A new Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation is in the works from Final Destination: Bloodlines directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stein and Lipovsky have signed a new first look deal with Sony. As part of the partnership, their Wonderlab company will see the pair directing films as well as producing titles for other directors. “The focus is creating wildly fun, commercial, character-driven, genre-bending films.”
As part of that deal, the pair have been announced as directors of Sony’s Metal Gear Solid movie which is being produced by father-and-son team Avi and Ari Arad. “Metal Gear Solid was nothing short of a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that forever revolutionized video games,” Lipovsky and Stein said in a statement. “We are thrilled and honored to bring Hideo Kojima’s iconic characters and unforgettable world to life.”
However details about cast, plot and release date are yet to be confirmed.
Back in 2020, Oscar Isaac was cast as Solid Snake in Sony’s planned adaptation of Metal Gear Solid which would have been directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. However the project never went into production. In 2022, Isaac was “still hopeful” the film would happen “because there’s so much potential.”
He went on to say he took the role because he’s a huge Metal Gear Solid fan. “I love the feeling that the game would give me every time I’d play. It’s just a strangely isolated, mournful, lonely game to play that has these incredible moments of violence and terror, with these weird, psychedelic concepts and villains. But, yes, it’s kind of like psychedelic military horror things that happen. Underneath the whole thing, it’s an anti-war story.”
Original creator Hideo Kojima has confirmed he’s working on a new action espionage game inspired by Metal Gear Solid, but it won’t launch before 2030.
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