Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski says his BioShock movie would've included "both endings" of the original game

Hey, remember Netflix's BioShock movie that is going nowhere for the time being? No? We don't blame you, as we're having a hard time trying not to forget about it ourselves. Funnily enough, we continue to get more updates on Gore Verbinski's take on the material, which has been dead for nearly 13 years now.

While promoting his latest movie (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die) on Reddit (hat tip to IGN), the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director once again commented on that ambitious big-screen adaptation at Universal that was ultimately binned.

"I loved this project when we were getting close to making it at Universal... I was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect and definitely keep it hard R with the Little Sisters, and the 'choices' the protagonist makes... and the consequences," he said at first. As a healthy reminder, this was a $200m R-rated movie that was unsurprisingly deemed too risky. But considering Verbinski's knack for both epic and creepy visuals, it probably would've been visually stunning at the very least.

We'd already heard how the project came undone and was shelved, but most of the creative deets had been locked away in a vault. This time around, Verbinski was chattier than usual, so he revealed a shocking approach to the game's conclusion: "I had worked out a way with writer John Logan to have both endings and I was looking forward to bringing that to the big screen and really f***ing with people's heads." The first game's two endings were all about showing the Little Sisters the best side of humanity and rescuing them... or harvesting their power to become more powerful yourself. A single murder ruined your chances of getting the good ending, essentially penalising players for chasing more substantial upgrades.

Verbinski has shown in the past he's also quite good when it comes to loopy narratives (and A Cure for Wellness might be the best example in his career), so I'm also choosing to think he could've totally pulled off a dual ending which offers no definitive answer.

Nowadays, he admits he's still hearing about the current iteration of the project from time to time, but he's not sure "any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed." With Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games series, The Long Walk) now at the helm and Netflix footing the bill if the project moves forward, there's a good chance the movie could retain some of the needed edge, but we're not expecting a $200m R-rated epic at this point.