BioShock (film)

BioShock (also know as BioShock: The Movie) - is a 2025 live action adventure-drama-sci-fi film by Gore Verbinski, based on the 2007 computer game of the same name, created by Irrational Games and produced by Netflix and Legendary Pictures. The film was directed by Gore Verbinski and Stephen Surjik and produced by J. J. Abrams and Gore Verbinski. The film was planned back in 2009 and the film went through quite a few changes until it was finally released on Netflix in 2025.

Cast

 * Armie Hammer as Jack Ryan - The protagonist of both the game and the movie. Became a victim of a plane crash, which finds the entrance to city of Rapture. Jack is the illegitimate son of Andrew Ryan and singer Jasmine Jolene.
 * Johnny Depp as Andrew Ryan - a business tycoon who, seeking to avoid government scrutiny and other forms of oversight, ordered the secret construction of the underwater city of Rapture. He is also the biological father of Jack Ryan and Jasmine Jolene husband.
 * Ewan McGregor as Frank Fontaine/Atlas - a crime boss who becomes Andrew Ryan's nemesis when he tries to take over Rapture. He is responsible for instigating the civil war that plunged Rapture into social collapse, as well as Jack's kidnapping as an infant. He is responsible for instigating the civil war that plunged Rapture into social collapse, as well as Jack 's kidnapping as an infant. To escape Ryan 's forces, Fontaine faked his own death and later assumed the guise of Atlas, posing as the champion of the Rapture lower classes.
 * Ron Perlman as Big Daddy - A "monster" strongly spliced by human senses whose sole purpose is to protect the little sisters throughout the underwater city of Rapture.
 * Abigail Breslin as Little Sisters - TBA.
 * James Frain as Sander Cohen - TBA.
 * Jennifer Connelly as Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum - geneticist who originally helped develop ADAM.
 * Reggie Lee as Dr. Yi Suchyong - a doctor, who survives the Japanese occupation of China during World War II who came to Rapture and established an independent research laboratory to help leverage the resources offered by Ryan for financial gain.
 * Sarah Gadon as Jasmin Jolene - The dead wife of Andrew Ryan and Jasmin was killed by him, and she is also the biological mother of Jack Ryan.
 * Jason Isaacs as Dr. J.S Steinman - an American Jew and one of Rapture's most experienced plastic surgeons, who established a profitable practice based on his belief that everyone in Rapture should be beautiful. After ADAM was introduced, Steinman became bored, since ADAM was almost limitless, but he was limited by the requests of clients, whom he came to consider boring and insipid.

Plot
In 1960, the main character, Jack, is a passenger on a plane that crashes in the Atlantic Ocean. As the only survivor, Jack makes his way to a nearby beacon, where the bathysphere terminal is located, which takes him to Rapture. Jack is contacted by Atlas via radio and is directed to confront the dangers of the ruined city.

Atlas asks Jack to help stop Andrew Ryan, guiding him to a docked bathysphere where he says Ryan trapped his family. When Jack first encounters the Little Sisters, Atlas urges him to kill them in order to collect their ADAM, but Dr. Tenenbaum intervenes and insists that Jack spare them by providing him with a plasmid that can remove the sea slug from their bodies and free them from their brainwashing. Jack eventually works his way to the bathysphere, but Ryan destroys it before Jack can get to it. An enraged Atlas forces Jack to fight his way through the various districts to Ryan's lair, forcing Jack to fight Ryan's deranged allies along the way: such as the insane surgeon J.S. Steinman and the insane artist and musician Sander Cohen.

Eventually, Jack enters Andrew's office, where Ryan accidentally plays golf and explains Jack's true parentage. Thanks to his dialogue and the evidence collected up to this point, it is revealed that Jack is actually Ryan's illegitimate son, sold as an embryo by Ryan's mistress to Fontaine, who then had Tenenbaum and Suchong, Jack quickly matured into an obedient killer, able to gain access to anyone of Rapture's capabilities, the systems are tied to Ryan's genetic code and thus ensure Fontaine's victory in the war. Jack was then smuggled to the surface with false memories of a normal life, waiting to be called back to the Rapture when needed. Ryan suddenly takes control of Jack's actions, asking "Would you be kind?"; Jack realizes that this phrase preceded many of Atlas' commands as a hypnotic trigger, forcing him to obey any orders without question. Jack also realizes that he is responsible for the plane crash after reading a letter on board containing the same trigger phrase.

Andrew Ryan decides to die of his own free will and has Jack beat him to death with a golf club. Atlas then poses as Fontaine, who faked his own death and used "Atlas" as an alias to hide his identity while creating a heroic figure for the poor people to rally for his own ends. With Ryan finally dead, Fontaine takes control of Ryan's systems and leaves Jack to be torn apart by hostile security drones. Dr. Tenenbaum and the Cured Little Sisters rescue Jack and are helped to remove Fontaine's mental state, including one that could have stopped Jack's heart. Jack chases Fontaine to his lair, where he transforms into a blue-skinned humanoid creature by injecting himself with large amounts of ADAM. The little sisters help Jack extract ADAM from Fontaine's body and end up killing him.

Jack rescues all the Little Sisters, Jack takes them to the surface with him and adopts five of them as his daughters.

In scene after credits Tenenbaum gleefully tells how they continue to live fulfilling lives under his care, eventually surrounding him on his deathbed.

Production
In early July 2010, Verbinski announced that he was still working on the film, and that he and Fresnadillo were working on budget cuts and an R-rated film. In February 2011, Verbinski confirmed that pre-production of the BioShock film had been halted because no studio was willing to invest in such an expensive, violent-themed project.

As of May 2012, Levine has mentioned that there is potential hope that a BioShock film will someday be made, even if an adaptation is not as necessary, especially to the detriment of a film version, which he and the studio agree to make. In the interview, Levin didn't mention Fresnadillo, but he did nod at Verbinski's time to adapt, as well as what it would take to make a BioShock movie.

In 2015, emails released by Wikileaks revealed that Sony was getting the rights to a BioShock film that would "start fresh but based on the same story as Gore Verbinski's draft." Another email stated that Ryan Gosling was interested in the project and would be brought on board as soon as the rights were secured. Further updating of this revelation may be inevitable.

In 2017, following the success of the 2016 R-rated film Deadpool, Verbinski stated on Reddit that the film might have a chance these days.

In 2019, Greg Russo, screenwriter of the upcoming Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Saints Row films, stated that he was very interested in making the game a movie adaptation and was trying to find the right people to make it happen.

In February 2022, Take Two and 2K announced that the film was back in development and would be a Netflix exclusive. There was no news about the film until the end of 2024, when the trailer was released. And in November 2025, the film itself was released.

Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack was composed by Harry Shaiman, who composed the soundtrack for BioShock 2.

Critical Response
The film turned out to be a fairly successful Netflix project. on the website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a score of 94% from critics and 100% from viewers. Also on the IMDb website, the film was rated at 9.4 / 10. On Metacritic, the film received a rating of 97%. The film was rated 5/5 on Common Sense Media.

Sequels
Following the success of the film, the following sequels have been announced:


 * BioShock 2 (2028)
 * BioShock Infinite (2032)

Trivia

 * Even before the announcement of the film, there was a rumor that BioShock would be made into a full-fledged TV series, not a movie.
 * The film was originally supposed to be about Andrew Ryan and the development of his underwater city of Rapture.
 * The film has been canceled and postponed many times. Until Netflix decides to finally release the movie.

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