MGS movie deal secured

By Paul Loughrey Published 11 May, 2006

Kojima's going to Hollywood!

Following Hideo Kojima's confirmation that a Metal Gear Solid movie is in the pipeline, Solid Snake's dad has announced that a contract with a top Hollywood studio has finally been, er, finalised.

In a feature in the Kojima Productions brochure handed out at E3, Kojima said: "I have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a long time, but we have finally settled on an arrangement.

"False facts aside, a movie project is underway. I have finalized a Class-A contract with a party in Hollywood."

Those "false facts" would probably include rumours that Uwe Boll would direct the film - something which Kojima confirmed is most definitely not happening.

There's no word on writers or, more importantly, actors yet either. But Kojima has repeatedly stated that he had no intention of adapting the series into a film unless he was entirely happy with the whole set up, so we're not going to find Ross Kemp taking time out from Ultimate Force or anything silly like that.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • tonynibbles #1 6 years ago

    w000t!

    If its done proper - infact - anything like the games - this has alot of potenial!

    SNAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKEEEE!

  • Scurrminator #2 6 years ago

    that's good news, he should probably direct himself, he seems quite good at directing the action in his games, just keep him away from the preaching in his script - urgh.

    David Hayter for Solid Snake!

    Actually David Hayter said he would love to work in some capacity on a MG movie, even if it was only writing the script.
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/06 @ 12:17

  • lambtron #3 6 years ago

    Man it HAS to be Hayter's voice at least. He IS Snake in that respect as far as I'm concerned.

    IMHO it a shame it will almost certainly be live action and not just an animated (either CG or Manga or mix of the two a la Appleseed) flick. But teh Mainstream wouldn't buy that. Fuckers.

    Oh and I agree about not letting Kojima anywhere near the script - well at the very least make sure there is someone to have editorial control and take out all the silly bits.

    la-le-li-lo-li or whatever it was indeed. Heh.
    Edited by 2 at 11/05/06 @ 12:31

  • I_Have_The_Power #4 6 years ago

    Would Kurt Russel make a good old snake, i wonder?

    Thats who Solid was always based on.

  • TakeTheVeil #5 6 years ago

    the movie is gonna shame the series. Its bound to.. id love it to be good.. even have a good CG movie.. but it wont.. itll be shite.. I thought the same about the Resi movies and they were all shite. If they just took the story of one of the games or books they wouldve been fine

  • PlugMonkey #6 6 years ago

    Given that MGS has forced me to sit through some of the most tedious cutscenes in gaming history, my expectations are no high.

  • Berklee #7 6 years ago

    Forget Kurt Russel, it should be RON MOSS!

  • Talha #8 6 years ago

    The only way to make this movie good is to hire Uwe Boll as director and Roland Emmerich as producer.

  • Dizzy #9 6 years ago

    "The only way to make this movie good is to hire Uwe Boll as director and Roland Emmerich as producer"

    :)

    There is no way this movie can be made good, not even Uwe Boll could do it. (well ok... John Carpenter could).

  • Psi #10 6 years ago

    give it to michel bay!!! lol

    to be honest Tony Scott would be prefect but would never touch it with a bargepole. Quality over content is the way to go with these stupid ideas.

    I think when a franchise passes a number of sales it gets flagged for a movie. Bet there's a marketing equasion out there where you put the numbers in and get a yes or a no.

    Mario the film.... shudders...

  • madgfx #11 6 years ago

    Sean Bean would be cool as Snake.
    but they will prob pick some lame yank for part who will suck.
    Kurt Russel that guy is way too old
    Hope they dont do a doom ahhhhhhhhh mortal kombat ahhhhhhh Resident Evil Ahhh Tomb Raider ahhhhh Street fighter aahhh Super Mario Ahhhhhhhhh

  • lambtron #12 6 years ago

    /agrees with Psi about Mario Movie.

    Now that was a HORROR movie :(.

  • Rociel #13 6 years ago

    @madgfx

    Problem with you argument is that Snake IS the yank. He is the John Wayne Yank archetype, casting Sean Bean as Snake would suck. However, I think we know of a British person within the franchise. Someone who looks rather similar to Snake?





    For the slow people in the audience, I mean Liquid.

  • madgfx #14 6 years ago

    Snake a John Wayne Yank archetype lol thats funny did you ever see john wayne sneak up stealth style and kill some one.
    As 4 snake being a yank he's not your Typical lets blow sh*t up action Type yank.
    I really don't think there are many yank actor's that fit the bill for snake.
    So who you have as Snake Rociel
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/06 @ 15:47

  • Eighthours #15 6 years ago

    Unfortunately, you guys are going to find that those cut-scenes you thought were good just plain won't work on the silver screen.

  • dadrester #16 6 years ago

    naomi hunter = monica belluchi

    [edit] oh yeah and noooooo not a movie... plus hi everyone i'm back (you were gone, blab blab...)
    Edited by 1 at 11/05/06 @ 16:32

  • Lyingarden #17 6 years ago

    Meh, i'm not expecting too much of this. It'll just be like one long, drawn out cut-scene. Zzzzzzzzzzz...

  • dadrester #18 6 years ago

    Forget Kurt Russel, it should be RON MOSS!

    forget ron moss it should be RON JEREMY

  • YourMessageHere #19 6 years ago

    "There's no word on writers or, more importantly, actors yet"

    Er, you mean that the other way round, right? MGS isn't going to be a hard film to act in, any number of people could do it (which is not to say who plays who isn't important) but as noted the cutscenes are important, which denotes that this film needs to have an actual plot.

    Therefore, in order for the plot to not appear total arse, it's vital that someone sensible writes it. To illustrate, take the film of Silent Hill: it wasn't brilliant, but it was pretty good, and without doubt the best game-to-film adaptation yet made by miles. It was well written. Every other game-to-film adaptation to date: no good. All not well written.