BioShock - Movie Details Released

The latest Bioshock development is 2K Games' announcement that  the world of Rapture  is moving to the screen, and it appears to have attracted some talent for the project.

Here's a snip from the offical press release: 

2K Games announced today that it has reached an agreement for BioShock®, the universally acclaimed smash-hit video game, to be developed as a feature film by Universal Pictures...

The prospect of bringing this blockbuster game to life has attracted not only a major studio, but top Hollywood talent. Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, is slated to direct and produce the BioShock movie. John Logan, Academy Award-nominated writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd, is in talks to do the screenplay.