“Bioshock” takes place in an underwater city based on the free market principles of Ayn Rand, but things have gone disastrously wrong. Players control a pilot who crash-lands at a secret entrance to the city, called Rapture, and is drawn into a power struggle during which he discovers that his will is not as free as he’d thought.

“I think the whole utopia-gone-wrong story that’s cleverly unveiled to players is just brimming with cinematic potential,” said Verbinski. “Of all the games I’ve played, this is one that I felt has a really strong narrative.”

John Logan who wrote the screenplay for Gladiator and The Aviator is in talks to write this one. Verbinski will serve as director and producer. Verbinski, of course, is the director behind the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films.

No release date has even been targeted, but Verbinski has said he plans to start pre-production as soon as Logan’s script is finished and approved. A sequel to the game is scheduled to be released in 2009 which will almost certainly come before the film.

The big news is that Pirates of the Caribbean doesn’t appear to be done. According to AICN and Slashfilm, the studio is planning to give us a 4th movie in the super box office successful franchise.

Slashfilm reports:

Disney has been developing a fourth film in the Pirates franchise following the release of At World’s End. Rumor has it that the new film will be a spin-off following Captain Jack Sparrow, the character played by Johnny Depp. Many have speculated that Depp will be on a journey to find either the lost city of Atlantis or a more contained budget-friendly search for the Fountain of Youth. I’m sure Disney is eyeing a late May, June or early July release as that was the release schedule for Black Pearl, World’s End and Dead Man’s Chest.

Sounds cool. It would be great to see a Pirates without a convoluted plot like the one that just confused the crap out of me in At the World’s End.

Along with Pirates, Disney is also working on Cars 2, which is reported to be in 3D, National Treasure 3 and Tron 3D. All of these are rumored to be released in 2011.

None of them, aside from Pirates, sound that exciting to me, I haven’t seen the second National Treasure yet and may not ever, but the idea of a new Tron could be interesting.

Read more about it at Aint it Cool News.