Metal Gear Solid (tentative title) is a live-action film, based on the Metal Gear video game series created by Hideo Kojima.On April 28, 2006, Kojima announced in his weekly podcast, HIDECHAN! Radio, that "[they] are going to do it as a movie", referring to Metal Gear Solid, and that it is going to be in English. [1][2] Kojima Productions distributed a catalog for upcoming games at E3 2006, which included an article on the movie project. In it, Kojima stated that "a movie project is underway", and that a contract with a party in Hollywood has been finalized.[3]Before the project was announced, German director Uwe Boll, known for his heavily criticized, low-budget video game-based films that stray from the source material greatly, claimed that he received a script from Konami for a possible Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation.[4] In response, Kojima stated that they have never talked to Boll, and that "it's impossible we'd ever do a movie with him".[5] After the announcement, Kojima reiterated that Boll will have nothing to do with the project.[3]Kojima has stated that he feels Viggo Mortensen "would make a perfect Snake". The Metal Gear Solid game is set in Alaska, and he states that this would be the perfect setting for the movie.[6] Kojima has stated in the August 2006 issue of PSM also that it is a completely new story of the MGS series. It is unknown as of yet where in the MGS timeline it will take place, if it is indeed even canonical.David Hayter, voice actor for the main character in the Metal Gear Solid games, Solid Snake, and scriptwriter on the X-Men films, has stated in an interview that he would love to do the screenplay. He has discussed it with the film producers, whom, according to Hayter, he is friends with. He hopes to be available, but scheduling might interfere, with him starting shooting of Black Widow, a Lion's Gate/Marvel Comics production, in Fall 2006.[7] Lion's Gate has since dropped Black Widow
The Metal Gear Solid movie won't be happening, at least in the foreseeable future, according to producer Michael De Luca.He told 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."He explained that Konami is concerned about a duff movie hurting the image of the game series. "The franchise being as big as it is kind of helps the movie. I'm not sure the movie does the same thing for the game." De Luca added: "The videogame 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 -- it was just kind of impossible to get the agendas to match up."So that seems to be that for a MGS film for the time-being, but if Prince of Persia or another game adaptation makes money this year, then perhaps Konami might have a change of heart.