Metal Gear Solid is up for an adaptation
Posted on March 17, 2008
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It’ been a long time since I posted about a film adaptation based on a video game but now the wait is over. Not that any of us have been waiting really but… Without further ado I bring you todays news: Dark Horizons reports that writer Kurt Wimmer will possibly pen the Sony Pictures film adaptation of Konami’s hit video game series “Metal Gear Solid“.
Talking with producer Mike DeLuca at the premiere of “21″ in Las Vegas, he revealed that they hope to meet with Wimmer in the next few weeks to talk about him writing the script and possibly directing.
Metal Gear Solid’s story centers on Solid Snake, a retired soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons disposal facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from FOXHOUND, a renegade special forces unit. He attempts to liberate their two hostages, the head of DARPA and the president of a major arms manufacturer, and stops the terrorists from launching a nuclear strike.
The fourth game in the series comes out in June exclusively on the Playstation 3 and is one of the single most anticipated games of the year.
It brings me great pleasure and pride knowing I have given both the video game community and the movie lovers some really good news. No, really, my pleasure.
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