Jordan Vogt-Roberts Updates The Status Of His METAL GEAR SOLID Film
Fresh off his stellar live-action Destiny 2 trailer, Kong Skull: Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts is preparing to tackle an ambitious, live-action Metal Gear Solid movie.
Last month, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts stated that he needed to take some time off after an exhausting shoot on Kong: Skull Island before tackling Metal Gear Solid. Well, downtime for Roberts apparently means shooting a jaw-dropping live-action teaser trailer for the preiminent first-person multiplayer shooter on the market. While talking about that project with Eurogamer, Jordan revealed that the gears are starting to turn on MGS.
"We're about to hire a new writer on Metal Gear. It's probably the most complicated property on the planet. The reasons people love that franchise are - well, you need to run towards those reasons as opposed to away from them. The most beautiful thing for me, the past few months, is that Kong's been a success, critically and commercially, and that gave me an incredible amount of freedom to go to Sony and our producers and say we live in a world that's post-Deadpool and post-Logan. With the success of Kong, that obviously breeds a bit more trust so I can say let's make the Kojima version of this, the version that commits to the weird and strange and isn't necessarily what you think a big blockbuster franchise could be."
"Committing to the ideologies, the philosophies, the weirdness and the Japanese elements and the fourth-wall breaking and all these great things, that's what Metal Gear is, and that's why the franchise has endured so let's embrace that as opposed to being afraid of it. We're working to get a script that the studio says 'yes, we want to make this', and it's something that all the fans can say 'f**k yeah that's my Metal Gear'. It's a tricky thing, there's a long road ahead but that's the approach with it."
It sounds like Sony definitely has the right man for the job and it's very interesting that he says he wants to make the Kojima-version of the film given the latter's fractured relationship with Konami. That statement is pretty clear indication that Konami has very little involvement with the pic as film rights are currently with Columbia Pictures and Sony. Kojima's new independent studio, Kojima Productions, has a distribution deal with Sony Computer Entertainment.