Metal Gear SolidScrythe said:
MGS3 Snake Eater
Metal Gear Rising
no need to change, the innuendoes are already there..
[small] ...well sort of [/small]
Solid Snake Gets a Movie
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MGS3 Snake Eater
Metal Gear Rising
no need to change, the innuendoes are already there..
[small] ...well sort of [/small]
The problem is, it wouldn't be a good movie. Maybe if you cut off 90% of standing around and repeating things? Then it would make for a good one.Proverbial Jon said:
As far as adapting video-games for movies goes, I think Metal Gear is a good choice, and in fact the story could work very well since it would have to be cut.
Not to say I think this will necessarily be great, but I don't think it has the same issues most such adaptations face.
This is gonna be... interesting.
Unfortunately, the whole movie will most likely be played totally straight, meaning no Kojima camp or mindscrew.
Maybe if they got like Paul Verhoeven to direct this it could work. Fat chance of that happening though.
Unfortunately, the whole movie will most likely be played totally straight, meaning no Kojima camp or mindscrew.
Maybe if they got like Paul Verhoeven to direct this it could work. Fat chance of that happening though.
Looking over Arad's resume does not lend hope to this project...
Granted I don't know how much creative control Arad actually had over those ovies, but come on, you picked the guy who did the second Ghost Rider movie, the Hulk nobody talks about, and the frigging Spiderman reboot?
Yeah... not getting my hopes up for this.
Granted I don't know how much creative control Arad actually had over those ovies, but come on, you picked the guy who did the second Ghost Rider movie, the Hulk nobody talks about, and the frigging Spiderman reboot?
Yeah... not getting my hopes up for this.
If my cursory knowledge of the MGS franchise is up to snuff, then I take it making a movie is simply cutting out the all the gameplay that was mucking up their film?
As long as Michael Bay isn't involved I'm all for it. And yes, I'd love to see Hugh Jackman as Snake (or better yet, David Hayter, but that sadly won't happen).
movie adaptations of video games are usually terrible, but kojima's always seemed to have been born to make movies, so the more he's involved with the project the higher chances of this movie breaking the mold. i'd hope he's more involved than just a name on it.
Proverbial Jon said:
I think the cutscenes alone are long enough to make a whole miniseries.Farther than stars said:
The only way I see this working is if they do a streamlined version of MGS3. Anything else associated with the franchise is going to fail. Why?
1) Lead actor. No matter how much you hope it will be the case, David Hayter is not going to be Snake. No production company in their right mind is going to bank a $100-200 million production on a guy who's last on-screen work was The Guyver 2: Dark Hero, and that was 20 years ago. He's got the voice, but he's in the same vein as David Bateman - there's a difference between a voice actor's persona and their physical presence. Bateman can pull off shady diplomats and politicians, but he can't pull off the physicality of a hitman who can go psychopath at a moment's notice (unlike his voice work in the games), and the guy who played him in the film failed at pretty much everything associated with the character. The last time I saw Hayter in a fanfilm/promo where he portrayed Naked Snake, he looked entirely at odds with the character, regardless of his voice.
2) Director. There's no way they're going to rope a big-name director into this, unless it's a studio project and they bring in an indie director who wants to cut his/her chops on a established property. Coupled with the stigma of video game movies and the property itself (see next point), I figure they'll have an insurmountable task on their hands.
3) Source material. I don't know how they intend to get across the story in a feature film. You can immediately write off MGS2, which was one of the biggest fourth-wall breaking games in history (to say nothing of it's insane plot). MGS1 and 2 had a cyborg ninja, a woman who dresses up like a male soldier, a guy who gets his hand chopped off and (supposedly) gets possessed via proxy by the spirit of the protagonist's dead brother, a scientist who pees himself in fright and more bizarre plot twists than you can shake a stick at. There's no way they'll take that material and put it in a feature film - it's intrinsic to the storyline and the series as a whole. Any adaptation is going to be neutered as a result.
4) Effects. The games rely heavily on mecha-walkers, with the later games having extended sequences featuring them. Unless they're prepared to blow their budget on making these things walk around without making it look like a video game, they'll have to keep them off-screen for long periods of time. That's something I don't think they'll have the luxury of doing.
Aside from the fanboys, I doubt there would be much interest in a film adaptation. Even Uncharted is stuck in development hell.
1) Lead actor. No matter how much you hope it will be the case, David Hayter is not going to be Snake. No production company in their right mind is going to bank a $100-200 million production on a guy who's last on-screen work was The Guyver 2: Dark Hero, and that was 20 years ago. He's got the voice, but he's in the same vein as David Bateman - there's a difference between a voice actor's persona and their physical presence. Bateman can pull off shady diplomats and politicians, but he can't pull off the physicality of a hitman who can go psychopath at a moment's notice (unlike his voice work in the games), and the guy who played him in the film failed at pretty much everything associated with the character. The last time I saw Hayter in a fanfilm/promo where he portrayed Naked Snake, he looked entirely at odds with the character, regardless of his voice.
2) Director. There's no way they're going to rope a big-name director into this, unless it's a studio project and they bring in an indie director who wants to cut his/her chops on a established property. Coupled with the stigma of video game movies and the property itself (see next point), I figure they'll have an insurmountable task on their hands.
3) Source material. I don't know how they intend to get across the story in a feature film. You can immediately write off MGS2, which was one of the biggest fourth-wall breaking games in history (to say nothing of it's insane plot). MGS1 and 2 had a cyborg ninja, a woman who dresses up like a male soldier, a guy who gets his hand chopped off and (supposedly) gets possessed via proxy by the spirit of the protagonist's dead brother, a scientist who pees himself in fright and more bizarre plot twists than you can shake a stick at. There's no way they'll take that material and put it in a feature film - it's intrinsic to the storyline and the series as a whole. Any adaptation is going to be neutered as a result.
4) Effects. The games rely heavily on mecha-walkers, with the later games having extended sequences featuring them. Unless they're prepared to blow their budget on making these things walk around without making it look like a video game, they'll have to keep them off-screen for long periods of time. That's something I don't think they'll have the luxury of doing.
Aside from the fanboys, I doubt there would be much interest in a film adaptation. Even Uncharted is stuck in development hell.