Source: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/j...ly-pen-sonys-metal-gear-solid-pic-1202610438/
It's happening, isn't it? It's finally happening and my heart is racing.
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Variety: ‘Jurassic World’ Scribe Derek Connolly to Write ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Film
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Source: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/j...ly-pen-sonys-metal-gear-solid-pic-1202610438/
It's happening, isn't it? It's finally happening and my heart is racing.
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Vogt-Roberts is an actual legit Metal Gear fanboy and also regardless Kong's quality, he does showed some great potential on that film. Have you seen it? Lots of Metal Gear inspired stuff happening even in that film.
I would love a faithful adaptation of the first Solid game, but I have a feeling that any attempt to make a Metal Gear film will be a confusing abomination like the Dark Tower movie.
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Please, if you are a Metal Gear Solid fan, if there's any Metal Gear Solid fan out here, I urge you to watch Kong: Skull Island. No, it isn't the best film of the year, but it isn't bad either and most of all, it showcases how much of a freaking fanboy Vogt-Roberts is. This has the potential to become a giant franchise for Sony. I don't see them going Dark Tower with this one.
Kong Skull island? Seemed like a load of banal dick waving when I watched it. Maybe I should rewatch.
I didn't care much for Jurassic World either.
Don't have too much confidence in the writer, but at least the director knows and loves the MGS games.
Really interested to see how this turns out, if it actually gets made, and I hope it does.
Really interested to see how this turns out, if it actually gets made, and I hope it does.
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There are several visual references to Metal Gear there. I was amazed how he got away with it while watching it. Jurassic World is my favorite of the Jurassic films, so this has me very excited. I feel like Sony is going BIG with this like they should. And do you know what would be crazy? If Sony stopped being stupid with Venom and stuff like Dark Tower and went with this pitch:
ZACK SNYDER'S GOD OF WAR, Starring Jason Momoa
I don't like BvS or MoS as much as the next guy, but I feel that this would fit Snyder's strenghts perfectly, a rated R epic with Kratos as Momoa? This thing writes itself.
Even if a good writer was involved, an MGS adaptation is such a recipe for disaster.
I can't wait. I expect Jupiter Ascending levels of poor decision-making.
I can't wait. I expect Jupiter Ascending levels of poor decision-making.
Avi Arad producing. Kong Skull Island's director. Jurassic World's writer.
Triple threat! CAN WAIT!
Triple threat! CAN WAIT!
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He is making Venom happening. Unfortunately. Also, Miles Morales animation, I think.
I still need to watch that movie. I recently saw Speed Racer. I managed to watch half of it. I like Wacowski stuff, nice visual identity. But they tend to miss the mark.
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Well, the maker of the Warcraft movie knows and loves the Warcraft games, too. Still, the movie was very ... mediocre.
Metal Gear Solid, to me, lives on a very fine line between being ridiculously over-the-top and being a 'serious' sci-fi spy story.
I'm unsure how anyone but Kojima could find that tonal balance. I still don't know how he does it.
Metal Gear isn't a movie scale story. It would be better served with the scope and scale of something like Discovery and told over a season.
Roberts is on record as saying that the movie would take place in several different time periods, not just depicting one specific game. So young Big Boss is pretty much a guarantee.
Pretty annoying headline, but it's good to see that Jordan is collabing with him again after doing Kong together. It means he can influence the script, rather than playing off of someone unknown to him prior.
I get the feeling they're just keep bringing writers in to dilute MGS into a 'normal' movie, devoid of everything what makes MGS, MGS. This movie is never going to get made as you and I (the gamers) would want to see it. I couldn't imagine how this would appeal to someone who knows nothing about the games as what makes the games so special is the characters, in-jokes, 4th wall breaking and absurd stories. Regular people will find it weird and the movie will probably bomb.
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People thought that Deadpool was impossible to make for similar reasons. And yet, here we are. Let's see what happens first. I trust Vogt-Roberts.
Jordan Vogt Roberts and the writer of Jurassic World. lmaoooo. this is gonna be such a piece of shit.
love the games but this is just gonna be a pile of crap. like sure the games have cheesy writing, but this movie belongs to like John Woo or Bong Joon Ho or somebody like that. Who would lean heavily into the absurdity/corniness of the whole thing whilst directing some dope action sequences.
love the games but this is just gonna be a pile of crap. like sure the games have cheesy writing, but this movie belongs to like John Woo or Bong Joon Ho or somebody like that. Who would lean heavily into the absurdity/corniness of the whole thing whilst directing some dope action sequences.
This always gets said at least once a year. I will never believe it until they have a trailer.
I will only ever care if Kojima directed it and Hayter played Snake.
I will only ever care if Kojima directed it and Hayter played Snake.
