'Metal Gear Solid' Movie Not Happening

I'm sorry to have to report this, especially for those who are big fans of the video game, but it looks like a "Metal Gear Solid" movie won't be happening for a long time. Collider caught up with producer Michael De Luca recently and asked him about the film's status and he didn't have any good news.

According to De Luca, things are seemingly on hold for the time being as not everyone’s fully on board, mainly the video game company. In this case, the developer is Konami and it looks like they maybe fearful of letting a Hollywood studio adapt their prized property considering the history of quality in video game movies.

“I don’t think it’s going to move forward because I got the sense that there may not be enough of a coordinated will at this point on the side of certain parties to see a movie get made," De Luca said to Collider. "And I get it because the problem with a lot of these adaptations is it’s such a huge franchise for the video game company. A movie can only hurt. If the movie’s great, you’re probably not going to sell more games. It’s such a separate thing. The franchise being as big as it kind of helps the movie…I’m not sure the movie does the same thing for the game.”

Collider went on to mention the onslaught of video game licenses being picked up everywhere to be made into films in the near future and pointed out that the common thought would be that "Metal Gear Solid" would definitely be one of them.

“I think there’s some things…the video game companies are very protective of their property and there are certain things a studio requires freedom-wise to market and distribute a movie effectively in a global marketplace and sometimes getting those two things to match up is really hard. And in the case of 'Metal Gear Solid,' the agendas just….not because the parties weren’t amicable, it was just kind of impossible to get the agendas to match up.”

I understand the fear and hesitation from some video game companies to let filmmakers adapt their property especially when they tend to deviate so much from the key elements which made the games so successful in the first place. Pretty much every film based on a video game is terrible with a few being decent (can really only think of the first "Mortal Kombat" and first "Tomb Raider").

Of course, that doesn't mean there will never be a "Metal Gear Solid" movie, just that, at present, the two companies aren't moving forward with the project. So when both Konami and the studio are ready to have "Metal Gear Solid" make the jump to the silver screen, then it might get done.

What do you make of this news? Would you even want to see a "Metal Gear Solid" movie? If so, who would make the perfect Solid Snake?

More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Sources: Screen Rant, First Showing, Latino Review

Metal Gear Solid and Lost Planet

More videogame movies!
I have played the "Metal Gear Solid" series (may I say holy cr*p they are good and already almost likes movies with the ling cinematics), and I have heard of "Lost Planet" and seen the trailer.
Both are good movie material if done well and David Hayter ("X-Men," "Watchmen") is a great writer and can do these games justice.
Especially "Metal Gear Solid" since he has been playing the voice of Solid Snake for the game series for the past 10 years.

Collider had the chance to interview David Hayter. His first "Well" is in the voice of Solid Snake.



Here is a transcript of an interview he had with Omelete about "Lost Planet."

O: What are you working on right now?

DAVID HAYTER: I'm adapting a videogame called "Lost Planet" at Warner Bros.

O: Are videogames the next superheroes?

HAYTER: Not necessarily. I wanted to do it because Avi Arad was a producer I liked a lot. I worked with him on "X-Men" and "Black Widow" and I took it on because I thought it was a great world and it was about energy depletion which I thought was very applicable to our current situation.

O: The videogame, "Lost Planet", that's the one with the ice? I played it awhile ago. It was not one of my favorite videogames.

HAYTER: The thing about it is that…I lived in Japan and it was very Japanese in the way it was told. It's not very linear, everything is extremely ambiguous and you're not really sure what's going on and it wasn't the story so much as that world. The ice planet, what it is was an ice planet that was colonized to a huge extent a hundred years ago. And then, they sort of raised the temperature and these giant insects come out and kill everybody and when we come back seventy-five years later, there are all these kinds of American-style cities on this abandoned ice planet that are just crumbling and falling apart and I thought this was an incredible palette to set a movie in and when I realized I could turn it into a movie about energy and helping the Earth survive, then I started to feel that there was a worthwhile movie there. It's not the same thing as "Watchmen" where I said, "Oh my God, I have to do that story," it was "There's a structure I can really play in and create a story."

And I love "The Thing" and I wanted to do a movie in the snow and thought it would be beautiful and here is a whole planet that is under dispute so what I've tried to do is create a story is where this young guy, kind of a screw-up young pilot, like "An Officer and a Gentleman" or something, becomes "Lawrence of Arabia" and gathers these lost colonies together and takes back his planet.

O: Very much like "Dune".

HAYTER: Yes, very much like "Dune". I don't have any original ideas! (laughs) Fortunately, I work in Hollywood and they don't want any.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!