Once again, we could report on this story so much easier if we actually owned an Xbox 360, but – since that’s not happening in the next month or so – we usually get by on the kindness of Xbox-owning strangers. That’s why we know about BioShock, one of the best reviewed games lat year, pre-Halo 3 and GTA IV.

BioShock takes place in an underwater art deco civilization where your hero must kill little girls to suck the “Adam” out of them. There’s also a gene splicing plot, some mutants and giant guys in diving suits with drills for hands.

And now it’s got a director.

Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of The Caribbean trilogy has been attached by Universal to direct a big-screen adaptation of BioShick, which couldn’t be a better choice. Whyy? The dude took a children’s theme-park ride and built it into a trilogy that was almost able to sustain a three-picture arc (we can argue about where it fell off later).

That takes some talent. Combined with the BioShock story, which was widely reviewed as having good writing to begin with, We’re sure that Verbinski will find someway to make the death of tiny children to gain magic powers a little easier to swallow for mainstream audiences.