Maybe the Metal Gear Solid film will actually be good? Oscar Isaac discusses being Snake

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Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:23:55 +0000

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The Dune and Star Wars star gets it so can the Metal Gear movie hit the
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Theyre getting better, but were still yet to have a truly great video game movie adaptation. Could the upcoming Metal Gear Solid film , staring Oscar Isaac and directed by Kong: Skull Islands Jordan Vogt-Roberts turn the tide?

Were quietly hopeful speaking in a new interview about his starring role as Solid Snake, Isaac is certainly saying all the right things to get us
excited.

"I just loved the game," Isaac told Total Film when asked what brought him to the project.

"I love the feeling that the game would give me every time Id play. Its just
a strangely isolated, mournful, lonely game to play that has these incredible moments of violence and terror, with these weird, psychedelic concepts and villains. But, yes, its kind of like psychedelic military horror things that happen.

"And the truth is, underneath the whole thing, its an anti-war story. So I think those are the elements I really love. And, like I said, I love the feel of playing it, and the big question of: can something like that be
transferred or can you explore those themes in a really interesting way on film?" Dune producers are fighting to keep the movie a theatrical release Godzilla vs Kong should not be the end of the MonsterVerse Metal Gear Solid remake could be the next big PS5 exclusive Analysis: A solid movie?

Its been a busy few years for video game movie adaptations, from the light hearted Detective Pikachu to the gory Mortal Kombat , and now looking forward to Tom Hollands Uncharted movie and an upcoming The Last of Us TV show . Film adaptations like Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mortal Kombat punched above their weight and delivered movies that, whilst not all out classics, hit the right beats to keep fans smiling.

So whats changed since the god awful 90s adaptations, such as Super Mario and Street Fighter, on the silver screen? Id say its a three-fold change.

Firstly, weve got a wave of younger directors who grew up with the games and have a reverence for the source material that theyre working on. In the case of the Metal Gear film, Vogt-Roberts is just 36 years old, and was a fan of the Metal Gear games growing up. He doesnt need to be sold on what makes the series special he was there alongside every other PlayStation gamer the
first time around.

Secondly, in the case of games like Metal Gear Solid, they themselves were directly inspired by films, and (compared 8-bit and 16-bit franchises) were built on technologies that allowed for cinematic presentations. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has always been a cinephile, and Metal Gear Solids fixed-perspectives allowed him to ape the drama that movie-style camera
angles bring. Its something that Vogt-Roberts can lift wholesale if he likes.

Finally, theres been a shift in power between the Hollywood studios and the games companies whose properties are being developed. According to Mordor Intelligence s industry reports, the global gaming industry is expected to be worth $314.40 BILLION by 2026.

By comparison, 2020 saw a decline in global revenue for the film industry
down to $80.8 billion admittedly a knock on effect of the pandemic, but regardless exists as part of a trend that sees cinema slowly shrinking in comparison to gamings growth. Hollywood needs the properties recognised by a generation of video game players, arguably more than the video game industry needs Hollywood. And gamers are a vocal bunch if their favorite titles are butchered on the silver screen, theyll let the studios know it, so its in the studios interest to deliver faithful adaptations.

In Metal Gear Solid, we potentially have a star and director on the same page as the fans of the games the film draws inspiration from. The fact that Isaac (and, by extension, Vogt-Roberts) can identify the psychedelic nature of characters including Psycho Mantis, and the games underlying anti-war
message, as opposed to turning the whole thing into a Rambo flick with mechs, is sending the exact sort of reassurance that fans of the series will want. Metal Gear Solid 6 : everything there is to know



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