The Long-Awaited Metal Gear Solid Movie’s Script is Being Written

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As long as I’ve been a fan of Hideo Kojima’s revolutionary but nutty series, there has always been talk of a Metal Gear Solid movie. As the franchise has expanded and its publishers now seemingly intent on taking the easy route to financial gain, however, it has fallen by the wayside.

But it isn’t dead. Far from it – a big-screen adaptation is now more realistic than it ever was before.

Speaking to Collider, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who is directing this year’s Kong: Skull Island, was very passionate about getting the project off the ground, even disclosing that it was currently in the pre-production stages. Even more promising, he isn’t going to make it another sanitised Hollywood adaptation:

“That is a property that I will fight tooth and nail to make sure is done properly because it’s so easy to screw it up and so easy for a studio to try and make it into G.I. Joe or try and make it into Mission: Impossible or try and make it into something that it’s not. Metal Gear Solid needs to be exactly what it needs to be, which is Metal Gear Solid.

“I think it’d be a massive film, I think it’d be an incredible film, but it needs to be done in a way that completely honors what Metal Gear is because it’s a classic and it’s a seminal work not just in video games, but in media.”

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Seemingly undeterred by just how expansive the Metal Gear Solid universe is, Vogt-Roberts also disclosed that it will either be PG-13 or rated R, depending on what kind of budget they need. Considering how every entry in the series has had at least one bloodbath and features writhing octopus women, the latter option would be the only one that would work.

“There are hyper-violent parts to Metal Gear but I would not necessarily call the hyper-violent part the core element of it versus like the tone and the voice and the philosophies that the characters exhibit. Those characters sort of are these walking philosophies, so I think nailing that part is far more important necessarily than thinking about the rating at this point, because right now we’re just trying to get the best version of it.”

The Metal Gear Solid movie is in its infancy, but if it has a director this passionate, it should be okay. The only real question is how they take a series like MGS and turn into something that would interest the casual cinemagoer. Judging by how much the AC movie underperformed, it’s not going to be easy.

Whatever the case, there’s no way it won’t be better than Metal Gear Survive.

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