With Gore Verbinski stepping down as director for the sadly inevitableBioShockmovie (though hanging on as producer), there’s an opening for a new man to steer the project forward. Universal Studioswants that manto be Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. He’s the chap who made28 Weeks Later, as if our headline didn’t give enough of a clue.
Fresnadillo is in talks right now over the project, but final approval will come from Take-Two, which has final approval on any directors. Of course, the film could do much worse than have Fresnadillo on board, so I think the game publisher should say yes unless it wants something like Michael Bay or, worse, Uwe Boll to jump on the script. Fresnadillo’s producing partner,Enrique Lopez Lavigne, may also come on board as a producer.
The Infected from28 Weeks Laterkind of act like Splicers, being that they’re both diseased freaks that rush headlong at people and don’t make any sense why they try and speak. Should be an easy job for this particular director, really.
