Bioshock Movie Script Revealed | Original Bioshock Movie Script Overview!

[@TheBioshockHub]

SUPER quick apologies friends. I meant to put the full script in the description, but I'll put it in this pinned comment. Hope you enjoy the read! - archive.org/details/bioshock-movie-by-john-logan ALSO, FEEL FREE TO JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER! I'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU HERE! - discord.gg/B3XDNyAkCA

[@insectostrich4407]

Honestly, I think it’s good idea to have Jack and Atlas interact in person. Not only would this make it less jarring when they have to mostly communicate through a radio, but it will make Atlas’s betrayal feel more personal too. Plus, I think it’s a great idea to show Jack actually form bonds with the Little Sisters. That could offer us something the game couldn’t give. However, yeah, this script really doesn’t work.

[@LlykVini]

I read the whole thing and it sucks. Andrew Ryan is not a good person, why would Jack want to fulfill his father legacy? Or the bad ending with splicers checking out missiles in the navy ship? Not having Jack interact with a little sister and a big daddy until halfway through the script. Showing what a big daddy is inside the helmet. So much is wrong in this. Maybe the only good part is having Atlas show up in person so that viewers would want to trust him more than if it's only on radio

[@insectostrich4407]

@@LlykVini My thoughts exactly. Also, sorry if this a bit… dumb, but I think Atlas turning into a sea creature with tentacles is actually an interesting idea. Because Adam comes from these special sea slugs, so harnessing all that Adam would probably mutate your body in an unpredictable way like that. What do you think?

[@TravellerOfBoth]

I've always felt that, if you're going to attempt a Bioshock movie, the least interesting thing you can do, is have Jack be the protagonist. The idea of an outsider coming across this city and having to fight his way through is perfect for a video game, but too much of the visceral thrill is lost in the translation to a movie. The story that for me is most intriguing in a movie context is the rise and fall of the city of Rapture. These great minds, the best of their generation, seeing their bold but ultimately misguided utopian dream turn into this hellscape. If you have Andrew Ryan (the quintessential mid 20th Century self-made American) as your protagonist, then you have this would be an interesting chance to make a modern day Citizen Kane type story, through the prism of a sci-fi/horror genre movie.

[@TheBioshockHub]

Right there with you.

[@nunuarthas8680]

Having Jack as the protagonist also negate the depcition of ideologies in Bioshock. Andrew Ryan should be the focus of story because the twist also works in Ryan's prospective. No one cares about Jack!

[@GhostRider-un9gm]

you have to play burial at sea DLC then. Is very explicit that the city failed because they lost all empathy to even mantain normal relationships and a society. it was all for Adam, so healthcare for the ones for money only and orphans go into adam harvest jobs.

[@Lt_Slider]

@@nunuarthas8680 No one cares about Jack unless they want to make a movie based on the first game, which by the video we all watched sounds like they do want that exactly.

[@Benserboy]

i literally cannot with "would you kindly shut the fuck up" like theres no way someone genuinely had to sit there and write that line

[@nerdyworld938]

This feels like how the first silent hill movie has been adapted. Faithful towards the beginning but not so much towards the end. Also they HAD ONE JOB WITH THE TWIST! It could’ve been at the end of the screenplay and Ryan leads Jack to the house with everything about his childhood and he learns it’s all a lie

[@TheBioshockHub]

I know right??? It seems that it just went batshit crazy near the end out of nowhere. Then again, late 2000's and early 2010's were an interesting time for video game adaptations for movies/scripts lol.

[@nerdyworld938]

@@TheBioshockHub yeah it just seems like video game to movie adaptions had two things happen back then: 1 the opening is extremely faithful to the game but towards the end the writing goes off the walls and the writers seemed to have given up 2 the movie has nothing to do with the source material. Nowadays video game to movie adaptations appeal to much to the fans and expect people to know the story, leaving average audiences in the dark(fnaf movie) there needs to be a balance and the only good adaptation that I think does this perfectly is the last of us.

[@Wilahelm2]

Well those are some...unique changes to the story. Not good but unique. Honestly any changing of mediums would require some changes but these feel very lazy. The only one I really can get behind is having Atlas be there fighting side by side with Jack rather then talk with him over the radio. Makes the character more involved and would make the betrayal hit harder. As for the back story of Rapture, rather then have characters do lots of exposition dumps I would keep the audio recordings but every time one plays it would trigger a flashback to the event. This would let us see the rise and fall of Rapture first hand rather then just hearing about it. Some scenes form the Bioshock: Rapture book could even be used.

