Universal Pictures is back on track to make the film adaption of the BioShock videogame. Pirates of the Caribbean director, Gore Verbinski, was originally going to helm the project, but because of the budget exceeding $160 million — Universal was forced to shutdown the film. The company also wanted to rewrite the script and look for alternative filming locations outside the country to reduce costs of the film.

/film is reporting that a BioShock film has once again been green lit by the studio, however, Gore Verbinski has step down as director. Instead 28 Weeks writer/director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, has been signed on to helm the project. Verbinski will still be attached to the film, but will now take the role of producer instead.

Personally, I find Gore Verbinski leaving the film as director rather disappointing, and hearing Universal finding ways to cut production costs is discouraging news. BioShock is one of the first games I felt had an emotional story, which kinda felt close to a movie. While the narration still didn’t compare to great films — it certainly had potential on being the best videogame-movie adaption. And first hearing Verbinski was heading the film, made me think studios were finally going to use great gaming titles and make some serious films, like they’ve done with comic books in the last ten-years or so.

In my opinion, replacing Verbinski with Fresnadillo along with the other cuts, makes it seem like Universal is going to try and stick with a generic action film, which was inspired by a famous videogame. I’m just hope I’m wrong because we’ve seen to many of those.