Bioshock 3 with Bioshock movie AND Bioshock MMO?

With details of Bioshock 2 Sea of Dreams just beginning to surface ( :-) ) , news that there will be a third installment to the franchise has already been confirmed by the boss of Take Two Strauss Zelnick.  It was suggested by Strauss Zelnick that Bioshock 3 will be released alongside an accompanying Bioshock Movie directed by Gore Verbinski of Pirates of the Caribbean director-ing fame.

Speaking with investors, Strauss Zelnick stated that in response to questions about a Bioshock movie, rather than a release with Bioshock 2, it's far more likely to be released to coincide with Bioshock 3.  The Bioshock Movie, from initial reports, looks more likely to cover the events of the first Bioshock game (IMDB keywords are Survivor, Underwater, Plane Crash and Utopia) but as we've seen before movies have no issues with amalgamating one or more games/books into one movie.

It's good news that this relatively new franchise is taking on new and bigger projects and there can definitely be comparisons drawn with the Halo franchise which successfully launched a new franchise that spawned 4 games, books and at some point, a movie. It's always good to see new franchises, games and ideas released into the games industry to compete with the latest version of FIFA and Madden with their latest incremental improvement. March has also seen reports that the Take-Two team are considering a Bioshock MMO game, which really would be a massive project but good news for fans.

With both bioshock 3 and the bioshock movie set for release towards the back end of 2010 or 2011, i'm sure a lot of people are already getting excited!