More details on the Metal Gear Solid movie
At last year’s E3, Konami revealed that work on a live-action movie based on Metal Gear Solid is now underway. We all found out about this via a pamphlet for Studio Kojima, the development house headed by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima.
Since then we haven’t gotten much details about the project, much less any word on who will be will be working on the movie. This has changed recently as Sony Pictures Entertainment vice chairman Yair Landau revealed that his studio is developing the project. After Landau delivered a keynote address in Las Vegas, Landau told this to GameSpot:
We’re working with the Metal Gear guys…. It’s a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie telling. But the question is, How do you translate Snake’s experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?
Landau also hinted that the “Metal Gear Solid” movie may just be the beginning. Landau hints that they’re working on ideas for a possible EverQuest movie.
The “Metal Gear Solid” movie is currently the highest-profile game-film project in Hollywood. Top spot used to be held by the Peter Jackson-produced Halo adaptation, which is now unfortunately in development limbo.
Given how much we’ve been burned before by Uwe Boll (we’re not saying he sucks, that’s a matter of opinion, we believe it’s safe to say though, that we all expected a lot more from his films), we urge caution. Let’s see…what else has Sony Pictures Entertainment done before? As a distributor, they’ve had their hands in the Spider-Man franchise. What else? Oh, and as a production company they’ve done what? Hmn…oh yeah, “Spider-Man 2”.
We’re now asking you folks: Should we all be hopeful? Should we expect something that is miles away from the fan-made film we embedded above?
Via Gamespot
At last year’s E3, Konami revealed that work on a live-action movie based on Metal Gear Solid is now underway. We all found out about this via a pamphlet for Studio Kojima, the development house headed by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima.
Since then we haven’t gotten much details about the project, much less any word on who will be will be working on the movie. This has changed recently as Sony Pictures Entertainment vice chairman Yair Landau revealed that his studio is developing the project. After Landau delivered a keynote address in Las Vegas, Landau told this to GameSpot:
We’re working with the Metal Gear guys…. It’s a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie telling. But the question is, How do you translate Snake’s experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?
Landau also hinted that the “Metal Gear Solid” movie may just be the beginning. Landau hints that they’re working on ideas for a possible EverQuest movie.
The “Metal Gear Solid” movie is currently the highest-profile game-film project in Hollywood. Top spot used to be held by the Peter Jackson-produced Halo adaptation, which is now unfortunately in development limbo.
Given how much we’ve been burned before by Uwe Boll (we’re not saying he sucks, that’s a matter of opinion, we believe it’s safe to say though, that we all expected a lot more from his films), we urge caution. Let’s see…what else has Sony Pictures Entertainment done before? As a distributor, they’ve had their hands in the Spider-Man franchise. What else? Oh, and as a production company they’ve done what? Hmn…oh yeah, “Spider-Man 2”.
We’re now asking you folks: Should we all be hopeful? Should we expect something that is miles away from the fan-made film we embedded above?
Via Gamespot
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