Sony is finally adapting Metal Gear Solid as a movie, and they’ve found the perfect person to play grizzled super-spy Solid Snake.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Deadline reports that Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and a lot of other stuff) will be playing video game icon Solid Snake in a movie adaptation of the long-running Metal Gear Solid video game franchise.
The first Metal Gear Solid game came out in 1996, and followed super-spy Solid Snake as he infiltrated a nuclear weapons disposal facility to stop a terrorist organization called Foxhound, which had gotten its hands on a new payload delivery system: the famous “Metal Gear.” From the start, the games were very cinematic, to the point where it’s shocking it’s taken this long to get a movie. Playing these games, you can tell that creator Hideo Kojima really wants to be a film director, and now, finally, he’ll see his baby on the big screen.
The Metal Gear Solid movie will be directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Derek Connolly. And Isaac seems like a good fit for Snake. He can do grizzled, he can do badass, he can probably make his voice sound like he’s smoked five packs a day for the last 20 years of his life…he’s got this.
Although I don’t know when they’re going to find time to shoot the movie given Isaac’s busy schedule. Even as the pandemic has thrown a wrench into film and TV production, Isaac has remained booked, starring opposite Jessica Chastain in Scenes From A Marriage, signing up for the title role in Marvel’s Moon Knight series on Disney+, and more. Plus, he’s got Dune coming out next year. Add this to the pile.
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