Gore Verbinski Is Out Of Pirates 4 But staying at sea for Bioshock instead
Gore Verbinski turned himself into a blockbuster director when he helmed all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies and made them into worldwide successes on a quite ridiculous scale. But now he's announced that he won't be returning for the fourth instalment, due to shoot next year, instead focusing on video game adaptation Bioshock.
We like to think that this is because Verbinski realised he couldn't face getting his head around another mega-complicated Pirates plot, instead heading for a nice sensible story like that of Bioshock. Y'know, set in an alternate 1960 where a plane crash survivor called Jack finds himself in an underwater city called Rapture and has to survive encounters with the mutated inhabitants and drones that now populate it, thanks to a mysterious substance called ADAM that is extracted from sea slugs that gives them psychic powers and mutant physical abilities. Still, at least there are no more ghost pirates, eh?
Verbinski's also working on animated film Rango, which reunites him with Pirates star Johnny Depp in a voice role, and developing film versions of Clue (aka Cluedo) and a story about fantasy role playing games and the real-life effects of addiction to them.
As for the news that he's off Pirates IV, we're a little torn. On one hand, it's a shame that the gang won't be back together for the third sequel; on the other, maybe fresh blood will help the franchise. And it's worth noting that while no one has ever made a good film from a video game, no one had ever made a good film from a theme-park ride before the first Pirates, so maybe Verbinski is the right person for Bioshock.
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Finally a good director for a videogame remake instead of some obscure European amateur who thinks he's ''artistic'' by totally ignoring the look and story of the original game. Look at Watchmen: that's how a story should be refilmed. Pretty damn awesome result, would be fucked up in any other way.
Erm ok...I am pretty sure Silent Hill was quite faithful and look how that turned out, and one of the problems Watchmen had was the faithfullnes in some areas. ... Read More
As my name dictates i am a Horror guru, so i do dabble in the Survival horror genre. BIOSHOCK is fucking awesome, brilliant game, however i fear that because the film is going to cost a lot of moola to make that the studios might insist on a shit PG-13 movie aimed at 14 year olds. However maybe if Verbinski does what Christophers Gann's did with the underated SILENT HILL adaptation we might get something really special, fingersw crossed. It is true that most game to video movies are shit, the re... Read More
They should never have made Pirates 2 and 3. They should have seen the obvious thing - that the most entertaining part of the first film was Captain Jack and gone for different adventures each film like Indy rather than the whole omfg we need everyone back from the first one thing. God i hated Orlando Bloom and Kira Knightly in those films. ... Read More
The game was okayish, but I really don't think its as good as people make it out to be because it was essentially just another shooter. The only thing it had was decent art direction and a couple of freaky moments. What I hated most about the game was how it has allusions of being emotionally deep and complex when all it gives you is a series of black and white moral choices of save the little sister, or kill the girl for your own selfish benefit... I'll guess they'll ramp up the gore for this ... Read More
Finally a good director for a videogame remake instead of some obscure European amateur who thinks he's ''artistic'' by totally ignoring the look and story of the original game. Look at Watchmen: that's how a story should be refilmed. Pretty damn awesome result, would be fucked up in any other way. ... Read More
I'll be (Bio)shocked if this film is as shit as the other gamefilms.
bioshock, of all games, has a lot of potential for a film. if hollywood makes crap out of this, then it's them, not the games at fault for all these dung-heaps of adaptations. (well.. them, Uwe Boll and Christian Slater - though the latter comes under Hollywood still - just about - anyways.) ... Read More
