News culture It’s been 18 years since the Metal Gear Solid film adaptation was in development, and we finally have some reassuring news
After being practically forgotten, the Metal Gear Solid film project is back in the news and is finally making waves. However, the latter doesn’t seem to have anything really concrete…
Still on the right track
More than four years after the announcement made with great fanfare, Things are going very quietly around the film adaptation project “Metal Gear Solid”. In fact, the last news about him was more than two years ago, when Oscar Isaac – who was to play the soldier – stated: “We keep searching, we search like Solid Snake. In search of history we climb the air ducts” while an exchange on the microphone from IGN.
But it was ultimately in an interview for an article by Brian Crecente for Game page that Avi Arad – producer of the film and known for the adaptation of Uncharted – gave an update on the situation. “We are still working on the script, but I can’t talk about it yet“, he explains. “I think everyone will be very excited and surprised” he continues, This suggests that there are many surprises waiting to be revealed. He concludes: “I think it would be great to make a good Metal Gear because it is much more meditative than other adaptations. Personally, I want it to be great“.
Soothing words
The film Metal Gear Solid Therefore, Sony Pictures seems to be still on the right track and is The film was entrusted to director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, best known for his work on “Kong: Skull Island”. The same filmmaker who in a Interview for WGTC in 2017, explains how complicated it was to convert the license into a film with the statement: “It is one of the most delicate and idiosyncratic properties on the planet, where the voice of creator Hideo Kojima demonstrates all his genius“.
“This is one of the features that Hollywood can most easily screw up” he explains. “Luckily, there are some very smart producers on this project. It’s the kind of thing where it would be very easy for Hollywood to say, “Oh, it’s like Mission: Impossible!” No, it’s not Mission: Impossible. “It’s like GI Joe!” No, it’s not GI Joe. Metal Gear Solid is Metal Gear Solid and can only be Metal Gear Solid“, he continues, affirming that “theThe tone of this film can take itself very seriously at times, be very intense, and the next moment it can be very silly and very eccentric. There is no other property on the planet that I want to protect and monitor more than that of Metal Gear Solid“, he concludes, something reassuring for the fans.
