We got the chance to sit down with Francis Lawrence, the director of Netflix’s BioShock movie, who gave us some of the gritty details as to why this adaptation has taken so long to make.

The BioShock movie is a project that’s been floating in limbo for more than a decade. The film initially had Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) attached to direct, but it fell through. Later, Guillermo del Toro was in talks to helm the steampunk movie, but that didn’t work out, either.

Now, Lawrence — who directed almost every Hunger Games movie and, most recently, The Long Walk — is taking over. Lawrence chatted about his history with the BioShock movie in an interview for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which comes to theaters next month. When asked about what projects he’d like to adapt in the future, he mentioned BioShock but admitted it’s been “tricky” to translate to the silver screen.

“I'm also working on BioShock. That's another one that I've been really trying to get going, which is also at Netflix, which is partially tricky. That's a tricky adaptation, because it's an amazing, amazing world. But as a player, you are the lead character of that story. So cracking that is a tough one, but we're getting close, which is also exciting,” he told us.

Lawrence admitted the film has been in his orbit since 2009, saying that Verbinski actually approached him about it — essentially offering it up to him on a silver platter — after his vision for the movie was shot down by Universal.

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