[@TrueMoo87]

I want the movie to follow Andrew Ryan’s perspective and the cities downfall

[@TheBioshockHub]

I'd love to see that.

[@GhostRider-un9gm]

you have to play burial at sea DLC then. Is very explicit that the city failed because they lost all empathy to even mantain normal relationships and a society. it was all for Adam, so healthcare for the ones for money only and orphans go into adam harvest jobs.

[@NavinToast]

The power of video games as narrative is you can give more weight to actions of characters rather than leaning on dialogue. This script was mostly "Hey remeber that bit? Now let's go to the next bit, don't you want to see the things you know? WHY ARNT YOU CLAPPING!?"

[@WA_Stokins]

The "Winter blast - fire at your fingertips!" had me physically ascending.

[@nicklemay8056]

Felt like the pacing in this is what really dropped the ball for me. Having Cohen randomly appear at the beginning, skipping over Eve and waiting until nearly half the script to get to Big Daddies/Little Sisters. Compared to the near perfected pacing of the bioshock intro, this is just like pulling teeth trying to watch it find its way to the point

[@TheBioshockHub]

Definitely seems like the events & character introductions were just pinballed into the story without fleshing out those events & characters. You're right, pacing was just super, super odd.

[@nicklemay8056]

@@TheBioshockHub Yeah not to mention the fact that, while it was a script, we hardly even knew Atlas. In the game he's always present, but here he seems to only be around a tiny bit, not enough to build up rapport and certainly not enough to build up anything about him potentially being Fontaine. And same with Tenenbaum, who has even less presence

[@justjordz3724]

Found your channel via captain eggcellent and I cannot be more thankful, as a massive bioshock fan your coverage and more of the bioshock content is awesome well done🎉🎉🎉

[@ToastyDaEngi]

I audibly said "what the fuck?!" multiple times throughout this reading. Some of this was incredibly dark, and I'm not too sure if it's really in good taste. Flower's death and that ending was just messed up, man.

[@WA_Stokins]

Co-writer here, Flower was the one good part about the script LMAO.

[@skullnumb1532]

what is that on your channel dude 😭@@WA_Stokins

[@GhostRider-un9gm]

the script is really bad. They clearly didn't listen to Kevin levine and wanted to throw the thing to the toilet

[@ActualAseelGamer]

Your channel is going to do real good when the movie and new game drop, Erik. Nicely done boyo.

[@TheBioshockHub]

I hope you're right with that buddy, thank you.

[@captianbadtouch5767]

if i had to write a script for a bioshock movie, and had to have jack story id just stick closer to the original story. now if i had creative control for writing a script for the (first) bioshock movie id fallow the book and write about the rise and eventual fall of rapture. leaving the ending open ended with a scene of young jack being sent to the surface

[@Skybij]

If only Coen brothers would get behind script, dialogs, and direcing. That would be an equal match for original material.

[@moknows7848]

Hope you’re doing good man. Haven’t seen any uploads in awhile

[@Drew_2152]

Wouldn’t be the first time I’d hear someone shut down a villain’s monologue with shut the fuck up lmao. Yeah just about what everyone’s saying it’s definitely an interesting script with events happening in different orders and in different ways. I’d like to see a part 2 on the script.

[@bradabar2012]

As somebody who's played Bioshock hundreds of times, (and I'm still not sick of it) it was nice to hear the twist at the end! Adam ruins everybody who tries it, so why wouldn't it ruin Jack too?

[@sud2232]

Wow im so glad this wasn't made. I feel it misses the whole point of BioShock and just tries to be dark and shocking.

[@TheBioshockHub]

I'm on that boat too. I hope that Francis Lawrence and Michael Green actually stay true to the series with this new movie.

[@nerdyworld938]

@@TheBioshockHub they’re adapting the first game’s story so it might be similar to this script but more faithful hopefully

[@TheBioshockHub]

@@nerdyworld938 Hopefully without all the wacky stuff at the ending lol

[@mattwoodard2535]

Totally agree. They missed so much about what BioShock is. And that be one factor in Ken Levin killing it. sm

[@thelethalcreator2077]

If that was the idea for the first movie that we never got, I'm glad that it didn't happen. Hopefully the Netflix one is better and closer to the games

[@TheBioshockHub]

I'm glad the initial script & idea were shut down.

