Sony Pictures Working On Metal Gear Movie
An executive for Sony Pictures Entertainment has confirmed that the movie studio is closely involved in bringing the Metal Gear property to the big screen.
Published: February 9, 2007
On April 28th, 2006, Hideo Kojima announced during his weekly podcast that plans were already underway to create a movie based upon the very popular Metal Gear series. Kojima Productions later official confirmed the existence of the film project within their catalogs that were distributed during the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo. The article within the catalog explained that a movie project was underway, and that a contract was being finalized with a party in Hollywood.
Since that time, there has been little more than a peep about the Metal Gear movie, and who exactly that mysterious “party” was that would be involved in the movies’ creation. Then last week, Yair Landau, Vice Chairman for Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed that his studio is in fact developing the project.
Landau mentioned the following to GameSpot during an interview following his keynote address in Las Vegas:
"We're working with the Metal Gear guys. 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 continued by stating that this first Metal Gear movie may be just the beginning, and that there are other game-based movie projects on the horizon:
"There are other games we are looking to develop. We're working with one of my favorite producers right now on an idea for an EverQuest movie."
The Metal Gear movie project has seen its share of positive and negative buzz over the past few years. The movie has been long rumoured to be in development, even since the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PlayStation 2. Things really took a dramatic turn for the project when German director Uwe Boll claimed that he had received a script from Konami regarding a Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation. Boll is known throughout the world for his poor, low-budget video game film adaptations. Kojima quickly responded to Boll’s claims, by stating that he had never spoken with Boll and that it would be “impossible” to do a movie with him. It was at this point that the project really started to gain traction.
The big question that this announcement now poses, is whether or not this means that Metal Gear Solid 4 will remain a PlayStation 3 exclusive. With another Sony company so tightly involved with the motion picture, one would think that Konami’s relationship with Sony is stronger than ever, and that it would be unlikely that we’d see an MGS 4 port arrive on the Xbox 360. However, it should also be noted that Sony Pictures is still a separate entity from Sony Computer Entertainment, and while independent Sony divisions do come together on occasion to work on projects, they also tend to work independently of one another (Toshiba’s involvement with the Cell processor, and then their involvement with the HD-DVD format seem to come to mind).
We will have more on this story as it breaks.
Since that time, there has been little more than a peep about the Metal Gear movie, and who exactly that mysterious “party” was that would be involved in the movies’ creation. Then last week, Yair Landau, Vice Chairman for Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed that his studio is in fact developing the project.
Landau mentioned the following to GameSpot during an interview following his keynote address in Las Vegas:
"We're working with the Metal Gear guys. 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 continued by stating that this first Metal Gear movie may be just the beginning, and that there are other game-based movie projects on the horizon:
"There are other games we are looking to develop. We're working with one of my favorite producers right now on an idea for an EverQuest movie."
The Metal Gear movie project has seen its share of positive and negative buzz over the past few years. The movie has been long rumoured to be in development, even since the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PlayStation 2. Things really took a dramatic turn for the project when German director Uwe Boll claimed that he had received a script from Konami regarding a Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation. Boll is known throughout the world for his poor, low-budget video game film adaptations. Kojima quickly responded to Boll’s claims, by stating that he had never spoken with Boll and that it would be “impossible” to do a movie with him. It was at this point that the project really started to gain traction.
The big question that this announcement now poses, is whether or not this means that Metal Gear Solid 4 will remain a PlayStation 3 exclusive. With another Sony company so tightly involved with the motion picture, one would think that Konami’s relationship with Sony is stronger than ever, and that it would be unlikely that we’d see an MGS 4 port arrive on the Xbox 360. However, it should also be noted that Sony Pictures is still a separate entity from Sony Computer Entertainment, and while independent Sony divisions do come together on occasion to work on projects, they also tend to work independently of one another (Toshiba’s involvement with the Cell processor, and then their involvement with the HD-DVD format seem to come to mind).
We will have more on this story as it breaks.