long-awaited adjacent BioShock game.

Talking to Collider, BioShock movie shaper Roy Lee confirmed that portion the project's manager Francis Lawrence is inactive tied up successful post-production connected The Hunger Games prequel Sunrise connected the Reaping, the adaptation of 2K's blockbuster BioShock remains "next connected the docket."

"We would person gotten it made a fewer years back, but past different movies got successful the way, with 1 being The Long Walk and the different being The Hunger Games prequel, which comes retired this December," Lee explained, earlier hinting that the film's eventual merchandise whitethorn beryllium to beryllium portion of a wider BioShock push.

"We're conscionable waiting for [Lawrence] to decorativeness post-production, due to the fact that he's going to beryllium moving connected it done astatine slightest September, and past leap backmost into it," Lee continued. "I cognize that Netflix and Take-Two are precise anxious to spot the movie travel retired due to the fact that they privation to person the merchandise coincide with immoderate of the imaginable caller incarnations of the game."

That second condemnation is peculiarly exciting, arsenic it teases that steadfast Take-Two is keen to spot the movie debut astir the aforesaid clip arsenic a caller BioShock crippled (or two). Exactly what is meant by "incarnations" remains to beryllium seen, though.

When pressed for timescales, Lee cautiously said: "It's steadily connected the path, but you cognize however it goes. It's... truthful galore things could get successful the way, but I cognize that the intent is to hopefully get successful accumulation adjacent year."

Netflix announced plans for a BioShock adaptation backmost successful 2022, though the task has stalled owed to fund cuts impacting the scope of the movie and its script. Prior to that, Pirates of the Caribbean manager Gore Verbinski was moving connected his ain adaptation, though that yet came to nothing.

In September 2025, shaper Roy Lee confirmed the task is inactive successful progressive development, with manager Francis Lawrence connected committee to direct.

"It's a tricky adaptation, truthful there's tons of things to fig retired and to get right," Lawrence told IGN astatine the time. "There's authorities changes astatine Netflix, and truthful things stall retired and get re-energized and stall retired and get re-energized, and I deliberation we're successful a beauteous bully place, honestly."

As for the long-awaited BioShock 4? After layoffs and a further hold to the project's release, erstwhile Gears of War caput and Diablo franchise pb Rod Fergusson volition present oversee Cloud Chamber and the task itself, which has been successful improvement for the past decade.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.