Not to mention, way more diving suit-wearing mutants with giant drills on one hand.
The game's critically acclaimed storyline (centered on a dystopian underwater city created by a combination of Walt Disney and Ayn Rand) is ripe for the taking -- and there's one director willing to do it. Gore Verbinski of Pirates Of The Caribbean fame is a big fan of BioShock's "cinematic potential" and "strong narrative," and we've already talked about why he would actually be perfect for this adaptation (assuming he doesn't succumb to the Burton Syndrome and cast Johnny Depp for every part).
Verbinski was all set to shoot a BioShock movie in 2009, and fittingly for someone named "Gore," he wasn't planning to shy away from the game's violence and general fucked-up-ness. In his own words, he "just really, really wanted to make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, 'Jesus Christ!'" The movie's concept art confirms that, at the very least, this thing would have been visually amazing:
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