[Movie] Metal Gear Solid Movie Announced

I've said it before, Christian Bale for Snake (especially the young (ish) clean-cut Snake from MGS1. Bale can do a better Snake voice than any other potentials, and He's certainly closer looking to Snake than Vigo or Keifer, as much as I love them, its true.)

Powers Boothe for Ocelot (His appearance on 24 has reaffirmed his awesomeness. He's born to play sleezy backstabby villainous characters).



Sony is responsible for Resident Evil (Okay. Enjoyable and not really disloyal to the franchise) and Silent Hill (let's face it, best videogame movie ever to date, despite its plot problems), I have at least some faith in it. Casting wishlists aside, it won't exactly ruin the movie if they don't cast a "PERFECT Snake, Ocelot, ect.", since lots of actors can potentially fill the roles well (Jackman, Vigo, Keifer, Bale, Russel, all would make good Snakes). The movie simply has to be cast well, which is up to the director/producer/casting person. I'm really worried about which director is going to be attached to this. That's the most important thing for this movie to succeed (or rather, avoid utter failure). Even if this movie has horrible plot redo like Silent Hill, the MGS plot is still, at its heart, an entertaining tale. Kojima as Producer makes me sigh relief. He has say over the director and perhaps even over the other producer. He'll at least aim this gun at the right targets. Its up to the director to fine tune it and get the head shots (though body shots wouldn't be bad considering that, continuing the gun analogy, Silent Hill managed to hit the target in the foot or the leg where pretty much every other videogame adaption was either way off target or the gun simply jammed).

I think some parts of Hollywood are slowly learning that people like adaptions better when they're true to the source material (Sin City, Silent Hill, Batman Begins, LOTR, and any recent faithful adaptions of properties). Or maybe that's just what directors are learning and Hollywood could care less because all they see are ticket sales (Snakes on a Plane, Ghost Rider, ect.).

In any case, I hope some of the people working on 24 get in on this because 24 is pretty much "MGS the TV series" sans the supernatural powers and giant robots.

Jam it back in, in the dark.