- METAL GEAR SOLID
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| Metal Gear Solid |
Feature film iteration of the popular video game Metal Gear
Solid has gone through quite a few ups and downs over the years, but it now
sounds like development on the film is moving forward…again.
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| Solid Snake |
Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid is in the works
with Spider-Man’s Avi Arad (former Marvel Studios CEO) onboard to produce. For those unaware, Metal Gear Solid is a
stealth action video game that centers on a solider named Solid Snake who
infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility in order to neutralize a terrorist threat.
The announcement of the Metal Gear Solid film was made at
the Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo.
Via Kotaku, Arad appeared onstage and had this to say about his
intentions:
“For many years I fought to bring comics to theaters. Comic
books are now biggest genre in cinema, [and] video games are the comic books of
today… We will take our time and tell the story with all the nuances, ideology,
cautionary tales needed.”
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| Old Snake Fan Art |
While at Marvel, Arad was responsible for some truly great
adaptations like Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films and X-Men, but he was also behind
Fantastic Four and Elektra. He hasn’t
exactly found great success since leaving the studio, with The Amazing
Spider-Man acting as his only recent hit.
In addition to Metal Gear, he’s also developing film versions of Mass
Effect and Uncharted.
This isn’t the first time that a Metal Gear Solid movie has
tried to get off the ground. The Social
Network producer Michael De Luca was previously attached to the property in
2008, but by 2010 the project had fallen apart.
De Luca cited the difficulty of aligning the interests of everyone
involved to make a singular film as the reason the movie didn’t move forward,
and it’s no secret that video game companies are ridiculously precious when it
comes to adapting their properties.
So don’t get your hopes up just yet! Comment below and let
us know what you think about this.
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