After Silent Hill, I lack all faith in video game movies for the rest of my life.

But honestly, any given MGS game is too long to adapt into a even a long movie. That shit's going to be so heavily abbreviated it's going to suck ass.

They should turn video games into season-long live action series or something.

Agreed.

I just found a TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE

LOL, but seriously, MGS3 would translate a little better into a movie than MGS1 just because the plot isn't as convoluted.

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Also agreed. You know what would make a good movie? Twisted Metal or some shit. A game with little-to-no plot is much easier (and safer as far as fan approval is concerned) to stretch into a two hour movie than to condense something large into only two hours.

I think Ryuhei Kitamura would be able to pull of a respectable MGS movie. He's also friends with Kojima... the possibilities!

The silenced weapon is fired. The guard's cigarette is shot from his mouth.

Guard: The hell? That was my last cigarette.


:confused:

Did you plan it to be a comedy or what?

Well, let me tell you that the source of this information is wrong. I listen to Hideo's Podcast regulary and he has made no such confirmation concerning a Metal Gear Solid movie.

The rumour started when the English translation for Hidechan Radio (the Kojima Productions Blog by Ryan Payton) mentioned that Kojima Productions was founded to allow the developers to make use of all of Konami's resources, allowing them to even make a movie if they wished to. However, no such plans have been announced.

This rumour needs to stop here and now. A decent Metal Gear Solid movie that would please fans just wouldn't work and we all know it.

There's already been a MGS film, it's called 'Escape from New York'.

Why would that be comedy?

The part that I quoted seems like something straight out of Kung Fu Hustle.

"Whose footprints are these?"

God, if they made a big red ! when someone discovers Snake, I don't think they can ruin the movie!

Seriously though, I wouldn't have anything against a twisted plot, as long as they tell it in a natural way, and doesn't skip anything because of time pressure. Perhaps my dream of seeing Sean Connery as Big Boss will finally happen?

God almighty. If only Clint Eastwood were 20-30 years younger, we'd have our Snake ;__;

I don't like how this looks. But it'll be under Kojima's control entirely I'm sure. Even if he isn't directing, he'll oversee it.

Clive Owens needs to be Snake. Period.

Speaking of the Kojima Productions podcast, didn't Ryan debunk the movie rumor on the first or second one?

Yeah but that was because of Uwe Boll who was on some SpikeTV videogame show saying he'd been approached to make a Metal Gear Solid movie and had received the script from Konami. Kojima himself said that Boll was pretty much talking bollocks and if anyone were going to direct a MGS flick it certainly wouldn't be Boll.

Oh, I know. I got who Grey Fox was, Big Boss and all that. What I meant with the references was that I had no idea all of this happened in previous games. The game did a good enough job explaining everything in the cutscenes and mandatory codecs. There was no need to read recaps of the other games or anything.

Back on track: Sean Connery MUST be in it as Big Boss. MUST.

Ewwww! That idiot nearly ruined Twin Snakes. No wonder, as Versus was a terrible movie. I have no idea why Kojima and/or Silicon Knights hired this hack for Twin Snakes...

Clive Owens is too busy working with Ted Hayash on the casting for the DBZ live action film, scheduled for a summer release in 2007.

Probably because it's already been confirmed that Ryuhei Kitamura is working on the Metal Gear Solid movie. Get your sources straight before jumping to conclusions.

Fears dispelled!

Uh oh. Bay is already busy making the 2007 Transformers movie, how is he gonna shoot Metal Gear by Fall? Methinks that be false information. IGN isn't nearly as credible as it seems. You know they have an article up about "Batman vs. Chuck Norris"? Um, WTF?

Silent Hill was ok. If you really want to bash live action vg movies then use titles such as: House of the Dead, Mario Brothers, Street Fighter, etc.

I don't think it would be a good idea to make a MGS movie, there's already 24 which is like MGS but a different Snake and Otacon...

For an MGS movie to actually be any good, they'd basically have to drop a good chunk of the mythology and overly pretentious bullshit that plagues the games. In short, an MGS movie would be MGS in name only.

I'm not bashing anything. I'm saying I was hyped about a movie that I thought could only turn out to be awesome and was disappointed by a film that can best be described as "okay". I pretty much feel that if Silent Hill couldn't be a awesome game to movie adaptation then no other film will be, at least for a long time.

How soon again do you think it'll be that someone like Roger Avary will be writing and someone like Christopher Gans directing a video game movie? Most likely whoever makes this Metal Gear Solid film will be far less skillful. That said, the film will likely turn out worse than even Silent Hill, aka mediocre at best.

Yeah. They'd have to create an original story with a two hour time limit in mind instead of 20 hours. They would have to cut down the number of supporting characters. We couldn't expect to have screen time for everybody in a FoxHound-style group. Important plot points' revelations would have to be moved from codec to the immediate surroundings. But I think they could pull it off, and make it very much a Metal Gear property.

"Metal Gear" property.

What embodies Metal Gear besides strange bosses and quirky AI (ie cardboard box disguise being effective)? Oh right, and a giant mech (as if that's specific to Metal Gear in any way).

You strip away the intricate plot, impossibly deep villains, and philosophy and you really don't have anything but a 2-hour long generic sneaking mission.

I basically feel that it's impossible for this movie to be good in the eyes of fans random audience members or critics.

Unless it tries to be a semi-parody of itself perhaps?

Uh... Did you even read what I said, or are you just retarded?