Netflix’s BioShock movie heads to Rapture with an exciting director/writer duo

The BioShock movie is officially moving forward at Netflix – and the streamer has announced the creative forces behind the adaptation of the hit video game series.

As per Netflix’s Tudum, Francis Lawrence will helm the BioShock movie. Lawrence has had a prolific career so far, directing Constantine, I Am Legend, and four Hunger Games movies. He’s also behind the camera for Netflix’s upcoming movie Slumberland, starring Jason Momoa. In-between all that, he somehow found time to direct some of the 2000s most iconic music videos. "Sk8er Boi" and "Cry Me a River" to Rapture? Now that is range.

In its initial announcement, Netflix namechecks Rapture multiple times – hinting that we’ll be going under the sea to the art deco utopia instead of taking to the skies to Bioshock Infinite’s setting of Columbia.

This isn’t the first time a BioShock movie has attempted to get off the ground, however. Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski told Collider that his stab at a big-budget BioShock movie never got going due to budget concerns.

"It was strange, my first meeting at Universal on BioShock was sitting in a room and saying, 'Hey guys, this is a $200 million R rated movie. And it was silent... And I think everybody at the studio was well, yeah, okay, maybe. Wow, no. It's big, we know."

Netflix, though, is seeing it through to the end. It joins the just-announced Horizon Zero Dawn series, too. No release date yet – but would you kindly watch it when it’s out?