Big Daddies Invade Hollywood

It takes a plane crash and a bathysphere ride for the protagonist of last year's innovative shooter "BioShock" to get to the underwater city of Rapture, but all filmgoers need do is purchase a ticket. Universal Pictures has bought the rights to produce "BioShock" into a film.

Gore Verbinski, director of Pirates of the Caribbean, will helm the film adaptation. He was also the director of such films as The Ring and Mousehunt.

Take-Two's position on the film adaptation seems confident-Verbinski is "an avid video gamer and true fan of 'BioShock.'"

"BioShock" was released last August. The game's nameless protagonist is trapped inside of an underwater city infested with mutated freaks ran by an insane leader named Andrew Ryan. The game received nearly universal critical acclaim, triumphed by such review sites as GameSpy as "an unparalleled achievement."

John Logan, writer of Gladiator and The Aviator, is currently in talks to write the screenplay.