Verbinski withdraws, Fresnadillo to direct BioShock for big screen

BioShock is also going to hit big screens. The good news is that Universal Pictures will be making the big screen adaptation of Bioshock and the bad news is that Gore Verbinski has been stepped out from the director’s chair.

News comes that Universal Pictures is luring Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo as the director of BioShock on big screen. Carlos Fresnadillo is well known for writing and also for helming 28 Weeks Later.

The publisher of BioShock, Take-Two Interactive, will be speaking finally on the BioShock’s director’s chair. Till now he has not given thumps up to Carlos Fresnadillo. Meanwhile the John Logan script is ready so the pre-production may start.

In the month of April Universal Pictures had shut down the production of BioShock due to the ballooning budget of the film. Then the plan made was to have a re-work on the script and also to explore possible locations abroad that can offer financial incentives.

Let me quote Verbinski when he was asked by the Los Angeles Times: “The bottom line is it has to shoot out of the States for budget reasons and my schedule may be prohibitive. There’s a great script and a really interesting cast. It really comes down to the financial model now. Big movies are just not being shot in the States. I’m weighing whether I can physically go the U.K. or Australia or one of those other places with a tax rebate for a year-and-a-half.”