Levine explains why he killed BioShock movie

Well that's too bad. But it does seem like killing it was the right thing to do. I wouldn't want to see a bioshock movie that Levine felt was compromised in any way. And an "R-rated horror movie with a lot of blood" sounds like exactly what would have been an awesome bioshock film.

Activision and EA, or for that matter, movie studios, learn from Take-Two. Leave your creators alone. I know it's scary for you at first, but in the long run, people will support you more for it. Sometimes, there are unlucky surprises like The Watchmen, which was actually critically-acclaimed. You can't win 'em all, as they say, right? But over-all, if people see you're taking risks by being true, people will come.

What's this? Integrity still exists? I am shocked-ed-ed.

Good call. Videogames make for terrible movies. Always have, always will.

I'm more disappointed about the vita game gettin' scrapped.

It's a shame it could have been a good film. Hollywood execs are fools for screwing it up like that. They only care about the money and not making a good film. That's why we see the same old formulaic crap all the time. The film industry in America is crap. It's not about making good films anymore. It seems there's no originality or creativity allowed. It's just big budget action movies with no plot, predictable, crap horror films, excrutatingly bad rom coms, terrible unfunny comedies, boring dramas, awful musicals. You do get a couple of good films but there's just a huge amount of crap movies out there. Why do they allow such a huge amount of crap movies to be made. A pg-13 Bioshock movie would have been crap and never have lived up to the game. He was right to cancel it.

I'm impressed to see Levine had that kind of influence, but not at all surprised he called it off. Bravo, Ken!

I'm slightly stunned at the notion that as a film's budget goes up, its age-rating has to come down in order to leave it accessible to enough punters to offset the cost. I know it makes sense from a business perspective, but I can't help think that maybe some of these studios need to do some of the growing up the games industry is told to do by others.

At last!!!! Some game developer stopping a posible sucking movie "just because it´s going to suck"!!!!! YEAHHH=) there´s still hope in this world

really? this is why we have stupid ass movies out that no one has ever heard of..Dark skies, Escape from Planet Earth, Safe Haven, Side Effects, Snitch, and Silver Linings Playbook.....DAFUQ?

Go R or go home!

Most Game Movies don't do so well anyway... (Yet somehow RE movies are still being made, and they are getting worse with every entry).

I think this movie had massive potential to get a following outside the gaming community. I would still like to see a movie for Bioshock one day. Who knows, maybe Mr. Levine will get his wish and the budget, and director will return and he can create something amazing.

R isn't really needed for this game. It doesn't even feel like an M game most of the time.

Ubisoft is paying less than 200 million for something that should be incredible. If Ken wants the movie so bad why doesn't he and Take 2 put up some of the money and dictate IP and rating. Bioshock would be the best video game inspired film ever made if it was given the chance. I would see it in the theater and buy the Bluray as I am sure many others would. I would just hope we didn't end up with the same kind of end as we got with DOOM. Maybe Tim Burton would direct Sweeney Todd was very dark, well done and rated R.

It's rare to see a high budget R film. It's always a risk for the studios, which is unfortunate.
I admire Levine for making the call.

Why would you need a R-rated movie? If it has a good story, then it will sell itself.

Why not put out a PG-13 movie in the theater but have an unrated version when it comes out on blu-ray and DVD?

TDK was PG-13, so was TDKR; I don't think a PG-13 movie couldn't be dark and gritty!

"Would you kindly let us make a $200 million R-rated movie?"

That might have worked.

It's for the best.

Props to Ken Levine and Take Two for sticking to their original creative vision.

let this one sink in for a minute then acknowledge the pure genius of it....

Bioshock directed by Quinton Terrentino. i know i know, why didn't you think of it first....

If it was the 28 weeks later director then he certainly did the right thing in killing the project.

very disappointed and mixed feelings on it. i totally respect levine's rights here and his delicate handling of his IP but I would have enjoyed watching damn near any treatment of the material, well as long as it didn't end up another resident evil piece of chit.

also, to all you @ssholes out there that did NOT watch Watchmen, one of the greatest movies of that year, thanks for killing THIS adaptation with your narrow minded view on movies. Watchmen was an amazing flick. nothing short of fantastic

Pretty old news right here, but i guess its relevant again what with infinite on the way.

Right from the horses mouth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STcOAq-Ranw

this is good, sad but its the right move...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI4tiKqpNIU

Good move Ken...

This just in! Ken Levine has been has been arrested and charged with one count of murder in the first degree. Also arrested were all of Take Two for conspiracy to commit murder.

Also, am I alone in thinking that this movie would perhaps work if it was a prequel of sorts that showed the rise and fall of Rapture leading up to the games?

Good call Ken!

I'm glad Ken had the balls to kill it. No need to release product that you don't have faith in.

A Mass Effect movie still has the potential to be good, and could feasibly get a $200 million+ budget since the material is already fairly PG-13 rated.

It's a very good call to kill this movie. While I always thought Bioshock was absolutely perfect to be made into a movie, it's no secret that movies don't make good videogames, and videogames don't make for good movies. And it's just that simple. And, no, 'Tomb Raider' was NOT a good movie.......