Metal Gear Solid Movie News Surfaces
Lets face it, most video game movies have been disasters. You could probably count the number quality movies based on video games on one hand. If director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has anything to say about that, the Metal Gear Solid Movie sounds incredibly promising so far. Vogt-Roberts has just finished directing the King Kong reboot Kong: Skull Island and recently opened up about the status of the Metal Gear Solid movie.
The best part, he and Kojima are still in the process of writing the script. Vogt-Roberts said:
“Metal Gear Solid is probably the most important franchise to me on the planet. It is such a genius, idiosyncratic work and being able to spend time with [Hideo] Kojima recently has been like a dream. He’s the best and his whole team is the best. We are working on the script. 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.”
When Vogt-Roberts was asked whether the movie would be PG-13 or R rating, he indicated he will make the movie whatever it needs to be, and everything else will follow suit. He said:
“I think that for me, I want to make the version of the movie that is most true to what it needs to be, so if that is a Deadpool or Logan route where you go with a smaller budget and you’re able to make it R, great. If you need to blow it out more and really get that bigger budget and go PG-13, I think it could exist in both avenues.”
One thing is for certain, Vogt-Roberts is a Metal Gear fan and he appears to know what the fans want to see. He went on to say:
“I wanna find the version that someone like you who’s like a superfan of this property would say, ‘They did it. That’s my Metal Gear. That’s my shit.’ Beyond it being a video game movie, beyond the difference between active experience and passive experience and why people haven’t been able to translate an active experience into a good passive experience in the shape of a film, beyond that question to me it’s not even about being a video game movie, Metal Gear is an important story, an important set of characters.”
Well this is all exciting stuff and we will share more news for you when we have it.