[@thelethalcreator2077]

@@TheBioshockHub Me too, there were a few good ideas, but most of it was like its own movie that was mostly Bioshock because it was called Bioshock

[@ShadowKiller0451]

Well the movie’s script was… Interesting.

[@TheBioshockHub]

That's a bit of an understatement lol. A lot of wild and random events.

[@joaopedropelisson5925]

Sooo... This is the original Bioshock movie script? This is what we've been waiting for all these years? Not gonna lie... I'm thoroughly disappointed. All these years of mystery, of wondering what the forbidden script was like... For this? Not only it ruins the plot twists of the game, the one thing everyone remembers bioshock for, but it also undermines the games themes about freedom and choice as you said in the video.... I sincerely hope that the new bioshock movie by Netflix won't be anything like this.

[@WA_Stokins]

Hi-ho. Zedd here, Co-Writer of the script - I can confirm 100% that was my exact reaction to reading it initially. I was so dumbfounded, I immediately reread most of it just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

[@joaopedropelisson5925]

@@WA_Stokins wait... Really? What happened? Why was the script written like this? I saw so much potential... But when the script threatens to actually get good it's immediately ruined by something that doesn't make sense... Like flowers' death for example.

[@WA_Stokins]

@@joaopedropelisson5925 I meant the script of the youtube video, LOL. I wish I knew, man, I wish I knew.

[@joaopedropelisson5925]

@@WA_Stokins well, I'm only sorry you had to go through this bullshit to write the video...

[@worldsstrongestgamer4033]

Its so awesome we finally get to see the original movie script

[@TheBioshockHub]

I forgot to put the entirety of it in the video's description. There's a lot more to it in the pinned comment!

[@worldsstrongestgamer4033]

@@TheBioshockHub sweet thanks for letting me know

[@graduator14]

If Orson Welles was alive, I think he would've been a perfect Andrew Ryan.

[@bradabar2012]

True, I couldn't agree any more!

[@bradabar2012]

Adam is a helluva drug!

[@TheBioshockHub]

Lol, yeah... you could say that!

[@nuneke0]

Oh boy, oh boy...😀

[@adammanneh4692]

Man i hope we actually get the BioShock film!

[@TheBioshockHub]

We definitely are getting one currently, as it's in the works. I just hope it turns out well.

[@crazednoodle8959]

Nice. I hope this doesn’t get botched

[@TheBioshockHub]

This is the OG movie script :p

[@worldsstrongestgamer4033]

Honestly I can't believe I'm saying this but im glad that they never released the original bioshock movie

[@TheBioshockHub]

Agreed. It seems that some of the events in the script were super out there and had no relation to the game at all, mainly that ending.

[@thelethalcreator2077]

Same, too many changes, and the ending was basically the evil ending of the game, but very, very fucked up

[@giraffeman2763]

After seeing what Netflix did to Resident Evil there's a 92% chance that they will do the same to Bioshock

[@darabennett4316]

Well, I got the feeling , from the writer's point of view.... that this script wasn't taken very seriously....... I'm rather glad it was axed, tbh.

[@drewkelly-qv9fy]

wow. We kinda dodged a bullet with this one, huh?

[@TheBioshockHub]

I honestly think so lol

[@thelethalcreator2077]

We sure did

[@nunuarthas8680]

It feels too much like a theme park ride where you met all the characters consecutively then send them off stage. Andrew Ryan should be more involved in the story. man, Bioshock's really hard to adapt right...

[@TurtleTime21196]

There is some more gameplay of judas. I’d love to see a video on it!

[@idek3044]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

[@kieranadamson3224]

We'd better get to see one though. Preferably being used to gore some splicers.

[@TheBioshockHub]

It's always super interesting to look back at old ideas and concepts, especially for the Bioshock movie. I just hope the new one turns out well lol.

[@kieranadamson3224]

One thing i love about this already is that it confronts the true horror of Jack's me tal conditioning. It's likely that up to the point of the activation he was just living a face in the crowd life. But we jever real think about how that was for Jack especially after his activation. On yhe surface these memories seem serviceable. A young man with a bright future yet an unplaceable sense of anxiety which majes him run away to find himself. But the flaws in Suchong's conditioning becomes apparent with the fine details. Like the crying man in "his father's office". Potentially being a mental representation of either his activation or just simply tge code pgrase swimming around in his mind. If this goes through I really hope they go all out. Rapture and it's terrifying yet incredible secrets deserve that much.

[@TheBioshockHub]

I like that aspect as well. I just don't really like all the crazy stuff out of nowhere, like the ending. It seems so out of place knowing how Bioshock actually plays out.

