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Guillermo Del Toro Reveals He Tried to Adapt BioShock Into a Movie, but 'Disastrous' Phone Call Ended the Project Before It Began (www.ign.com)
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[–] 26 points 1 month ago (9 children)

At one point gore verbinski was trying to get an adaptation of bioshock off the ground as well. He couldn’t get the financing unless agreed to make it pg-13, but he was only interested in making a hard r-rated version.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't think that's what "hard r" means

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's funny because we used to have such a thing as XXX, to distinguish from "just X" but I guess RRR doesnt work as well?

    I suppose people might think they are pirate movies, hah!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    RRR is one of my favorite movies! It's age rated NR in the west but I think that only really shows how weighed the system is against nudity and sexual themes and discounts a great deal of violence.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I wonder if this was before or after A Cure For Wellness, because there's a fair amount of overlap between ACFW and BioShock.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Here’s a recent article that goes into some more detail. It looks like they were in active planning around 2008-2013ish.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect

    keep it hard R

    really f***ing with people's heads

    demented art-deco aesthetic

    A Cure For Wellness was 2016. Verbinsky definitely brought some of his notes from BioShock with him.

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