Amongst video games that fans have long hoped would get a movie or TV show adaptation, Metal Gear Solid is nearly assuredly at the highest of that list. Consider that dream near reality, as a Metal Gear Solid movie has officially been greenlit by Sony.
As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, film-making duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, most famous for his or her work on Final Destination Bloodlines, have been signed by Sony to “a sweeping and expansive first-look deal, which covers all the studio’s film labels.”
Most notably, the deal will see the duo direct Sony’s Columbia Pictures adaptation of Metal Gear Solid, the long-lasting Hideo Kojima-created video game that’s widely considered amongst one of the best titles to ever be created. The pair shall be joined by Avi Arad and Ari Arad, who’re producing the movie.
“Metal Gear Solid was nothing wanting a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that without end revolutionized video games,” Lipovsky and Stein said in a press release. “We’re thrilled and honored to bring Hideo Kojima’s iconic characters and unforgettable world to life.”
Beyond the Metal Gear Solid film, a newly-created company, Wonderlab, will help develop movies for the duo to direct or to function producers on for Sony. The main focus shall be on “wildly fun, business, character-driven, genre-bending movies.”
“Zach and Adam are thrilling storytellers, masters of visuals and suspense, and two of probably the most impressive director/producers working today,” Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch said in a press release. “With projects across all the corporate’s film labels, we’re so comfortable to create a house for them, and proud to have them as a part of the Sony family.”
As massive a fan Kojima is of movies, securing an adaptation of his work has been difficult to say the least. In 2006, Kojima revealed at that yr’s E3 conference that MGS would indeed be receiving a live-action adaptation.
“I actually have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a protracted time, but we now have finally settled on an arrangement,” Kojima said on the time. “False facts aside, a movie project is underway. I actually have finalized a Class-A contract with a celebration in Hollywood.”
By 2010, nonetheless, the movie stalled out. It was later revived in 2012, and went through years of treatment, with its most important announcement being that Oscar Isaac could be playing the role of Solid Snake.
It has been all silence until today’s news. Which is to say, 20 years later, Metal Gear Solid is finally getting its adaptation.