Metal Gear Solid movie confirmed.

NOOOOOOoooooo!!1!

Damn it! They'll just end up ruining MGS for everyone. Seriously, unless HK directs (which I doubt he will, he's too busy with MGS4 and has never directed a movie before), there's a 99% chance it will suck. Just because Silent Hill has sort of broken the videogame movie curse doesn't mean videogame movies can't suck anymore. And they'll never ever be able to cast a satisfactory Snake.


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Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

I've always envisionned the movie to start just before a Dog-Sled competition, during a little snow storm in Alaska. Snake would sit on a rock, thinking about the past when the sound of choppers would be heard. Then a chase sequence in the woods of Snake and the soldiers, sent by Colonel Campbell, to retrieve him.

That's how I'd do it.

But they need to keep the integrality of the 'Interrogation Tapes' from the first game to get the back story. That's how everyone who didn't know squat about the first two games were put back into the whole storyline.

You see, that's why it's going to suck. The opening from the original game was perfect as it was, changing it would change the mood entirely. All MGS games open with an action-packed infiltration in which Snake's mission objectives are given to him, none of that prologue crap. And another thing is, most of the player's understanding of the underlying events came from the codec conversations which were long, actionless, and mostly optional. Codec will not translate well into a movie. Niether will simply sneaking around and taking out gaurds because no story happens durring those parts, yet sneaking makes up alot of the game.

As the Existence disc of Subsistence Limited Edition proved, you can't just take all the story cutscenes from the game and mash them together and add a bit of sneaking in between. It just doesn't work. And to make matters worse, that was edited by Kojima himself, I shudder to think what others interpereting his work would do to it!

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I played MGS without having played MG1 or 2 before, and even though all the references to the past games went right over my head, I got the storyline just fine. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose first Metal Gear was Solid.

MGS1 was my first Metal Gear game as well, but the references were not over my head at all. If you listen to the Codec conversations Snake's history with Grey Fox is explained as well as his relation to Big Boss (Call the Colonel in the jail cell). They could easily explain Grey Fox and Big Boss in the movie, or they could just do a quick flashback to the events of the first Metal Gear games. Or they don't have to explain it at all, the story was just as good without really knowing any of the history of Snake and Big Boss. Alot of movies work like MGS in which the hero has prior history with characters, but that history never really gets explained (Escape from New York for example), and it still turns out good. My point is that the references to past events isn't the real problem with a movie adaptation.

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Whoever directs, I think that Hugh Jackman should play Snake. Other than David Hayter, he'll make a fine Snake.

No. Hayer looks nothing like Snake and Jackman isn't satisfactory either. Even if they somehow manage to cast someone that looks alot like Snake, the voice will never be right. They'd have to dub the whole movie with the original voice actors from the game, and that would probably be really hokey. Also keep in mind that whoever plays Solid Snake should also play Liquid (Some would cast another actor entirely as Liquid), so he'd have to nail Solid's voice as well as Liquid's. MGS's voice acting is top notch, so not getting the voices perfect would ruin the movie for every fan.

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Originally Posted by dagget

I remember one time I had started to write a script and I made it take place of the take over of the research facilty on Shadow Moses. I'd be happy to upload it so people can see and tell me how much it sucked. :P

Though it would be cool to see the takeover of Shadow Moses, as I stated before changing the original opening (which btw is what drew many players into MGS initially in the first place (demo)) would take away from the mood. It also seems like there wouldn't be enough time to get to everything in the game (the cutscenes alone are WAY longer than a movie, let alone all the Codec stuff and the sneaking), thus adding even more stuff that wasn't shown in the game isn't such a good idea.

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I would be far less opposed to a movie adaption of the original MSX Metal Gear games than I am to MGS. The games predate voice acting and the graphics make for a wider array of actors that could play a younger Snake (in other words, we won't be able to go "That's not what young Snake looked like!!1!" when we see some actor playing him).

