Guillermo del Toro was in talks to make a ‘BioShock’ movie

Guillermo del Toro has finally confirmed the long-standing rumours that he was in talks to make a movie adaptation of first-person sci-fi shooter BioShock. READ MORE: ‘Elden Ring’ saved Serena Cherry’s life – so she made an extreme metal album about it Del Toro has a rocky relationship with video games. His survival horror game Insane was cancelled in 2012 after two years of development and he worked with Hideo Kojima on P.T., a playable teaser for a cancelled Silent Hill game. “I’m the albatross of video gaming,” he said back in 2021. Now, the acclaimed director has confirmed that he had a “disastrous” experience trying to make a movie adaptation of 2007’s BioShock. “You know, I tried [to get it made],” he told IGN. “We had a very contentious call about a couple of games. I find that the dynamics of a video game are very different than a movie. They may be cinematically similar in terms of the camera moving and this and that, but the storytelling is very different, because you’re not solving puzzles. You’re not assembling. We had a couple of calls [about adapting BioShock] and they are probably some of the most disastrous calls I’ve ever had.” He went on to say that he “never” wan...