A 'Metal Gear Solid' video game movie script is in the process of being written.
Metal Gear Solid
The franchise, which is a series of action-adventure stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima, is being developed by film by director Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
It was first officially confirmed during E3 2006 and has since been at various stages of development.
Now, Vogt-Roberts has told Collider: "Metal Gear Solid is probably the most important franchise to me on the planet. It is such a genius, idiosyncratic work and being able to spend time with [Hideo] Kojima recently has been like a dream. He's the best and his whole team is the best. We are working on the script. That is a property that I will fight tooth and nail to make sure is done properly because it's so easy to screw it up and so easy for a studio to try and make it into G.I. Joe or try and make it into Mission: Impossible or try and make it into something that it's not. Metal Gear Solid needs to be exactly what it needs to be, which is Metal Gear Solid."
It's important for Vogt-Roberts to maintain the tone of the video game in the movie.
He said: "I think it'd be a massive film, I think it'd be an incredible film, but it needs to be done in a way that completely honours what Metal Gear is because it's a classic and it's a seminal work not just in video games, but in media."
And, although the film is in the early stages, he is open to the project being either a PG-13 with a big budget or R-rated with a smaller fund, but most importantly he wants it to be the best it can be.
He explained: "There are hyper-violent parts to Metal Gear but I would not necessarily call the hyper-violent part the core element of it versus like the tone and the voice and the philosophies that the characters exhibit. Those characters sort of are these walking philosophies, so I think nailing that part is far more important necessarily than thinking about the rating at this point, because right now we're just trying to get the best version of it."
Vogt-Roberts' next project is 'Kong: Skull Island', which premieres in March.
Meanwhile the next 'Metal Gear' game is this year's 'Metal Gear Survive'.
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