The Metal Gear Solid Movie Is Back On, With Final Destination: Bloodlines Directors In Charge

A movie adjustment of Metal Gear Solid is successful nan useful again, this clip from filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, nan board of Final Destination: Bloodlines, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The duo are reviving nan task astatine Columbia Pictures arsenic portion of a caller first-look woody pinch Sony, nan latest effort successful what's been aggregate decades of activity to move nan blockbuster stealth crippled into a blockbuster film.

"Metal Gear Solid was thing short of a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that everlastingly revolutionized video games," Lipovsky and Stein said successful a statement. "We are thrilled and honored to bring Hideo Kojima's iconic characters and unforgettable world to life."

Lipovsky and Stein's scary bona fides helped make Bloodlines a captious and commercialized hit erstwhile it came retired successful 2025, and nan board person a assortment of different IP-focused genre films successful nan works, including a sequel to Gremlins for Warner Bros. and an animated Venom movie for Sony. It remains to beryllium seen really precisely nan duo will construe Metal Gear Solid's unsocial quirks to film, though.

Metal Gear Solid is heavy indebted to head Hideo Kojima's ain sensation successful action and spy cinema, while besides being successful speech pinch video games themselves successful a measurement that wouldn't people construe to film. And moreover if you removed those metatextual unsmooth edges, tin it really beryllium Metal Gear Solid without Kojima's equal parts charming and awkward writing?

Attempts to create a movie type of nan crippled day backmost to 2006, erstwhile Kojima first shared that an adjustment was successful nan works. Columbia Pictures announced a caller type of nan film successful 2012, pinch Avi Arad, erstwhile caput of Marvel Studios, producing. In 2014, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, nan head of Kong: Skull Island, was attached to direct that adaptation. And six years aft that, Oscar Isaac was reportedly formed arsenic Solid Snake. Arad and his boy Ari Arad are still producing this latest return connected nan game, but pinch Lipovsky and Stein successful charge, that older type of Metal Gear Solid is apt dead. Still, dream springs eternal that we’ll get to spot a man hide successful a cardboard container connected nan large surface someday.