Metal Gear Solid movie no more
The never ending battle to throw Solid Snake onto the big screen is no more. Producer Mike De Luca spilled the beans on the fate of the latest video game adaptation and if it would ever see the light of day past it’s development stages. Here’s more on what he had to say in an interview he had with Collider.:
“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.”
“[T]he 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.”
Hideo Kojima was better known for wanting to take a bigger role in the project, making such bold statements earlier on about not having particular directors such as Uwe Boll taking the reigns of the popular property. With the series’ rich story lines of espionage and drama mixed in with heavy duty action, it appeared as quite a feat in itself in order to at least get the feature off the ground.
Now that it’s buried, do you believe that’ll be the case for good? Or do you believe that Sony will try to find a way sometime soon, in order to capitalize on the series, by bringing this project back from the dead?