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What, Runningman and the Escape movies weren't absurd (Metal Gear draws inspiration from both of them)? Metal Gear's "absurdity" is one of its trademarks considering that it was mostly inspired by those absurd 80's action movies. That is another reason the movie can't work, those kinds of movies are definitely not in style these days. And to go back and change it so that it's not absurd would be the completely wrong thing to do. What are they going to do, get rid of Metal Gear, Ninja, Ocelot's awesome skillz, Psycho Mantis' powers, Vulcan Ravens'...ravens? No. If they do get rid of that stuff, it won't even be Metal Gear anymore.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh man, this is looking more and more dismal the more I think about it. I would say that hopefully we might be able to judge what the MG movie will be like from the Splinter Cell movie (which should hit before the MG movie), but SC and MGS are so different that there really is no comparison except to say that there will be some stealthy action in both of them.

The latest Kojima Productions Report says that there will be a BIG E3 announcement not trailer or game related. I'm thinking they'll either formally announce the movie, or they'll announce MGS is going to the Wii (yeah right! Solid Snake Wii. LOL, innuendo!).

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Originally Posted by Technophile

Anyway, I really think that they'll be able to get away with a lot more MGS insanity if the movie's animated.

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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Originally Posted by Eleo

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.

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.

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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?

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I always thought Christian Bale might possibly make a good Snake. Batman proved that he could get super buff if needed. He's very good at voice impersonations, so he might be able to mimick Snake's voice decent enough, and he's already British, so playing Liquid wouldn't be all that hard for him. I'm surprised to find that Kojima suggested Vigo. The thought never crossed my mind. I wouldn't be too opposed to it. I still think the movie should be CGI.

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You mean Steven Seagal? Get out. NOW.

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LOL, someone thinks Tom Cruise should be Snake:




My vote goes to Bale:


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Except if Karl Urban is cast in another videogame movie it will be Federally mandated that the Rock is in it and that it sucks. That's just how Hollywood works. Please, MGS does not = Doom.


I think Powers Boothe might make a good Ocelot. His role in Sin City (Senator Rourke) reminded me of Ocelot.

I was speaking idiomatically.

That guy looks too paranoid to be young Ocelot. Plus whoever is cast as young Ocelot would have to look like whoever is cast as the Boss.

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Originally Posted by AC1

My prediction:

Snake's Revenge >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MGS: The Movie

Ha! Now that would be acceptable. There would be no chance of ruining it that way! Yes, this has my vote. The movie should be a film adaption of Snake's Revenge.


Also, Michael Shanks as Otacon.



Edit: Oh hell, they should just make the movie a comedy based on "The Last Days of Foxhound" comic at Gigaville.com. Nobody in the world would understand it except me.

For instance, in this scene Psycho Mantis takes the Foxhound unit on a mind dive into Ocelot who is in a coma. The ghost of Big Boss is there too to fill in Ocelot's missing memories. They come across Ocelot's memories of the events of MGS3:


Did you get it? No? Good. Keep it that way.



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I don't think production would be cancelled for a Metal Gear movie. Studios have been waiting years to get their gready hands on Metal Gear and Kojima has prevented it all this time. Why he would sell the rights now instead of way back when I have no idea. The point is that if Kojima is endorsing it, it's more likely than not that it's going to happen. Since KP is announcing "something BIG at E3 not game or trailer related", we should wait to see if the movie get announced at E3 before seriously continuing this discussion.

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Just like Kiefer Sutherland is destined to play the badass government agent.

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LOL, more like "Woah".



What about this guy, Josh Holloway?



He looks the part, he's certainly got that Snake vibe going. I don't know if he'd be able to do the voice though.

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The 3 min MGS4 trailer alone is better than any movie I've seen in a great while. By the time PS4 rolls around movies will be outdated and archaic.

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I knew KP would announce the movie at E3. I think the hugeness of this news has been overshadowed by E3 and all the next gen goodness, which is why the major gaming news sites have yet to put it on the main page. Once all this E3 stuff cools down we can expect weekly pointless "Who should play Snake?" articles on IGN.

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