Sony is set to take one of gaming history's most lauded franchises, Metal Gear Solid, and turn it into a movie. The project is moving on apace too, as it has recruited Jay Basu, the writer of Fast Girls and Monsters: Dark Continent, to pen the screenplay, while Avi and Ari Arad - producers of nearly-everything comic book related in the past few years - to produce.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kings of Summer) is slated to direct, though his participation remains in rumour-ville at the moment.
While Sony has yet to comment on the news about the film's production, Deadline's speculation has it set during the first game, where Snake infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralise Foxhound, a renegade special forces unit.
As popular as the Metal Gear Solid series is though, it does feel like its coming full circle with this adaptation. The game series is based off of Hollywood movies, so for it to become a Hollywood film in turn seems a bit strange.
The style the filmmakers eventually settle on for its production will be very important for the final product. While it might be tempting to make it an ultra modern, or near-future take on the universe, it would be interesting to pay homage to the retro-future tech found in the 1998 classic by basing it a couple of decades ago.
