Filmmaker Francis Lawrence will direct the movie BioShock for Netflix

Francis Lawrence, who helmed The Hunger Games, will helm Netflix’s live-action BioShock adaptation. Streaming service Netflix has roped in filmmaker Francis Lawrence to direct the feature adaptation of the popular video game “BioShock”. According to entertainment news outlet Deadline, the streaming service has partnered with the video game holding company Take-Two Interactive and its game publisher subsidiary 2K to produce the project. Released in 2007, “BioShock” is a first-person shooter set in a crumbling underwater city named Rapture, its society fragmented in a civil war, with many inhabitants addicted to a genetic enhancement serum that gives them superhuman powers while also living in fear of Big Daddies, mutated humans who have been grafted into diving suits. Lawrence is best known for directing movies such as “Constantine”, “I Am Legend”, “Water for Elephants” and four “Hunger Games” films.