The Bioshock movie adaptation is still in development. It is reported that after changes in the top management of Netflix, the film received significantly reduced budgets and “revised” its idea. This was reported by The Variety.

The film adaptation was first announced in February 2022. At the time, Scott Stuber was Netflix’s director of film, and he implemented a policy of “generous” funding for film production.

However, he was soon replaced by Dan Lin and turned the strategy towards financial control. This is why the adaptation of Bioshock, which was originally intended to depict the grandeur and fantasy of the underwater metropolis Rapture, is forced to become a more personal and intimate story.

“The new regime has lowered the budgets,” says the film’s producer Roy Lee. “So we’re doing a much smaller version. It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, big project.”

Francis Lawrence, who directed the entire Hunger Games series and such films as I Am Legend and Constantine, is still in the director’s chair.