We got the chance to sit down with Francis Lawrence, the director of Netflix’s in-development BioShock movie, who gave us some of the gritty details as to why this adaptation has taken so long to make.
BioShock Movie Director Francis Lawrence Explains Why It's Taken Hollywood So Long to Adapt the Game

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