Guillermo Del Toro has revealed that he once tried to bring the popular video game BioShock to the big screen, but the project was ultimately abandoned after what he described as a "disastrous" phone call. In an interview with IGN as part of the IGN30 Icons series, Del Toro said he was involved in the early stages of the BioShock film project but decided not to continue due to "tumultuous" and "disastrous" discussions. He also mentioned that he no longer wants to direct adaptations of video games, as he has grown discouraged after recent attempts ended in failure. The idea of Del Toro working on a BioShock movie had been the subject of rumors for years. In 2017, he admitted he would love to see the game's story adapted for the cinema, after a previous attempt by director Gore Verbinski fell through. Del Toro confirmed that he was officially involved in the abandoned BioShock project, which was scrapped due to tensions. He explained that adapting a video game for the cinema was challenging because of the differences in narrative structure between the two mediums. While he did not specify what made the calls so "tumultuous" and "disastrous," he described them as "among the most catastrophic that I have ever received." Despite the failed attempt, Del Toro said that BioShock is one of his favorite games, a detail he shared during the same interview. He also mentioned that he plays Angry Birds almost every day. Throughout his career, Del Toro has been involved in several major video games, including Pretty Project and Death Stranding. However, after the failure and cancellation of InSane, his trilogy of horror and cinematic games, he said he hesitates to create his own games in the future. He described making his own games as "simply too much for me." Del Toro expressed admiration for Death Stranding and PT (which later became Silent Hills), praising the game designer Hideo Kojima as a "pure artist." He said that most of PT was based on his own ideas and that he deeply respected Kojima's storytelling abilities. After the cancellation of InSane, Del Toro noted that he saw ideas similar to his own in other video games and thought, "Oh, someone else has already done it. That's great." The full IGN interview with Guillermo Del Toro is now available for viewing.