METAL GEAR SOLID Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Also Wants To Make an Animated Series
The director behind The Kings of Summer and Kong: Skull Island, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, has been in the process of developing a feature film adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid video game for years. This is a project that fans have been patiently waiting for, but everyone involved is taking their sweet time with it.
While he’s working on that, the director also revealed that he is also looking to develop an animated series based on the game, and he is looking to bring back original voice actor David Hayter to voice Solid Snake in the series!
Vogt-Roberts recently appeared on Animal Talking and explained that he's "trying to get an animated series going that brings back David Hayter, that brings back the original voice cast, and doing that in tandem [with the MGS movie]."
I loved Hayter’s version of the character, but he hasn’t voiced the character since Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker back in 2010. He ended up being replaced with Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.
As for the film project, Vogt-Roberts admits that it hasn’t been easy trying to get the adaptation of the game up and running, but he is not giving up! He says:
"I've been on that movie for six years and I've been fighting every single day to make sure that we translate that movie properly. This is my baby. I've been working on this thing for six years, trying to make it so it is the disruptive, punk-rock, true to Metal Gear, true to Kojima-san spirit version of what this is and I will continue to fight for it every day."
The filmmaker goes on to explain that he blames the complexity of the project for the difficulty in getting it made. He wants to get the kind of budget that allows him to bring the video game's action sequences to life in live-action form:
"It's a difficult thing. Getting any movie made in Hollywood is hard. Getting something like Metal Gear made where it is so complex is even harder. That's why I'm trying to make it for a budget where you can do crazy shit, where you can do the Metal Gear version of it, where it isn't neutered."
The director also shared a piece of advice that he was given regarding the movie by Kojima, simply telling him to "betray your audience."
I really hope that this movie eventually happens one day, and that Vogt-Roberts is the guy who makes it, especially after all this work that he’s put into it!