Guy behind Metal Gear Solid movie also wants an MGS TV show

Metal Gear Solid is finally making its way to the big screen. And if the director has his way, the original voice cast will feature on the small screen, too.

Of all the video games currently being turned into movies and TV shows — Fallout, The Last of Us, Uncharted and so on — Metal Gear Solid may make the most sense. Anyone who’s played Hideo Kojima’s sweeping spy saga in the past couple decades knows that many of them feel like movies already, with Solid Snake and the rest of the cast talking, fighting and philosophizing their way through a twisty plot full of conspiracies, action set pieces, and long-winded monologues about nanomachines.

In fact, I’m kind of shocked it took this long for Hollywood to make a Metal Gear Solid movie, but making it they are, with Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts in the director’s chair. It sounds like he’s a real fan of the games, having happily enthused about Sniper Wolf, Psycho Mantis, the Cyborg Ninja and more to anyone who will listen over the years. “If you make a Metal Gear movie it needs to be […] completely committed to one tone but then goofy the next moment, and then stylised and bizarre but then beautiful and reflective, and just that whole spectrum of things that is Kojima’s voice,” he said in 2017. Yeah, that about covers it.

And Vogt-Roberts is still hard at work on the movie even in quarantine, as he said while a guest on Animal Talking (yes, that is a talk show set inside the world of Animal Crossing) last week. “This is my baby,” the director reiterated. “I’ve been working on this thing for six years, trying to make it so it is the disruptive, punk-rock, true to Metal Gear, true to Kojima-san spirit version of what this is and I will continue to fight for it every day.”

And if Vogt-Roberts has his way, he’ll do more than just make the movie. He’s also “trying to get an animated series going that brings back David Hayter, that brings back the original voice cast, and doing that in tandem [with the MGS movie].”

Hayter played lead characters Solid Snake and Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid games for over a decade, until he was replaced by Kiefer Sutherland in 2015’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. For a lot of people of a certain age, Hayter will always be Snake. It sounds like Vogt-Roberts is one of them.

It’s probably too early to get our hopes up about the Metal Gear Solid movie, much less a TV show, but I do like that Vogt-Roberts has such obvious love for the series. (Side note: a boat from Kong: Skull Island is named Gray Fox, after the character from the games.) And hey, with so many video games making the jump to both the big and small screens, there’s never been a better time for a project like this.

Let’s hope Sony Pictures lets him cut loose. As for when the Metal Gear Movie will be out, it’ll probably be a while; I don’t even think they’ve started casting yet. Standby for now.

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