I.... this is actually not very promising. Any individual entry is complicated and stuffed enough to fill more than a movie, tryibg to fit multiple games worth of plots in one isnt very smart.
Well, to me as somewhone who has seen, but knows nothing about Deadpool; It's an R-rated superhero movie, foul language, humor, action and gore backed by an A list actor. I should think that's pretty marketable.
I have no doubt Vogt-Roberts has the best of intentions, but I just fear the Hollywood machine won't let a MGS movie be how it should be...
to be honest... I do not envy anybody who has to do this.
the safest bet is to just make a full movie out of one of the games. make it easier for people unfamiliar with the series and make it less massive in scale.
but I don't think that will happen... it probably will be a stealthy action movie taking plot elements from a number of MGS games.
with the fanbase behind these games, you basically just can lose.
it's impossible to make a movie or script equal to the games because there's just too much stuff to cover.
by simplifying the plot you will piss off many fans.
I always thought MGS to be more or less unfilmable or at least satisfactory filmable, so I fear it will take its place among all the other crappy video game movies.
well...we'll see.
the safest bet is to just make a full movie out of one of the games. make it easier for people unfamiliar with the series and make it less massive in scale.
but I don't think that will happen... it probably will be a stealthy action movie taking plot elements from a number of MGS games.
with the fanbase behind these games, you basically just can lose.
it's impossible to make a movie or script equal to the games because there's just too much stuff to cover.
by simplifying the plot you will piss off many fans.
I always thought MGS to be more or less unfilmable or at least satisfactory filmable, so I fear it will take its place among all the other crappy video game movies.
well...we'll see.
Honestly, this sounds kinda misguided. I mean, I get the appeal but MGS stories have worked best when they were focused on one character during one time period and during one, maximum two missions. It just makes for more compact and focused storytelling.
I'm not sure how much sense it makes to revisit one of those existing stories in movie format either. Like, those games are already pretty close to movies. What could you possibly add to them? What could Jordan Voigt-Roberts add to them?
Just go further back in time, cast Uma Thurman as the Boss and make a trilogy about the exploits of Cobra Unit and end with the founding of FOX.
The Warcraft movie definitely could have been better, that's for sure. Still, it was the love Duncan Jones had for Warcraft that kept it faithful to the games and created a movie some hardcore fans actually like. And (for whatever its worth), the best video game movie.
Until Duncan Jones came along, everyone pitched Blizzard a movie where the Orcs were just dumb bad guys. There is an argument to be made, that the movie just has to be good and being faithful to the games doesn't matter, but what's the point if what you make is unrecognizable from the thing the fans love?
There is a chance that because of Jordan Vogt Robert's love of MGS, we might at the very least get a movie that hardcore fans of the game might be able to appreciate.
MGS directed or written by anybody but Kojima is sacrilege
Throwing the Jurassic World writer at this magnum opus is downright malicious
Throwing the Jurassic World writer at this magnum opus is downright malicious
How the hell is wacky bullshit like MGS going to translate well onto film? Video game movies are a terrible idea to begin with, but this is probably the worst contender of them all.
Although this would be cool to see. For like a minute, at least.
Although this would be cool to see. For like a minute, at least.
I just can't get excited about this. The game is so cinematic in itself that I don't really want to see a movie. Plus to properly convey the OTT tone of the game you'd need a fuckin HUGE budget which it will probably never get, and they'll surely trim down the idiosyncratic Kojima stuff to make it a more packaged mainstream project.
It's also like when people say they want a GTA movie, but GTA is so indebted to pop-culture/movies as a whole that adapting it into a film would make it seem really hollow and derivative.
Not convinced this is ever happening, Connolly is a terrible choice either way.
It's also like when people say they want a GTA movie, but GTA is so indebted to pop-culture/movies as a whole that adapting it into a film would make it seem really hollow and derivative.
Not convinced this is ever happening, Connolly is a terrible choice either way.
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I think that like Fliesen pointed out, the Moon director and Bowie's son is a bonafide Warcraft fan and that film didn't work, but it's easy to think that Deadpool is a success now that it was done then before. We are talking about not just a rated R superhero, but a rated R cult superhero known for 4th wall breaking that somehow ended up getting not just a good film, but a great one. It could go both ways, it could be meh. It's too early to tell, but I think that like Dardan Sandiego pointed out, a more streamlined version should be what Vogt-Roberts should be aiming now. I feel like Metal Gear Solid has a very cinematic nature that could be explored along side the 4th wall over the top aspects that somehow becomes serious all of sudden. We live in a post-Deadpool world, and that's what makes me kinda hopeful that it might in fact work.
Also, Amen to Uma Thurman as The Boss.
To make money? Probably not a lot mind but if Resident Evil could turn a profit I'm sure Metal Gear could too.
And hey, one of these days a video game movie is bound to be smash hit and open the floodgates for lots more adaptions, right?
