Solid Snake Gets a Movie
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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.
I can imagine it now. The writers try to tell the whole story of Solid Snake and everything he has gotten up to using the games as source material...
It ends up being 4 days long and still nobody really understands what happened - all anyone really remembers is MASSIVE MECHS FIGHTING! ALSO TITS!
...because of the aforementioned mechs and women wearing inappropriate clothing for their situation it makes MILLIONS!
It ends up being 4 days long and still nobody really understands what happened - all anyone really remembers is MASSIVE MECHS FIGHTING! ALSO TITS!
...because of the aforementioned mechs and women wearing inappropriate clothing for their situation it makes MILLIONS!
Apparently there's and edition of MGS3 that came with a feature length film where all the cutscenes were edited together into a 3 and a half hour movie.Proverbial Jon said:
They should either get John Carpenter and Kurt Russell to do the movie or hire the guy who made Ghost in the Shell to create an anime.
If not this, at least have him tapped as a writer...since he does that. And knows the series.Sis said:
But really, that makes far too much sense for anything that Hollywood would be involved in.