Big Daddy Expectations Lowered as Netflix Douses BioShock Film Budget | Push Square

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Hopes for a BioShock movie worthy of the legendary gaming IP are underwater as news that Netflix has slashed the film's budget surfaces. Following a change in leadership at the firm, the project's budget has been cut to ribbons and will be «reconfigured» into something smaller and «more personal».

Word comes to us from Variety. The outlet attended a San Diego Comic-Con panel last week at which producer Roy Lee said the scope of the project had shifted (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz). Back in March, Dan Lin became the streaming platform's top film executive, taking over from Scott Stuberr, who was the big dog when the BioShock movie was given the go-ahead in 2022.

Lee set expectations: «The new regime has lowered the budgets. So we're doing a much smaller version… It will be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, bigger project.» Francis Lawrence, of The Hunger Games fame, is still on board to direct, but there is no word of a release window yet.

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How do you feel about a «more personal» BioShock proposition? What could that possibly entail? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Big Daddy had to be nerfed. He was too expensive. and big.

Its a Netflix original film so i had no hope anyway as they all suck.

Personal means it will be shot using an iPhone and a flashlight...

Hey, Godzilla Minus One had a budget of only $15 million. A small budget doesn't mean low quality.

@B_Lindz that was a labor of love. Hopefully this is too.

I think bioshock should be a tv show rather than a film

@DennisReynolds they don't all suck. There are a lot of the Spanish