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Ok this is getting out of hand.Please no more comics-to-movies or games-to-movies..
Metal Gear Solid movie announced
After years of rumours and aborted projects, a Metal Gear Solid movie has been officially announced. Columbia Pictures has taken on the hit video game series, with Avi Arad set to produce.
The Metal Gear games have long been acclaimed for their cinematic qualities, and series creator Hideo Kojima is a self-confessed movie geek. However, attempts to bring the futuristic stealth adventure to the big screen have so far failed.
Boogie Nights and Moneyball producer Mike De Luca was working on an adaptation back in 2008, but that fell through two years later.
The latest attempt was announced at a celebration of the series' 25th anniversary in Tokyo on Wednesday. According to US game site, Kotaku, Arad, who founded Marvel Studios and produced the hugely successful Iron Man and Amazing Spider-Man movies, took to the stage during the event to announce the project.
He told audiences that he saw video games as the comics of today, and that Columbia would take its time to ensure its movie captured the nuances of the Metal Gear universe.
Game adaptations do not have an illustrious history – to put it politely. From the risible Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter tie-ins of the early nineties to the excruciating straight-to-DVD travesties of German director/producer Uwe Boll, video game licenses have often been seen as a quick and easy way to make cash.
However, Hollywood has made many many millions over the past five years by taking comic books seriously – and now that it is running out of major superhero characters to bring to screen, it may well turn its gaze to video game brands.
Arad already has two other big game adaptations on his books: the action adventure Uncharted and the sci-fi shooter inFamous.
The Metal Gear series, which started out on the cult MSX computer in 1987, but became world famous when it hit PlayStation in 1998, would seem to be highly suitable for movie adaptation.
The games are known for their long cinematic story sequences and film references. Plus, the convoluted plot, which involves espionage agent Solid Snake battling terrorist groups and rogue government agencies, is ripe for a long-running movie franchise.
Currently, the Metal project has no director and no actors attached, although Kojima expressed his admiration for Christopher Nolan. That may well be wishful thinking.
Ok this is getting out of hand.Please no more comics-to-movies or games-to-movies..
One of my favorite games.
I'd like it that way.
Usually the problem facing videogame adaptations is that they're left trying to pad out a plot that is really just a paper thin excuse for the player to run around doing action hero stuff. The problem here is really sort of the opposite. I'm not going to say that the plotting and dialogue are all that incredible, but the sort of labyrthine conspiracies and double and triple crosses, as well as the overt political statements, that give the series its unique iden y don't seem at all well suited for a 2 hour format. At best you'll end up with an Under Siege or The Rock clone. If they were going to do it all they'd be better off taking a run at something closer to 24, which I always thought owed a certain debt to MGS anyways.
Not really sure the point. Didn't Guns of the Patriots have 90-minute cutscenes?
Now that you mentioned 24, a series would work better for live action MGS based show.
That's what they said but that's obviously exaggeration by the haters.
No one cutscene is longer than maybe 20 or so minutes.
What made it seem that long was back to back cutscenes and whatnot. And even so it was nowhere near 90 minutes.
I'd say it is closer to 50-60 minutes.
Never played MGS games but 20 minute cutscenes are pretty damn long for videogame standards. Considering the fact that games are supposed to be interactive entertainment first and some other pretentious bull second.
So they've confirmed that it's MGS1, as opposed to Metal Gear 1? Because I've heard both.
too bad Avi Arad lost his edge
Looking at Avi's body of work isn't very promising for a MGS movie.
This is never going to happen.
sounds gay like heman
I'm gonna you so hard hemann.
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