Metal Gear Solid movie announced, Avi Arad to produce
- Posted August 30th, 2012 at 02:13 EDT by Kyle Prahl
- 11 Comments
At today's Metal Gear 25th Anniversary event in Tokyo, Hideo Kojima took the stage to officially announce that an oft-rumored Metal Gear Solid movie is officially in the works.
Posters with the slogan "Metal Gear Solid Hollywood Movie" appeared at the event, and Kojima confirmed the project to those in attendance. Avi Arad will be the producer on the film. Arad is widely known for producing many notable Marvel movies in the last decade, including the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy, Fantastic Four, the X-Men trilogy, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Spider-Man, and many more. Arad has also been attached to other Sony video game adaptations, including Uncharted and a rumored inFAMOUS movie.
As Kotaku reports, Michael De Luca of Boogie Nights was attached as producer as recently as 2008, but that version of the Metal Gear Solid movie ultimately fell through due to budgetary conflicts. Apparently, Konami was aiming for a big-budget version of the film that Hollywood didn't have faith in.
Are you excited for a Metal Gear Solid movie? Should the venerated movie franchise simply be left alone? Give us your thoughts in the comments below.
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Joe Zombie
- 2:08am EDT - August 30th, 2012
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On the fence about this one. I have a feeling Hollywood is just going to destroy it. Look what they did with Resident Evil. And Prince of Persia. And every Uwe Boll movie. And most other video game movies. And just about every movie that comes out these days.
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BOZTRADAMUS |
BOZTRADAMUS- 8:33am EDT - August 30th, 2012
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Oh god! I can just feel them picking someone terrible to play Snake! I got a bad feeling about this many MGS fans will be hurt but I hope somehow the come through!
Theres only 2 people i think could pull off a snake roll - 1 Clint eastwood as Old Snake and 2 Christain Bale as any other young snake!
Clint East in Gran Torino really made me say yes he would smash the roll as old snake coz he is a rusky old vet just like snake! What you think people? -
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1solidsnake |
solid1snake67- 8:51am EDT - August 30th, 2012
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if hey cant find someone to play snake thats good im gonna be pissed off, it better not be christain bale or this will be my first time ever writing the studio. first off as a metal gear fan i am agqainst them making a movie, but on the other hand i want it. so i'll be watching closely on this. kojima san better be there to over see it!!
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BOZTRADAMUS |
BOZTRADAMUS- 9:02am EDT - August 30th, 2012
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I wasent too sure about Bale too but cant think of anyone else within the industry. Bale is a great acter i believe.
Maybe just get a fresh talent to play snake, that way we wont look at them and see clint or bale or whoever. We meet him for first time and get to know him as snake through the film. might be a good way to do it? If anyone understood what I was sayin there lol -
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KyleOnTheRun
- 2:25pm EDT - August 30th, 2012
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@9 Agreed. Leave it be - video games and movies don't to cross-over media boundaries.
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