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Finally, A Video Game Movie For Smart People

Dystopian-future video game Bioshock will soon be a movie from Universal Studios, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean). Finally, a video game movie that has a chance at holding the audience's attention. According to Variety, this is the biggest video game-to-movie-deal since the abortive Halo film. At least we'll get to see the unraveling of an underwater dystopian society gone mad, with sea slugs and diver gear. Could this be the first decent video game movie ever? Click through to decide for yourself. More »

8:40 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Meredith Woerner
3,520 views, 71 comments

Latest by n/a: @ Belabras: You troll. The Resident Evil movies were total crap and complete disappointments and the Silent Hill film is the only thing approaching a good video game adaptation ever. You know it's true. The Bioshock movie had better kick ass; the more »

Video Game-Turned-Movie Channels 9/11 Fears Movie deals aren't just for comic books that nobody's read any more — now they're for video games that nobody's played as well. Fox has optioned a science fiction game still in development, Zero-G, about a new "never before seen" superweapon that destroys a major U.S. city. It sounds like it's coming a bit late to the 9/11 anxiety table, but could be a fun disaster/thriller movie anyway. Zero-G is being produced by Union Entertainment, which also worked on The Darkness and Sin City. [Sci Fi Wire]

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