Streaming service Netflix has roped in filmmaker Francis Lawrence to direct the feature adaptation of 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.

Writer Michael Green, who most recently worked on The Jungle Cruise and Death on the Nile, will pen the script.

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.

Into this world is dropped the game's protagonist, Jack, a survivor of a mysterious plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean.

The project will be produced by Roy Lee through his Vertigo Entertainment along with Lawrence for about:blank and 2K. Cameron MacConomy and Strauss Zelnick are the executive producers.

Lawrence is best known for directing movies such as Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants and four Hunger Games films.

He is currently working on The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, the prequel movie to The Hunger Games.

Ewan McGregor to lead Paramount+ drama series A Gentleman In Moscow

Hollywood star Ewan McGregor has been tapped to play the lead role in British drama series A Gentleman In Moscow.

The Paramount+ series is an adaptation of Amor Towles' 2016 international best-selling novel of the same name.

Paramount Premium Group CEO David Nevins shared the casting news during a session at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

According to entertainment website Deadline, McGregor will play Count Alexander Rostov who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history.

“It's an amazing, wonderful story and I am very excited to get to play such a fabulous role,” the actor said.

Prior to McGregor, veteran actor-filmmaker Kenneth Branagh was attached to play the part.

The series will be produced by eOne in association with VIS, the international studio division of Paramount Global. Production is set to begin later this year.