Metal Gear Solid (film)

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Metal Gear Solid (tentative title) is a live-action film, based on the Metal Gear video game series created by Hideo Kojima.

On April 28, 2006, Kojima announced in his weekly podcast, HIDECHAN! Radio, that "[they] are going to do it as a movie", referring to Metal Gear Solid, and that it is going to be in English. Kojima Productions distributed a catalog for upcoming games at E3 2006, which included an article on the movie project. In it, Kojima stated that "a movie project is underway", and that a contract with a party in Hollywood has been finalized.

Before the project was announced, German director Uwe Boll, known for his heavily criticized, low-budget video game-based films, claimed that he received a script from Konami for a possible Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation. In response, Kojima stated that they have never talked to Boll, and that "it's impossible we'd ever do a movie with him". After the announcement, Kojima reiterated that Boll will have nothing to do with the project.

Kojima has stated that he feels Viggo Mortensen "would make a perfect Snake". The Metal Gear Solid game is set in Alaska, and he states that this would be the perfect setting for the movie. Kojima has stated in the August 2006 issue of PSM also that it is a completely new story of the MGS series. It is unknown as of yet where in the MGS timeline it will take place, if it is indeed even canonical.

David Hayter, voice actor for the main character in the Metal Gear Solid games, Solid Snake, and scriptwriter on the X-Men films, has stated in an interview that he would love to do the screenplay. He has discussed it with the film producers, whom, according to Hayter, he is friends with. He hopes to be available, but scheduling might interfere, with him starting shooting of Black Widow, a Lion's Gate/Marvel Comics production, in Fall 2006. Lion's Gate has since dropped Black Widow.

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The Metal Gear Series

Main series	Metal Gear \| *' \| Metal Gear Solid* \| ' ' \|** ' \|
Supplemental titles	*' \| The Document of MGS2* \| ' \| ' \|** ' \| MG Saga \|
Side stories	Snake's Revenge \| \| Acid \| Acid 2 \| Metal Gear Solid (film)
Characters	Metal Gears \| Solid Snake \| Big Boss \| Raiden \| Gray Fox \| Roy Campbell \| Revolver Ocelot \| Hal Emmerich \| Meryl Silverburgh Recurring characters \| Metal Gear 1 & 2 \| Metal Gear Solid \| Metal Gear Solid 2 \| Metal Gear Solid 3 \| Metal Gear Acid series
Locations	Outer Heaven \| Zanzibar Land \| Shadow Moses \| Big Shell
Organizations	Philosophers \| Cobra unit \| Patriots \| FOXHOUND \| Genome Soldiers \| Philanthropy \| Dead Cell \| Sons of Liberty \| Outer Heaven (PMC)
Creators	Konami \| Kojima Productions \| Hideo Kojima Yoji Shinkawa \| Shuyo Murata \| Shinta Nojiri \| Norihiko Hibino \| Akio Otsuka \| David Hayter
Timelines	Metal Gear timeline \| Metal Gear timeline compared to reality

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