Sony In Talks With Jordan Vogt-Roberts To Helm ‘Metal Gear Solid’

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• I think it all comes down to the talent involved in the projects. Video game movies can absolutely be as good as comic book movies. Sometimes, the source material in a comic book movie is pretty shaky. In the past, comic book movies had been terrible, but only in recent years have stronger writers, filmmakers and actors attached themselves to those kinds of projects. And the quality has reflected that. As a fan of these games, I’m very excited to see what they do with the movies.

  Comment by Ya — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 3:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Best video game ever.

  Comment by Snake? Snake? Snaaaaaaaaaaake! — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 3:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Correct.

    Comment by Ocelot — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 4:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree these movies always fall short, but the reasons are institutional.
  The games are by nature simplistic from a story standpoint, and since they are not originally conceived for the screen, adaptation is difficult. This is true of most material not conceived from the beginning for feature film. Second, the market drives which material is adapted. Creatives (writers) only take the jobs because the pay is good. Not because they would ever write such rubbish of their own free will.

  Finally, even when talented writers are brought in, too many people who haven’t earned their right to tell story have a hand in the process. Thus there is no original voice, nor even a second or third rendering of such a voice.

  And while I’m no fan of graphic novel movies (of the last four to be released, only x-men had a story with a compelling or even discernible through line,) but at least the content is conceived as a narrative story, meant to be told visually. Video game properties lack even the basic level of story telling found in graphic novels. And yeah, I know many graphic novels are good – as graphic novels. Hollywood has not made many that were good movies, even if many have been financially successful.

  I keep hoping for audiences to tire of being sold pure spectacle, but in an age where story is the last consideration, I suppose I can’t blame them for showing up – spectacle – at least they do get that.

  And for those of you who want to argue the merit of graphic novel movies – Watching 20 minutes of guys who can’t be hurt, punching other guys who can’t be hurt is boring by any definition. Championship wrestling was compelling by comparison.

  Comment by tentoes — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 3:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • You must not be familiar with the Metal Gear Solid games at all. If ever there were a video game story to turn into a movie, this is it.

    I hope they give as much depth to the characters as the video games did. I still feel bad about killing Sniper Wolf.

    Comment by mgs fan — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 4:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • I am not. I accept that there are exceptions to every rule.
      We shall see what emerges.
      The precedents are not encouraging

      Comment by Tentoes — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 6:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Well if you’re unfamiliar with the resource material, Metal Gear Solid game have the most convoluted ever conceived for a video game. It also helps that the game itself have a lot of “movie like” properties such as exposition, long dialogues and cutscenes, human like interaction and lots of great action.

    If there ever was a game that makes a great movie, this is it.

    Comment by MetalFan — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 7:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Best video game ever, being produced by the worst producer, Arad. Color me bummed.

  Comment by Gil Brooks — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 4:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Who is this guy and what makes him qualified to direct the MGS feature film?

  Comment by Cuppajoe — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 4:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow… that’s almost as big a leap as Treverow to Jurrasic World.

  Comment by m — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 5:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• VERY SMART decision. i’m excited!

  Comment by dani — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 5:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I wonder if he’ll take a great script and turn it into a crappy movie, like his last one.

  Comment by ok then — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 5:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think video game movies fail because the movie can never be as good as the gamers’ own adventures.

  Comment by fluffo — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 6:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I am not a gamer, at all, but this worries me. I have this horrible feeling/fear that movie studios will take crappy scripts for generic, paint by numbers espionage/action shoot em ups, and shoe horn them into a well known video game property.

    Basically, they will take a crappy James Bond script, or a special forces script, and just change the names to fit Metal Gear. I hope I’m wrong, on behalf of all gamers.

    Comment by Patrick — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 8:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• every video game adaptation movies could be huge success if they get the right people who understand the potential, the soul of the game series, Look at Marvel Studios did! They need Great crew, Great cast members, Great producers, directors and writers to helm the projects!

  Comment by rama — Tuesday June 3, 2014 @ 7:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• David Hayter should voice BB in TPP FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Comment by joakim mogren — Wednesday June 4, 2014 @ 12:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• careful with this one Deluca. He’s a tough one to work with and NOT fun on set

  Comment by really? — Wednesday June 4, 2014 @ 2:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why use real actors? I wouldn’t mind seeing MGS using CGI characters instead. The technology is there to make them look life like.

  Comment by old snake — Thursday June 5, 2014 @ 12:13am PDT  Reply to this post