{"id":1787315,"date":"2026-02-23T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1787315"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:33:06","slug":"the-latest-update-on-the-bioshock-movie-states-netflix-and-take-two-are-very-anxious-to-line-it-up-with-the-new-games-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1787315","title":{"rendered":"The latest update on the BioShock movie states &#8220;Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious&#8221; to line it up with the new game&#8217;s release"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/bioshock\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      BioShock<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">The latest update on the BioShock movie states &#8220;Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious&#8221; to line it up with the new game&#8217;s release<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Somewhere beyond the sea.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/146736695014.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"BioShock - Big Daddy attack\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"146736695014.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>2K<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/fran-j-ruiz-author.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"fran-j-ruiz-author.png\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/fran-ruiz\">Fran Ruiz<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-02-23T11:33:06+00:00\">Feb. 23, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bioshock-movie-update-take-two-and-netflix-want-release-alongside-bioshock-4?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          2 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"607e52fe-b00b-4dcf-b4c3-07133242f533\" data-name=\"BioShock\" data-follow-text=\"Follow BioShock\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following BioShock\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow BioShock\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following BioShock\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow BioShock\" title=\"Follow BioShock\"><br \/>\n  Follow BioShock<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/unmade-bioshock-movie-had-two-game-endings-says-director\">BioShock movie<\/a> was revived&#8230; only be stuck in limbo again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/dont-expect-that-netflix-bioshock-movie-any-time-soon-three-years-on-it-still-doesnt-have-a-finished-script\">Slow progress is being made on a script<\/a>, however, and like many suspected, it seems that director Francis Lawrence&#8217;s busy agenda has been the main thing preventing it from happening.<\/p>\n<p>Since Netflix&#8217;s take on the cursed project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/netflix-bioshock-movie-announcement\/\">was announced<\/a> in February 2022, Lawrence has been busy working on two different Hunger Games prequels, The Long Walk, and even the tentative sequels to I Am Legend and Constantine. Now, via <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/bioshock-movie-production-update-netflix-roy-lee-francis-lawrence\/\">Collider<\/a>, producer Roy Lee has teased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/bioshock\">BioShock<\/a> <em>could<\/em> be the filmmaker&#8217;s next big project after he&#8217;s done with The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping&#8217;s post-production later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would have gotten it made a few years back, but then other movies got in the way, with one being The Long Walk and the other being The Hunger Games prequel, which comes out this December. We&#8217;re just waiting for him to finish post-production, because he&#8217;s going to be working on it through at least September, and then jump back into it,&#8221; Lee openly admitted during a chat with Collider&#8217;s Steve Weintraub. Many cinephiles and video game fans figured this could be the case, especially with the I Am Legend and Constantine sequels being far from locked, but it&#8217;s reassuring to get a proper update from BioShock&#8217;s producer.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix and rights-holder Take-Two might also be pushing hard to get the ball rolling on the long-in-the-works adaptation pronto, as the fourth game in the series might get a nice boost after former Gears of War and Diablo head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bioshock-studio-cloud-chamber-undergoes-layoffs-appoints-rod-fergusson-new-bioshock-head\">Rod Fergusson joined Cloud Chamber<\/a> last year to rework and fast-track its troubled development. Fergusson is no stranger to coming in hot to fix and finally release troublesome games, and it seems the powers that be are betting on the game being ready in the coming years, which is why the movie needs to get going soon: &#8220;I know that Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious to see the movie come out because they want to have the release coincide with some of the potential new incarnations of the game,&#8221; Lee added.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After last year&#8217;s creative shakeup at 2K and Cloud Chamber, we also learned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bioshock-4-fails-to-impress-at-internal-2k-review-resulting-in-leadership-shake-up-and-revamped-narrartive\">a remake of the original BioShock was in development<\/a> and ultimately binned according to reports. That would&#8217;ve been the perfect thing to release alongside a live-action movie, but now all eyes are on the all-new fourth BioShock&#8230; even if we don&#8217;t know anything about its nature yet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/unmade-bioshock-movie-had-two-game-endings-says-director\">BioShock movie<\/a> was revived&#8230; only be stuck in limbo again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/dont-expect-that-netflix-bioshock-movie-any-time-soon-three-years-on-it-still-doesnt-have-a-finished-script\">Slow progress is being made on a script<\/a>, however, and like many suspected, it seems that director Francis Lawrence&#8217;s busy agenda has been the main thing preventing it from happening.<\/p>\n<p>Since Netflix&#8217;s take on the cursed project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/netflix-bioshock-movie-announcement\/\">was announced<\/a> in February 2022, Lawrence has been busy working on two different Hunger Games prequels, The Long Walk, and even the tentative sequels to I Am Legend and Constantine. Now, via <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/bioshock-movie-production-update-netflix-roy-lee-francis-lawrence\/\">Collider<\/a>, producer Roy Lee has teased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/bioshock\">BioShock<\/a> <em>could<\/em> be the filmmaker&#8217;s next big project after he&#8217;s done with The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping&#8217;s post-production later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would have gotten it made a few years back, but then other movies got in the way, with one being The Long Walk and the other being The Hunger Games prequel, which comes out this December. We&#8217;re just waiting for him to finish post-production, because he&#8217;s going to be working on it through at least September, and then jump back into it,&#8221; Lee openly admitted during a chat with Collider&#8217;s Steve Weintraub. Many cinephiles and video game fans figured this could be the case, especially with the I Am Legend and Constantine sequels being far from locked, but it&#8217;s reassuring to get a proper update from BioShock&#8217;s producer.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix and rights-holder Take-Two might also be pushing hard to get the ball rolling on the long-in-the-works adaptation pronto, as the fourth game in the series might get a nice boost after former Gears of War and Diablo head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bioshock-studio-cloud-chamber-undergoes-layoffs-appoints-rod-fergusson-new-bioshock-head\">Rod Fergusson joined Cloud Chamber<\/a> last year to rework and fast-track its troubled development. Fergusson is no stranger to coming in hot to fix and finally release troublesome games, and it seems the powers that be are betting on the game being ready in the coming years, which is why the movie needs to get going soon: &#8220;I know that Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious to see the movie come out because they want to have the release coincide with some of the potential new incarnations of the game,&#8221; Lee added.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After last year&#8217;s creative shakeup at 2K and Cloud Chamber, we also learned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bioshock-4-fails-to-impress-at-internal-2k-review-resulting-in-leadership-shake-up-and-revamped-narrartive\">a remake of the original BioShock was in development<\/a> and ultimately binned according to reports. That would&#8217;ve been the perfect thing to release alongside a live-action movie, but now all eyes are on the all-new fourth BioShock&#8230; even if we don&#8217;t know anything about its nature yet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News BioShock The latest update on the BioShock movie states &#8220;Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious&#8221; to line it up with the new game&#8217;s release Somewhere beyond the sea. 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