A couple of years ago, you might've heard that there were mounting plans to adapt the wonderful, artistically-aligned video game
BioShock into a fully-fledged feature film, with
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski set to step into the director's chair. You may have also heard recently that this project is pretty much dead in the water (no pun intended). And that's because - according to
BioShock creator Ken Levine - the studio associated with the project were too nervous to grant Verbinksi the right to make the R-rated movie that the game ultimately deserves. Instead of adhering to an unnecessary compromise and risk
BioShock's integrity, Levine decided to sink the adaptation entirely:
BioShock was withdrawn from cinematic consideration. Whereas that kind of noble dedication is certainly something to be admired, it's also a notion that you rarely get to see in the notoriously awful realm of video game to movie adaptations. You'd think that, by now (especially given its turbulent history), Hollywood would want to avoid video game adaptations entirely. In fact, the highest score a video game adaptation has ever managed on Rotten Tomatoes is
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. It has a meager 35%, denoting "rotten." And yet Hollywood won't quit. In fact, there are probably adaptations in the works right this second that you had no idea were even happening. Here's 9 video game movie adaptations that, for better or worse, are inching their way towards a theater near you. Does at least one of them have the potential to live up to the standards of its source material?