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As Solid Snake would say
A METAL GEAR!!!? D:
Coming Soon had a chance to speak with producer Michael De Luca (21, Ghost Rider) and he passed along news that a Metal Gear Solid movie, based off the long-running hit espionage video game franchise,
is once again going ahead. The project has been in the very early
stages for sometime (see eerily similar Slashfilm post from Feb ‘07), and faced a set back from the writer’s strike. Moreover,
De Luca says that a meeting will take place in the “next few weeks”
with writer/director Kurt Wimmer about adapting a screenplay for the film.
Though De Luca didn’t directly state it, this probably means that
Wimmer is also up to direct the big budget affair, as his previous
films, Equilibrium starring Christian Bale and Ultraviolet starring Millo Jovovich, were similar fanboy-intensive, kinetic
action/genre flicks. Neither one of those films connected at the box
office, however, so MGS would be the director’s closest shot
at bagging a sure thing, the whole video game curse notwithstanding.
Wimmer’s next screenplay to hit the big screen will be April’s LAPD
thriller Street Kings with Keanu Reeves.
Video game synopsis: Metal Gear Solid follows Solid Snake,
a retired soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons disposal facility
to neutralize the terrorist threat from FOXHOUND, a renegade special
forces unit.
Full Story at http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/15/kurt-wimmer-to-write-and-possibly-direct-metal-gear-solid-movie
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As Luke reported last week, we now know three of the locations in Metal Gear Solid 4: the Middle East, South America and Eastern Europe. But there's more: When I was interviewing Ryan Payton for last week's Game Head at the E For All Expo, he also let slip that there are two other top-secret locations.
Any guesses as to the other two locales? Here's one comment from Ryan that didn't make the Game Head show: "The last location is a place you've been waiting to visit for 20 years."
Also, Ryan mentions that the opening sequence for the game will include live action footage mixed with CGI. It's being created by Logan, the design firm behind the iPod ads and the Metal Gear Solid 4 logo.
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Lol I just pictured snake trying to veto a map in halo3.
That guy in the interview gave away quite a bit of info, normally that should be tight lipped.
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