Levine comments on Bioshock movie

Speaking to Edge Irrational Games founder and creative director Ken Levine revealed the back and forths of the proposed Bioshock movie.

"There was a deal in place and it was actually in production at Universal, and Gore Verbinski was directing it. And what happened was - this is my theory - it's a very big movie and Gore was very excited about it and he wanted to make a very dark, what he would call a ‘hard-rated' horror film - an R rated film with a lot of blood. Then The Watchmen came out - and I really liked The Watchmen - but it didn't do well for whatever reason and the studio got cold feet about making an R rated $200 million film."

Meanwhile, Levine didn't feel the need to compomise his vision and risk having a sub-par BioShock movie come out.

"So they said, ‘Gore, what about it if it was an $80 million film?' and enough time had gone by where Gore didn't want to make an $80 million dollar film. And so they brought another director in and I didn't really see the match there - Take Two is one of those companies that gives a lot of trust to their creative people and so they said to me, ‘if you want to kill it Ken, kill it'. And I killed it."

Maybe it was for the best in the end.