We have not had an replace on Netflix’s Bioshock film in a few years, main some to surprise if it was quietly canned. The excellent news? The film’s nonetheless coming. The (potential) unhealthy information? The funds has been slashed, in keeping with reporting by Selection.

This comes from producer Roy Lee, who was one of many individuals behind The Lego Film. He introduced the decreased funds throughout a panel at San Diego Comedian-Con. He didn’t put out any numbers, however did say that the film is presently being “reconfigured” to be a “extra private” movie. Director Francis Lawrence remains to be helming the image. He has directed 4 of the 5 Starvation Video games motion pictures, together with I Am Legend and the unique Constantine.

The Bioshock movie was first introduced again in 2022, however since that point Netflix has skilled one thing of a regime change on the manager stage. Dan Lin changed Scott Stuber because the streamer’s movie chief and Lin has tightened the purse strings away from stuff like Zack Snyder’s Insurgent Moon.

“The brand new regime has lowered the budgets,” Lee stated at Comedian-Con. “So we’re doing a a lot smaller model.”

Along with funds cuts, Lee famous that Netflix has modified its compensation technique with regard to motion pictures. It’s shifting to a extra conventional mannequin that depends on bonuses tied to precise viewership numbers.

This might truly be excellent news. For my part, private tales are likely to work higher than fixed CGI battles with hordes of faceless baddies. Bioshock can be, at its coronary heart, a private story about household, with the fantastical Rapture setting being window dressing.

I assume it in the end will depend on how a lot of that funds was minimize. There’s an enormous distinction between a barely decreased funds and a large minimize that turns the entire footage into darkened hall scenes filmed in a collection of Toronto or Atlanta warehouses. The discharge date hasn’t been introduced and, truthfully, it might nonetheless be a methods off. Director Lawrence has so much on his plate proper now, together with an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Lengthy Stroll and yet one more Starvation Video games film.