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"Really Big": Netflix’s BioShock & Gears Of War Movies Get Encouraging Updates
Netflix's BioShock and Gears of War movies receive encouraging updates from film boss Scott Stuber. The two live-action video game adaptations were announced to be in development at Netflix earlier this year, though the ensuing WGA strike, which officially ended in September, slowed down progress on both projects. The BioShock movie will be directed by The Hunger Games' Francis Lawrence with Blade Runner 2049's Michael Green writing the script. The Gears of War movie does not yet have a director, although Zack Snyder has expressed interest, while Dune's Jon Spaihts is writing the script.
During a recent interview with Collider, Stuber shared an encouraging update on the BioShock movie and the Gears of War movie. Both are making progress, but when pressed about whether the scripts are finished, the Netflix film boss replied, "We haven't even got them," and went on to detail how far along they are in the pre-production process. You know, Bio, we're waiting on the script. So we're in that kind of phase. The strike slowed us down quite a bit. That one and Gears of War, too, I'd really like to push on. I mean, Gears of War I was the producer on when I was a producer, so to bring it full circle has been great for me to get back together with the guys at Microsoft. So those are two really big ones that I feel aspirationally. There are huge audiences. As you know, that kind of medium, they don't translate always, and historically, as an industry, we've screwed it up quite a bit. But both those have really rich worlds, have really good characters, so they're very natural kind of transitions to screen and filmmaking.
We haven't even got them. We've done long treatments. [T]here's a lot of people that we wanna make sure feel good. Inevitably, when you're making those, first and foremost, you gotta make sure the fan base is good, right? So you're working with the creators, you're working with the teams who make the games. We've worked out a lot of that, so now we've got great writers, and I feel like, hopefully, we'll be on the road once we get those drafts.