[@ryanbigguy]

Wow this was awful, it feels like whoever wrote this just kind of read the wikipedia page, got rid of all the "boring" stuff and decided to give the dialog the ol' suicide squad treatment.

[@TheBioshockHub]

Definitely seems that way. From what I looked up on IMDB, John Logan hasn't done anything with video game media & the movies he's worked on haven't been too great. I just wonder where the research and inspiration for the script came from.

[@ValosiTiamata]

The big problem with adaptations like this is that they render all existing canon moot. In thew case of Bioshock, you COULD theoretically use the excuse of the infinite lighthouses. However, this will be totally lost on the casual viewer and deemed boring to many of the more hardcore fans. This is why fan films (which you really should do some reviews of at some point) steer away from the main story and usually either give backstory for existing characters or delve into side stories. As with others, I firmly believe that the real story comes from what we know but haven't seen. They could easily give us a Rapture trilogy, covering the brief but powerful story of the ill-fated city. The first movie should start with the idea, founding, and construction of Rapture, along with the discovery of Adam and development of plasmids in the first two acts. Include the twins and give this half a mix of drama and retro sci-fi. Then switch to film noir for the second half. Introduce a detective, summoned to Rapture to investigate a series of mysterious murders, culminating in the reveal and showdown with Rapture's first splicer. The second movie could focus on the birth of first Little Sister and Big Daddy, as well as the growing splicer problem. Give this movie more of a Citizen Kane approach, with Ryan tightening his grip to try and maintain control over an increasingly unstable Rapture. We could see the stirrings of the civil war as both sides make their plans to remove the other, taking advantage of the fear caused from the ongoing unexplained murders, the true nature of which are being covered up by Ryan. The third movie is straight up horror with some inspiration from the original Poseidon Adventure/older Titanic movie. It shows us a glorious New Year's Eve, with people still unaware of the splicers, but soon devolves into total chaos, with previously unseen districts being breached by the ocean. It could follow a pair of lovers as they desperately try to survive and reach the surface as the civil war ramps up all around them. Each movie should have multiple perspectives so we get a full picture of events. Give us the two leaders, but also show us everyday life from a third perspective as well. The first movie could be a noir detective, hired to investigate the murders. The second movie adds in the good Doctor and shows how her ideology begins to change. The third movie, as mentioned before, would involve a pair of lovers trying to escape Rapture.

[@graduator14]

I'm satisfied with the script, except for the end. Bioshock definitely needs to be a series though.

[@bradabar2012]

It would have been a great movie, gotta say!

[@LeamTaylor-cv4xz]

Johnny Depp would be great as Andrew Ryan does anyone else agree

[@SoraTheProducer]

I want Cillian Murphy for Andrew Ryan or Frank Fontaine

[@LeamTaylor-cv4xz]

@@SoraTheProducer I'm kind of thinking it would be great as Frank Fontaine

[@TheBioshockHub]

@@LeamTaylor-cv4xz Honestly, I could see Cillian Murphy playing Atlas & Fontaine, with Johnny Depp playing Sander Cohen. I'm SUPER interested to see who Francis Lawrence casts in the new movie.

[@LeamTaylor-cv4xz]

@@TheBioshockHub I love your videos Eric in one of your next videos can you say my name in one of your videos and anything that's pops into your head

[@willmoore6166]

Let’s goooo

[@willmoore6166]

Wait posted 1 minute ago?

[@2gizmowin]

D-d-did the person who wrote this even play bioshock?

[@TheBioshockHub]

Honestly, probably not lol. Here's John's IMDB page of everything he's written/worked on. www.imdb.com/name/nm0517589/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_q_john%2520log

[@connorhamm7136]

So the movie was canceled? 😢

[@kingofstrangeness7014]

thats..... yeesh

[@TheBioshockHub]

It's definitely something lol

[@kingofstrangeness7014]

@TheBioshockHub I just hope the actual movie becomes better, but its Netflix and their track record isn't exactly looking good either 😭

[@kadenkingery]

I hope it's good, because if it's not, I... I don't know what I'll do but it is going to be really sad.😢😢

[@TheBioshockHub]

New movie now with a new director & new writer! Just need to wait and see

[@kadenkingery]

I can't wait! 😁

[@ghoulschoolfan80s35]

