{"id":685898,"date":"2025-08-25T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/netflix-has-found-a-director-and-writer-for-its-bioshock-movie\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:38:21","slug":"netflix-has-found-a-director-and-writer-for-its-bioshock-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/netflix-has-found-a-director-and-writer-for-its-bioshock-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Has Found A Director And Writer For Its BioShock Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/netflix-has-found-a-director-and-writer-for-its-bioshock-movie.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Netflix BioShock movie\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After revealing earlier this year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/15\/netflix-partnering-with-take-two-on-a-bioshock-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was making a BioShock movie<\/a>, Netflix has announced who will be directing it and who&#8217;s writing the script. And you might recognize them, and if not, you&#8217;ll almost certainly recognize the movies they&#8217;ve worked on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Netflix revealed in a tweet made today that Francis Lawrence (<em>I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland<\/em>) will direct this BioShock film adaptation and Michael Green (<em>Loga, Blade Runner 2049, American Gods<\/em>) will write the script.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tw-align-center twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BioShock \u2014 our live-action feature film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise \u2014 will be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland) from a script written by Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049, American Gods). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDh4ut6ayJ\">pic.twitter.com\/mDh4ut6ayJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Netflix (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/1562864632708050945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all Netflix had to reveal about the movie today. Perhaps we&#8217;ll learn of casting soon. In the meantime, read about the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/15\/netflix-partnering-with-take-two-on-a-bioshock-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Does this director and writer announcement excite you? Let us know in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/gamer-culture\/2022\/08\/25\/netflix-has-found-a-director-and-writer-for-its-bioshock-movie\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After revealing earlier this year that it was making a BioShock movie, Netflix has announced who will be directing it and who&#8217;s writing the script. And you might recognize them, and if not, you&#8217;ll almost certainly recognize the movies they&#8217;ve worked on.&nbsp; Netflix revealed in a tweet made today that Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland) will direct this BioShock film adaptation and Michael Green (Loga, Blade Runner 2049, American Gods) will write the script.&nbsp; BioShock \u2014 our live-action feature film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise \u2014 will be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland) from a script written by Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049, American Gods). pic.twitter.com\/mDh4ut6ayJ \u2014 Netflix&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/netflix-has-found-a-director-and-writer-for-its-bioshock-movie\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Netflix Has Found A Director And Writer For Its BioShock Movie | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After revealing earlier this year that it was making a BioShock movie, Netflix has announced who will be directing it and who&#039;s writing the script. 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