Gore Verbinski decided not to do the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movies because he wants to tackle a bunch of other projects that have his name attached to them. One of them, as you know, is BIOSHOCK movie based on the popular video game. The project was said to be in pre-production but according to Variety, Universal put a temporary stop to the effort and even had to fire some of the staff mainly because the studio thinks a budget of $160 Million is too damn costly for a movie.
Universal and director Gore Verbinski are looking for ways to find a more reasonable budget, one way is to try and shoot the film in London or anywhere outside the U.S. to take advantage of a tax credit.
Both Universal and Verbinski assure the fans that the fate of BIOSHOCK will not end up like HALO movie project that got cancelled because Universal and Fox had cold feet due to the same problem.
Barely surviving a plane crash, a pilot lands in icy uncharted waters and discovers an undersea city called Rapture, a failed utopia whose citizens had embraced genetic engineering before the city descended into pure anarchy. Power and greed have run amok and the city has succumbed to civil war. It is a gripping game that forces the pilot to make complex moral choices.