This script sounded interesting for the most part. The one-liners sounded a bit silly. "Would you kindly shut the eff up" sounds like a Resident Evil Protagonist's one-liner. And hopefully the Netflix Bioshock movie will have a happier ending Supposedly Ken Levine cancelled this movie because of the script's darker ending, which makes sense since he originally wanted Bioshock to have just the one happy ending in order to make a statement about choice/free will in video games as well as moral ambiguity. But publisher 2K made him include the Evil Endings for some reason

[@TheLuckOfTheClaws]

actually, ken originally wanted the bad ending to be the only one. and then canonized the good ending later bc he changed his mind i guess. which was a good thing because the good ending is much better and makes way more sense thematically

[@IRSmurfz92]

😎❤️

[@vaakohayes8580]

Nah they already fucking up heavily

[@marioruiz1530]

Was this written by an AI? Cuss it sounds very weird.

[@jaytheartman610]

Honestly with some rewrites I think this movie could've been one of the best video game movies

[@TheBioshockHub]

Depending on the direction it took, there's always that potential. I believe this was one of the original drafts for the script, so I imagine it would've been heavily modified.

[@jaytheartman610]

@@TheBioshockHub comparing it to the video game movies of the time like resident evil, max payne and far cry it would've been one of the better ones I think

[@TheBioshockHub]

@@jaytheartman610 Okay, that one's fair.

[@ProsperityManifested11000]

why does he randomly turn evil?!

[@TheBioshockHub]

Seems like maybe a twist ending or something? I have no idea other than that.

[@fumoshi1]

acording that script they simplified everything and rushed all the story

[@TheBioshockHub]

Definitely seems like it. And there's just some random elements/events thrown in there for whatever reason

[@fumoshi1]

@@TheBioshockHub the objectivist speech was replaced with "don't hear to it, it's just social engineering bs" lmao

[@amirsamkhajenaini]

would you kindly make the movie?

[@TheBioshockHub]

That one is on Netflix my friend. They're currently making it!

[@GhostRider-un9gm]

Really bad script. We are only getting Sander Cohen maybe, If they show the piano scene... There is no rapture ADS and commercials, Atmosphere, seduction that explains why people went there in the first place. Just a shallow merge of Bioshock 1 and 2 with the Evil ending. That was there just for commercial reasons, that's why Kevin levine removed the option to just shoot the little sisters... Is not what the story is about. If people wanted to know why Rapture failed they will not see it in this script. That is in bioshock infinite and the dlc. People worked 16hours a day, and no public healthcare, that was for "parasites", and orphans have to work of course, on drug harvesting and production. No basic empathy, just a civil war and allies for getting ADAM

[@ghostlightningboi5618]

🎉💉💗

[@ElizabethGonzalez-eb3cs]

The ending was bad lol but the rest was interesting.

[@TheBioshockHub]

The ending is super bizarre and out of nowhere lol.

[@ElizabethGonzalez-eb3cs]

@@TheBioshockHub Yes I like the original ending because it’s actually happy plus Jack is supposed to be modified so he shouldn’t be affected like the others splicers and go mad lol.

[@TheLuckOfTheClaws]

Oh, i've read the old script! it's quite literally some of the worst pacing i think i've ever seen. They were rushing things SO fast to cover all the needed material and yet added a bunch of random ocs who did fuck all. Why is ADAM just steroids. Why does it lean towards savior ending at first and then swerve randomly into 2000's level edginess in the end. WHY DOESNT FONTAINE EXIST. Rudy my fucking behated. Also this is such a nitpick but jack being dissatisfied with his surface life makes ZERO sense since it was tailored to keep him docile and be what he wanted? and i hate his characterization on the plane scene, that's not my boyo. I've always seen him as more of a gentle giant farm boy type. At least it's kind of an entertaining in how bonkers it is. Also cohen's sistine chapel with people is kinda neat.

[@TheBioshockHub]

I know right??? Reading over some of it just made me question the original writer's inspiration for some of the stuff within it... Really weird stuff lol.

[@Kooma4Yew1600]

....yeah- glad it got cancelled

[@stapuft]

You claim it's a review......but you don't actually review it..... You just read it..... BIG DIFFERENCE.

[@TheBioshockHub]

I meant to put overview before I scheduled it to upload. It's remedied now.

[@stapuft]

"...and everyone else watching..." So......'hello everyone, and everyone else watching.'....... are you one of those people that says 'atm machine'?

[@TheBioshockHub]

Sometimes when I haven't had enough sleep lol

[@Thetrue777luck777]

All movies from games are bad, because some director will use "his vision of the story" instead been loyal to the game. Also this days movies are all is all woke garbage.