Metal Gear Solid Hollywood Movie Announced
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 30, 2012 20:19 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Anniversaries, Hideo Kojima, Hollywood, Metal Gear, Movies, Sony, USA
Metal Gear Solid is the latest franchise to be given over to Hollywood’s tender mercies, with fans of the series left wondering whether the movie will follow in the glorious footsteps of Hollywood’s past video game adaptations, or the even more esteemed path of its many adaptations of popular Japanese entertainment franchises.
According to reports, as part of its glorious 25th anniversary the Metal Gear franchise will be getting a live action Hollywood movie adaptation produced by both Columbia Pictures and Sony.
Details of casting and which parts of the sprawling franchise will be first in line have yet to be announced.
Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima explains that he had been searching for years for a suitable production team to create a fitting movie adaptation, but with the availability of Avi Arad to oversee things and his reputed success at adapting American comic book classics (or Marvel comics at any rate) he had confidence he would do Snake justice as well.
Arad for his part pledges “not to do anything bad to the Metal Gear Kojima created” and promises “to make a wonderful movie in the spirit of the original,” doubtless dispelling the doubts of all but the most pessimistic of naysayers.
However, whilst few doubt Kojima’s competence or the power of the Metal Gear franchise, equally few will be able to forget Hollywood’s record at producing adaptations of both video games and beloved Japanese entertainment franchises…
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From the guy that helped to give us X men 3 and Spider Man 3...
Hoo boy...
And pretty much every *other* Marvel movie.
I say we get Michael Bay directing this and Tom Cruise can play Snake.
He also produced cartoon shows.
" Snack ? Snack ?!! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK !!! " T_T
FU Hollywood...
Christian Bale or Hugh Jackman for Snake
Plitskin is tall so we need the Hugh Jackman!
There's already an MGS movie, it's called Escape from N.Y and Escape from L.A. Even has the original "Snake" in it.
This. Escape from New York was a huge influence on MGS, and Snake Plisken was Hideo's basis for Solid Snake.
So, an American film based on a Japanese video game inspired by an American film. It's doable.
David Hayter as Snake or GTFO!
If David Hayter plays Snake they can have all the money I will ever earn for the rest of eternity
One can only hope they don't botch this... oh god I hope michale Bay leaves it alone... barf
Well at least they couldn't make the plot any more stupid.
Speak for yourself.
The plot has always been great in the MGS series.
LOL, yeah it's real Oscar material with the rollerblading fat guy in a bomb squad suit...
Gee, last I heard 'plot' was a string of story progression, not the description of appearing characters.
Always? It's always been great? Do you even know what a plot is, because Kojima doesn't seem to.
i pray that they won't fuck up with this one
And they will. Because God likes to troll
But Kojima is God! And his trolling usually don't make his games less enjoyable...
This had better be good...
It'll be just like the game but shorter!
and uncontrollable to the boot
Just like MGS.
I dun think it would make a good movie anyway. Metal Gear series were great games and I enjoyed them quite a lot. But at the end of the day I still have to admit the fact it's plot is 80's B rated action flick at best.
80's B rated flicks didn't have the twists of MGS, especially the first game's.
Hollyweird has screwed-up so many adaptations that they now qualify as serial rapists.
Bravo, well said sir.
Japan did even worse.
Space Battleship Yamato is a good example of shit adaptions.
You mean like Speed Racer?
I don't even know if this movie will be about Solid Snake or Big Boss.
This will do the MSG no good. It will crash and burn.
Ewwwwww anymore raep done to MSG now?
When video-games and anime go to die. No, they just HAVE to reach the "general audience" by turning franchises and shows into generic hollywood shit!
Final Fantasy Spirits Within=Horrible
Dragon Ball Movie=Horrible
Why do these franchises have no justice done to them!?
Because the source material is crap to begin with. Garbage in, garbage out.
Sigh if you ask my own humble opinion david hayter cant be replaced with just any actor.
True, he can be replaced with an inanimate carbon rod, or a cardboard box.
Why does everyone automatically assume this is going to be bad? This has every reason to be good.
Metal Gear is mostly cutscenes, anyway, so you can just have more cinematic scenes in place of gameplay.
I got an idea that will make this work: Have David Hayter write the screenplay. Hayter is a writer, he loves the franchise. He did the screenplay to Watchmen, and, ending aside, it was a very faithful adaptation. All they need to do is make it like a "Stale Beer Type" spy movie.
And besides, assuming it's gonna be bad assumes that people can't change over time. More and more, Hollywood directors are becoming more tolerant of Japanese franchises. I know we all want this to be Japanese, but can we at least SEE it before we decry it?
They already made a Metal Gear Solid movie. It's called MGS4. But seriously though, don't think this is the best of ideas. MGS can get needlessly convoluted in places. Not exactly movie material, in my opinion. But Hollywood isn't a democracy so any complaints or reservations we have would go ignored.
...why can video game based movies be animated? Why do they always have to be live action? Because if its animated it'll cost more money??!! I dont give a single fuck, make it animated damn it! Because in my opnion, video-game/anime based movies should be animated because it will always come out right and please the fans this way. If was a director, and i was directing a movie based on a video game/anime, I would make it animated, I dont care how much it costs. I'll make it happen and please the fans.
I'll try to explain as nice as possible.
In the 1960s, US cartoon writers found that their shows were terrible. They proposed an alternate method of getting views: market them to children. After all, they wouldn't notice or care about any of the numerous problems.
Somehow, this completely mutated into "Animation is strictly a kids' medium." Animated movies tend to be PG, while live action movies tend to be more PG-13 or R. When was the last time an R-Rated cartoon was made? No, literally the last time it was made?
Doctor: "Sir?"
Kojima: "What is it doctor? What did you find?"
Doctor: "Your show sir...has been diagnosed with
Americanitis...and it's terminal..."
Kojima: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
I didn't notice a lot of overt Japanese culture in MGS anyway. If it were terminal, it would've been paired with some other kind of disease, most likely Complicated Plot Syndrome.
It'll probably be a good movie, people just need to quit judging movies based on external factors and let a movie stand on its own two feet.
Where's Michael Bay ?
Metal Gear Solid + Americans = Solid Failure.
America SUCKS! ...in America!
holywood can only do comics justice. they can't do games justice unless it is MK 1. MK 2 was crap.
Well snake is american or something like that. Not much can go wrong with this unless they go and do a dragon ball.
I'm really sorry Metal Gear Solid, and its fans.
Me I'm not a fan of the franchise at all but no one deserves to be Hollywood's cow bitch.
And who knows, if fans are lucky the movie might get stuck on pre production and never be made.
I think that provided Kojima gets to maintain some level of QC over the script/direction, things should turn out okay... maybe... I hope?
They've got to have Cate Blanchett as The Boss. Sure that's MGS3 and this is MGS, but hopefully they'll have a flashback or something as an excuse. She's perfect for it in every way.
Hollywood must burn!