The latest update on the BioShock movie states "Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious" to line it up with the new game's release

It's been a while since the BioShock movie was revived... only be stuck in limbo again. Slow progress is being made on a script, however, and like many suspected, it seems that director Francis Lawrence's busy agenda has been the main thing preventing it from happening.

Since Netflix's take on the cursed project was announced in February 2022, Lawrence has been busy working on two different Hunger Games prequels, The Long Walk, and even the tentative sequels to I Am Legend and Constantine. Now, via Collider, producer Roy Lee has teased BioShock could be the filmmaker's next big project after he's done with The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping's post-production later this year.

"We would have gotten it made a few years back, but then other movies got in the way, with one being The Long Walk and the other being The Hunger Games prequel, which comes out this December. We're just waiting for him to finish post-production, because he's going to be working on it through at least September, and then jump back into it," Lee openly admitted during a chat with Collider's Steve Weintraub. Many cinephiles and video game fans figured this could be the case, especially with the I Am Legend and Constantine sequels being far from locked, but it's reassuring to get a proper update from BioShock's producer.

Netflix and rights-holder Take-Two might also be pushing hard to get the ball rolling on the long-in-the-works adaptation pronto, as the fourth game in the series might get a nice boost after former Gears of War and Diablo head Rod Fergusson joined Cloud Chamber last year to rework and fast-track its troubled development. Fergusson is no stranger to coming in hot to fix and finally release troublesome games, and it seems the powers that be are betting on the game being ready in the coming years, which is why the movie needs to get going soon: "I know that Netflix and Take-Two are very anxious to see the movie come out because they want to have the release coincide with some of the potential new incarnations of the game," Lee added.

After last year's creative shakeup at 2K and Cloud Chamber, we also learned a remake of the original BioShock was in development and ultimately binned according to reports. That would've been the perfect thing to release alongside a live-action movie, but now all eyes are on the all-new fourth BioShock... even if we don't know anything about its nature yet.