A Solid metal gear A movie starring Oscar Isaac as everyone’s favorite badass spy, Solid Snake, has been in the works for a while, but it’s been a while since we’ve had any news on what the video game adaptation might entail. Luckily we have our own movie space where the franchise we wanted to share could start.
Isaac himself gave us our latest update on the Solid metal gear Movie he performed on the Disney Plus Show red carpet moon knight, as We Got This Covered previously reported. When asked by IGN for an update, Isaac said back in March:
“We are looking for. We’re looking like Solid Snake. We climb through air ducts, we seek history.”
Isaac’s comment seems to indicate that the Solid metal gear The film’s co-writers – Jay Basu and Derek Connolly – and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts may still be struggling to settle on the plot for a first screen excursion for the remarkably dense and sci-fi-heavy military fiction video game series focus, which is most famous for their stealth elements.
Coincidentally, the author of this article previously created a TikTok in which he gave his own pitch on where a movie should start Solid metal gear could take place: in the jungle in the midst of a storyline set in Big Boss’ Outer Heaven, à la the MSX original metal gears Game from 1987.
Basically, we want to create a franchise that’s kind of a mix between anime and James Bond. First of all, the first film can be quite realistic – you could almost believe that the story is taking place in real life. Then it just gets more and more fantastical and sci-fi with every movie.
In the tradition of classic film pitches, with the first we look at already established films as inspiring “templates”. Solid metal gear Film drawing from two films: the Vietnam-era survival drama Saving the Dawn and the Vietnam War epic apocalypse now.
Similar to apocalypse nowthe plot of the first Solid metal gear The film may focus on a mid-career soldier, Isaac’s Solid Snake, who is given a top-secret mission to take down a colonel gone insane, big boss, and who has created his own nation of soldiers, known as Outer Heaven.
As the film unfolds in a jungle setting, Snake must rely on survival tactics to withstand the harsh environment, e.g. B. collecting rainwater for drinking and using wildlife as a food source, much like how Christian Bale’s character Dieter Dangler survives in it Saving the Dawn in the jungle of Laos.
If you haven’t seen the survival drama based on a true story directed by Werner Herzog, do yourself a favor and check it out, and tell me if Bale eats a live snake in it Saving the Dawn isn’t the closest we’ve gotten to one yet Solid metal gear Fairy tales in film form. The Oscar-winner actually captured a live snake for the scene, too, he recalled in an interview with MTV, though he bit into a dummy prop when it came to the actual smacking part.
The first Solid metal gear Movie can be a survival thriller with action thrown in – sort of like The Batman was a noir thriller with action mixed in – and not like James Bondian. This allows the film to maintain the stealth influence of the source material while also serving as an excellent vehicle for plenty of character development.
Snake will also have a best friend, similar to Steve Zhan’s character in Saving the Dawn, which he must break out of a POW camp. Snake will accomplish this by being captured himself, sharing a cell with his companion, and using the two stealth techniques to ambush the guards by memorizing their shift changes, in a scene similar to the escape scene in Saving the Dawn. Snake’s friend will be his comrade Gray Fox.
As the film progresses, we learn that Big Boss has gained nuclear abilities with a still-experimental prototype of an advanced two-legged tank called the Metal Gear, which can traverse rough terrain to launch a nuclear strike from anywhere.
On the way to Big Boss, Gray betrays Fox Snake and reveals that he works for the enemy. They have a fist fight in a minefield and it seems like Snake has defeated his former friend, although Snake does not verify that Gray Fox is dead after stepping on a landmine. Enemy fire forces Snake to evacuate the minefield instead of searching for Gray Fox’s body.
Eventually, Snake confronts Big Boss, who operates the Metal Gear weapon to destroy Snake. But Snake can defeat the tank with a rocket launcher. Snake then pulls Big Boss out of the Metal Gear’s cockpit to finish the job. Big Boss tells Snake that he is his father while dying in Snake’s arms.
At the end of the film, Snake’s reinforcements blow up the makeshift rogue nation of soldiers known as Outer Heaven – and the prototype tanks – and Snake escapes in a rescue helicopter.
In the follow-up film, we take the franchise to the Shadow Moses Island incident in Alaska, where a group of terrorists are attempting not only to rebuild the Metal Gear prototype and make it fully functional, but also to revive Big Boss’s dream of an army of Mercenaries – roughly translating the events of the 1998 PlayStation title Solid metal gear.
As in the game, over the course of the film we learn that the leader of the terrorists is called Liquid Snake and that he is Solid Snake’s long-lost brother. Liquid will reveal to Snake that they are both clones of Big Boss.
And just like the 1998 classic, Gray Fox will return as a cybernetically-enhanced prototype super-soldier. Similar to Sebestation Stan’s Bucky Barnes arc in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, right through the movies Captain America and its continuation winter soldier, we can establish Gray Fox as Solid Snake’s friend in the first film, only for him to return as the sometimes villainous cyborg ninja in the sequel. Similar to Bucky, it is revealed that Gray Fox was captured by a nefarious group who experimented on him after he was discovered with serious injuries following his bare-knuckle fight with Snake in the minefield
The existence of the cyborg ninja in the film’s sequel is an example of how the franchise can become more and more fantastic as time goes by, with each installment being more stunning than the last.
From this point on, every mainline game will be in the Solid metal gear Series that focus on the modern timeline of events can get their own loosely adapted film translation, but perhaps leave the lesser aspects on the cutting room floor. For example, an adaptation of the game from 2001 sons of liberty might work best if Solid Snake remains the main character in this movie instead of shifting the focus to Raiden like in the game.
That sons of liberty A film adaptation might draw inspiration from films like The Matrix and the aforementioned Captain America: The Winter Soldierwith his AI shadow government conspiracy known as The Patriots.
Until we achieved the task of making a cinematic adaptation of the 2008 game Patriots’ Weapons, hopefully the film franchise has developed enough of its own identity to simply branch off from the game series entirely – but operate in the same spirit as Hideo Kojima’s beloved creations. It might be best for them MGS Movies to eventually become more independent of the games so we don’t have to include some of the more goofy characters like Drebin and his monkey companions, the diarrhea-prone Johnny Sasaki, and the villain mashup abomination named Liquid Ocelot, the gunslinger inspired by his Arm transplant donor seems obsessed.
As for the origin story of Big Boss – as we’ve seen in games like Meal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walkers, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and The phantom pain – There is so much material there that instead of a film franchise of its own, it could make for a compelling multi-season prequel TV series. Imagine high quality historical military drama of HBO caliber band of brothers, in production value, however, season after season focused on the fictional military career of the legendary Big Boss. Such a concept and the greater breathing room in a series format could potentially outperform the mainline Solid metal gear Film franchises in terms of quality storytelling and compelling themes, it should come to fruition.
Case in point is the nearly endless fodder for dramatic storytelling that exists in the relationship between Big Boss, AKA Naked Snake, and his mentor, The Boss Metal Gear Solid 3. Wouldn’t it be great to see The Boss and Naked Snake coming up with hand-to-hand combat together – and how their friendship blossomed on the battlefield – and blossomed over multiple seasons?
We’re not saying star Oscar Isaac, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, and writers Jay Basu and Derek Connolly need to run with any of these ideas for what’s to come Solid metal gear Movie. But in case the filmmaking team behind the project has writer’s block, consider that this is the oil they could use to lubricate the cogs – the metal gears, that is.
There is currently no release date for the Solid metal gear Film according to IMDb, and the film is in pre-production.