Back in July, we brought you some quotes from producer/director, Gore Verbinski about the long-gestating big-screen adaptation of Take-Two Interactive‘s epic video game, BioShock. Verbinski said that they are trying to make the film, and that it has to be an R rated movie – saying, “We don’t want to dumb it down, we don’t want to make it PG-13. We want to keep it really edgy, and it’s a huge bill”.

Now, speaking to DC radio station 106.7, BioShock video game designer Ken Levine makes the adaptation sound a whole lot less likely.

Levine said:

“It is something we are actively talking about and actively working on.” That doesn’t mean filming of the project is 100 percent certain. “The movie business is complicated – I can’t tell you whether it’s going to happen for sure or it’s not going to happen for sure, “But it’s something we are actively discussing, quite actively, and actively working on.”

BioShock is currently slated to hit theaters in 2013.