Metal Gear movie - your impressions?

[Negative Creep]

Playing through all of the MG games always left me with the feeling of just having watched an epic movie, only I was able to control the events in said movie... well, to a certain degree, at least.

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Collider.com has an interview up with Mike De Luca, the producer for the Metal Gear Solid movie. He’s produced films such as Boogie Nights, Little Nicky, and the upcoming 21. In the interview, he has a really blunt answer for the most likely common question of “What are you doing to do to finally make a kick-*** video game movie?”

“I mean, hopefully not screw it up. For me adapting a video game is just like adapting a book or a play or any other…whenever you’re adapting from another medium for film you try to take into account what you need to do to make it a movie. With books it’s how you compensate for not being inside a character’s head and with video games I think what you have to compensate for is the loss of interactivity, you know.”

He also mentions that he wants viewers to have the same feeling they had as when they left “Robocop” or “The Matrix” which, if he can pull off, would be very a welcome change to the sea of Street Fighter and Hitman-type movies out there.

An another good fact is that, they are planning to get writer/director Kurt Wimmer to adopt the screenplay for the film. Though De Luca didn’t directly state it, this probably means that Wimmer is also up to direct the big budget affair, as his previous films, Equilibrium starring Christian Bale and Ultraviolet starring Millo Jovovich, were similar fanboy-intensive, kinetic action/genre flicks. Neither one of those films connected at the box office, however, so MGS would be the director’s closest shot at bagging a sure thing, the whole video game curse notwithstanding. Wimmer’s next screenplay to hit the big screen will be April’s LAPD thriller Street Kings with Keanu Reeves.

[OME6A]

I'd be very concerned that the producer thinks that RoboCop and The Matrix are comparable films.

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Originally Posted by OME6A

I'd be very concerned that the producer thinks that RoboCop and The Matrix are comparable films.

True, but at least it's good that he has the right idea about the feel the movie should convey........ .

However i think that a good MGS4 MOvie can be directed only by Wachowski brothers or Cristopher Nolan. It would be really hard to expect a bad METAL gear movie out of them.

[OME6A]

No way. Wachowski's are way too over the top. Paul Greengrass, director of the last two Bourne movies, would be an excellent choice.

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Originally Posted by OME6A

I think a lot of the characters and themes of Metal Gear would have a hard time being accepted by western audiances. In addition to that, Metal Gear's a niche title. It's not widely popular, so it'd have a small audience off the bat.

Honestly, I don't see a movie ever happening. Christ, they even abandoned the Halo movie and that title has a much larger fanbase, and a movie would've made money hand over fist.

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It seems correct, but I guess you forgot that HALO has a protaganist who never speaks !!!! How do you make a film out of him?

[OME6A]

Originally Posted by metal_gear_pain

It seems correct, but I guess you forgot that HALO has a protaganist who never speaks !!!! How do you make a film out of him?

Ah ignorance must be bliss. There were plenty of times where Master Chief spoke.

I guess you never played Halo.

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Originally Posted by OME6A

Ah ignorance must be bliss. There were plenty of times where Master Chief spoke.

I guess you never played Halo.

oh god ? Please dont ..

I know you meant it for fun ( i hope so), but i dont want to misdirect this thread anyway. Hence i will come back to the question: " How do you make a movie out of him ? ". I will give you the only way the director himself could ever come up :

Neil Blomkamp, director of the stalled Halo film, said the movie would have depicted the character as "the most important supporting cast member" because of his silent and faceless nature. Instead, "other characters around him [...] did most of the emotional heavy lifting", with their story exploring their perception of the Chief.

Now the bigger surprise , unknown to you, They were finally planning to make the first movie without Master Chef itself !! Yeah, i know why ..

[strictlystyles]

Originally Posted by metal_gear_pain

It seems correct, but I guess you forgot that HALO has a protaganist who never speaks !!!! How do you make a film out of him?

Thats why its called a franchise, theres a whole universe you can use a material for a movie, even when he doesnt speak much. Id like a movie about the beggining of the spartan program and make it like starship troopers. Thatd be nice.

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Originally Posted by strictlystyles

Id like a movie about the beggining of the spartan program and make it like starship troopers. Thatd be nice.

The problem is that there never has been any trilogy kind of movie in history, ( and never will be) which doesnt start off without glorifying the aspects of the lead character. Yes, these are the typical cliches of story-telling, but no movie franchise will ever start off by focussing more on side-worlds embedding the protagonist.