Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac is still eager to lead the long-gestating Metal Gear Solid adaptation, with the actor assuring fans of the hugely popular and influential video game that he is working hard to make it happen. Speaking with Comicbook.com, Isaac, whose involvement in the Metal Gear Solid movie was first announced back in 2020, is relayed his excitement over untapping the potential inherent in transforming the stealth games into a live-action thriller.
Isaac is clearly passionate about the Metal Gear Solid franchise, which is something that should fill fans of the game with hope. A hope not often felt when Hollywood attempt to turn the pixels of a video game into a live action endeavor.
“We want it to happen. Be excited. What’s the script? What’s the story? What’s the take? […] But hopeful that comes to fruition because there’s so much potential for that. It’s an incredible game. It’s my favorite.”
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Like so many video games, the bones of Metal Gear Solid do suggest how well a big screen adaptation could work. Created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami, Metal Gear Solid remains one of the most recognizable and celebrated video games of the modern era and follows a special forces operative who is assigned the task of finding the titular superweapon “Metal Gear.” Featuring all manner of stealth, espionage, and action, alongside an assortment of cyberpunk, dystopian, political and philosophical themes, Metal Gear Solid clearly has the right ingredients to create an epic film franchise.
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This is not the first semi-promising update that Oscar Isaac has provided, with the actor revealing earlier this year that development is still moving forward. Though it is at the very early stages, with production still searching for the right way into the adaptation. “We’re searching, we’re searching like Solid Snake. We’re climbing through air ducts, we’re looking for the story,” the actor said back in March.
An adaptation of Metal Gear Solid has been in development since as far back as 2006. Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts signed on to helm the project in 2014, and has since revealed that two drafts of the potential script have been completed. One thing that Vogt-Roberts is determined to see realized it an R-rating, with the filmmaker believing that a Metal Gear Solid movie needs to be a little risky. “It’s about doing it for a price so you can make the riskier, balls-to-the-wall, Kojima-san version of it,” he said. “To me, it’s a way to make the first great video game movie where it doesn’t matter that it’s based on a video game.”
Before growing some gruff-looking stubble and slipping into a bandana, Oscar Isaac will first return to the Spider-Verse in the upcoming Sony sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Isaac will reprise the role of Miguel O’Hara aka Spider-Man 2099, an alternate version of Spider-Man from the future which he first played in a post-credits scene at the end of the first Into the Spider-Verse outing.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is scheduled to be released on June 2, 2023, with a sequel, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, is set to be released on March 29, 2024.
