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Last year at E3, Kojima Productions revealed that they were working on a live-action Metal Gear Solid film. The updated news from late last week, is that Sony Pictures will be heading up the film.
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo last year, Konami revealed that work had begun on a live-action movie based on Metal Gear Solid. The news broke via a pamphlet for Studio Kojima, the Konami-owned development house headed up by Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima.
“I have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a long time, but we have finally settled on an arrangement,” Kojima said in a statement.
“False facts aside, a movie project is underway. I have finalized a Class-A contract with a party in Hollywood.”
For eight months, the identity of the aforementioned “party” was unknown. That changed this week, when Sony Pictures Entertainment vice chairman Yair Landau revealed his studio is developing the project.
“We’re working with the Metal Gear guys,” Landau told GameSpot following his D.I.C.E. summit keynote address in Las Vegas.
“It’s a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie telling. But the question is, ‘How do you translate Snake’s experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?'”
Landau also hinted the Metal Gear Solid movie may just be the beginning.
“There are other games we are looking to develop,” the executive said.
“We’re working with one of my favorite producers right now on an idea for an EverQuest movie.”
Source:
Gamespot
Related Links :
Kojima Productions,
Metal Gear Solid @ Wiki
