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R-Rating Sunk BioShock Movie Plans

Posted by Soulskill on from the look-at-little-sister dept.

Back in 2008, it was announced that BioShock would be getting a movie adaptation. Those plans never really materialized, and director Gore Verbinski has now explained why: "I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating. Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, 'Jesus Christ!' It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the price tag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that price tag."

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  1. Reason why it failed by whiteranger99x · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the filmmaker only would've started his sentence with "would you kindly", he would've got unconditional support for making the movie

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  2. Re:Same rating as the game... ? by Anachragnome · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Why the fuck would it matter?"

    Precisely. Didn't they look at the demographics?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture

    First sentence in the first section. "The average age for a video game player is 35".

    Who the hell do they think their target audience would be for a movie of the same title and content? As you point out, precisely the same people that we're allowed to buy the game with a "Mature" rating...or did they expect the game would be sold to someone else, and thus include them in their demographic model? I wonder who that might be? The same people that wouldn't be allowed to see the movie, maybe?

    Just make the damned movie. Never know, it could be the next "The Exorcist"...

    "After several reissues, the film eventually earned $89,000,000 in domestic rentals.[38] To date, it has a total gross of $401,400,000 worldwide; if adjusted for inflation, this would be the top-grossing R-rated film of all time." (Wikipedia, again)

  3. Re:Open source it! by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool, will put you down for that. I'm going to start a website on geocities and get this ball rolling. Anyone know HTML?