2K and BioShock’s Ken Levine has said the movie isn’t going to be some daft and loose association with the game - that Hollywood’s Gore Verbinski ”gets” BioShock.
Levine said they ”certainly understand the material” and should have no troubles leaving a ”stamp of their own.” The flick is slated for 2010, partly due to Take-Two’s Zelnick.
”You’re always going to be worried that in that first meeting they’re going to be, like, ‘OK, it’s Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey on a desert island hunting for pirate treasure,’ but it’s not going to go that way,” said Levine, speaking at Develop to videogaming247.
”My expectation at this time, from everything that I’ve heard, is that it will very much honour the dramatic and thematic elements of the game… They certainly understand the material and are able to provide a stamp of their own.”
There was a lot of interest in the rights for a movie at the start and Levine explained that at ”some points it became so intense” he worried it might never get made.
”The movie industry’s strange. A lot of things get optioned. In the movie industry you can option very cheaply, and so it really came down to what Take-Two did. Strauss was very particular about making sure it got made. There’s no point in tying up the rights and having all the complications unless it got made in the right way.”
Take-Two’s chairman Strauss Zelnick had always said he would strive to get the movie made and not have Hollywood sit and wrangle over the details for too long.
”They did a really good deal, not in terms of the financials, but in terms of the people he chose to work with, and how it’s going to impact on the franchise… there are a lot of smart people involved.”
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore VerbinskiSource: videogaming247
