ShadowKingpin
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/30/8317357/the-metal-gear-solid-movie-now-has-a-writer
I really don't know what to think. I'm more excited for the Director than the Writer at this point.
Snap my neck if in the wrong forum.
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Metal Gear Solid Movie Gets Writer Jay Basu
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/30/8317357/the-metal-gear-solid-movie-now-has-a-writer
I really don't know what to think. I'm more excited for the Director than the Writer at this point.
Snap my neck if in the wrong forum.
bananafactory
Banned
That IMDB page
Not sure how I feel
Not sure how I feel
RadioHammer500
Banned
this isn't good my friends.. but i guess we'll see how it goes
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Every writer needs their make or break chance. This is his.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I guess if any game has a chance of being a good movie, it's MGS, Resident Evil, and Mortal Kombat.
Mortal Kombat did it successfully, so maybe MGS can too?
I feel like it's important that they understand that the movie should start out as a super serious military movie and then mess with all your expectations just like the game does.
A lot of the goofier elements probably need to be cut out or de-emphasized. More sniper wolf fights with meryl bleeding out and less vulcan raven talking about pulling ears and using an aircraft mounted gun.
Actually how about NO vulcan raven.
I actually find it weird that they don't have David Hayter writing it.. he's got experience with action movie writing and is incredibly familiar with the source material..
Mortal Kombat did it successfully, so maybe MGS can too?
I feel like it's important that they understand that the movie should start out as a super serious military movie and then mess with all your expectations just like the game does.
A lot of the goofier elements probably need to be cut out or de-emphasized. More sniper wolf fights with meryl bleeding out and less vulcan raven talking about pulling ears and using an aircraft mounted gun.
Actually how about NO vulcan raven.
I actually find it weird that they don't have David Hayter writing it.. he's got experience with action movie writing and is incredibly familiar with the source material..
Alex_Mexico
Member
/sigh without Kojima's involvement I don't know what to think anymore.
SteveWinwood
Member
In-demand Brit writer Jay Basu
Metal Gear Solid (announced)
2014 Monsters: Dark Continent
2012 The Dinosaur Project (co-writer)
2012 Fast Girls (screenplay)
2005 Song of Songs
In-demand
Metal Gear Solid (announced)
2014 Monsters: Dark Continent
2012 The Dinosaur Project (co-writer)
2012 Fast Girls (screenplay)
2005 Song of Songs
In-demand
Spring-Loaded
Member
The director's filmography tho
I do. I know I'm not looking forward to this movie. Or any future MG games. They may end up good, but I'm not looking forward to them.
brickarts295
Member
Shouldn't be too hard to write a script for MGS. All you need to do is copy and paste the script from the game and cut it up so I'll end up as a 2 and half hour movie, give Kojima bigger royalties, since were basically ripping off his game word for word, and your done.
Hopefully it means his characters aren't going to awkwardly spout philosophy in the most inhuman fashion for 30 fucking minutes at a time.
Seriously cut Vulcan raven's speech and the history of war and genes and it would pretty much be done. Cyborg ninja needs some changing too though somehow.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I wouldn't say it's all negative - other sources seem to be quite positive on his work, but he isn't quite well known yet. At 32 he's pretty young, could have even played the game when he was in his teens.
http://www.screendaily.com/features/stars-of-tomorrow/jay-basu/5029128.article
Universal also has him working on their classic monster movies which means something.
http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/jay-basu-recruited-universal-monsters-brain-trust/
legacyzero
Banned
IN--DEMAND
bananafactory
Banned
They say in demand but not what he is in demand for
Maybe he cooks a mean stew
Maybe he cooks a mean stew
7DollarHagane
Banned
The plot should follow this:
Breifing and launch of the one man SDV into shadow moses
Meeting with the DARPA chief
Shootout with meryl
Duel with Ocelot
Minefield and Deepthroat
fistfight with grey fox(perhaps he's half man half machine rather than totally cyborg)
Snake Finds Meryl in the women's restroom
Meryl used as bait by sniper wolf
Snake goes back to get a rifle, campbell voice over of his connection with meryl
Shootout with wolf
Capture and Torture
Escape from prison cell
Rex's storage facility and the PAL key
Fight with Metal Gear REX
Fight with Liquid
Escape
Naomi's confessions into credits.
That IMDB page
Not sure how I feel
he must've been pretty cheap with that resume.
Badlucktroll
Member
The need to get someone like the writer of Syriana or something. Kind of make it like a movie like that. This movie will also likely never get made, and will end up like the Bioshock film project
PerezDeCorcho
Member
Ugh.
A film adaptation sounds like such a downgrade.
A film adaptation sounds like such a downgrade.
literally who the thread
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Xpike
Unconfirmed Member
I don't see how a film adaptation can work, MGS relies so much on player interaction and time to develop its characters. Cutting it down to 2 hours means it'll probably end up being a generic war movie about Snake being a generic perfect soldier.
sakipon
Member
Why would people go see the exact same thing they've already seen?
Adaptations are not copies.
Badlucktroll
Member
it should be a cross between escape from new york/syriana
lordfroakie
Member
Tom Rothman probably recommended him:
http://deadline.com/2015/02/tom-rothman-replaces-amy-pascal-sony-1201380416/
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Argh, why not David Hayter?! It would've been amazing. And he has a good record too, like Watchment and the first two Xmen movies.
This already sounds like a train wreck.
Fuck that guy. He could have James Cameron and Ridley Scott team up for this movie, and he'd say no.
This already sounds like a train wreck.
Fuck that guy. He could have James Cameron and Ridley Scott team up for this movie, and he'd say no.
Fast Girls is on Netflix...
Quadraphonic
Member
You do that by doing a good job on what you're given not having an unremarkable track record and then being given a holy grail of game movie opportunity.
The fucking VOICE of Solid Snake has written blockbuster screenplays that the producer of this movie has worked on.
It's a fucking obvious match made in heaven, like Patrick fucking Stewart as Professor fucking X. A MOVIE AVI ARAD FUCKING WORKED ON.
But nooooooooooooooo. You go and give it to this goober.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Broder Salsa
Banned
The writer the Mgs lore deserves
Quadraphonic
Member
Watch. Just fucking watch. Ashley Wood won't do anything for this. No movie posters. No title cards. Nothing.
The talent that made MGS what it is today has nothing to do with this.
This will be like Tomb Raider, where the character had nothing to do with the game character. Completely changed origin. Made up adventures.
You might as well have just made up a fucking new name to use.
The talent that made MGS what it is today has nothing to do with this.
This will be like Tomb Raider, where the character had nothing to do with the game character. Completely changed origin. Made up adventures.
You might as well have just made up a fucking new name to use.
Ah, well thank goodness they chose Metal Gear for that instead of literally anything else they could've created on their own.
I mean, who's going to see movies like this? Fans. What do fans want? Faithfulness. Maybe not 100%, but at least the spirit of it (see Silent Hill). So who are these adaptations for if they're in name only?
Quadraphonic
Member
No one knows what game is being adapted or if it'll be a side story or even if it'll be canon.