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Another report on the MGS movie

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:57 pm
by 87th
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6165595.html?sid=6165595

Not anything very new, but just confirmation that everything's getting on okay. The idea of the film being so eagerly anticipated makes me think that they will make a series, with each film concentrating on a speciffic game. Not something I'd bet on, mind you.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:14 pm
by Ghaleon
Man, I read this today too -- I'd hoped this had quietly been canceled or something. I can't conceive of any scenario this will be good to a fan of the series. I hate to be a fanboy but without Kojima at the helm as at least a producer or something it'll probably do minimal justice to the name. Take the brain out and condense it into an average action flick at best.

In the meantime I'm waiting to see how fucked up the Transfomers movie is.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:37 pm
by 87th
Knowing Kojima, I don't think he'd want to be too involved in the film. He'd rather work on new games. He likes seeing his stories interpreted by other people (Kitamura on TTS, Wood on the Comic, etc.). I don't think he will have much involvement, unless the director is afraid of the backlash from fanboys.

Personally, I don't care. If it turns out to be a good film? Great! Another piece to add to one of Gaming's finest series. If it's crap? Oh, well. It doesn't affect the games. A bad MG product isn't going to make me feel differently about some of my favourite games.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:27 pm
by Henry Spencer
Yeah, but if it's following the MGS storyline closely and executes it all very well, we'll be in with a winner all right. However, if we come up with a stinker then I will wanna run the other way.

It's just really one extreme to another, I certainly won't be very happy if it's average either, I think it all rests on the director and writer the most.

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:28 pm
by 87th
The producers have been revealed-
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/sea ... =100354389
Michael De Luca (the producer) apparently worked on Zathura and Ghost Rider. I haven't seen either of them, but what I heard about them was negative.
Kojima's being credited as Executive Producer, but I still doubt he'll be very involved in the project.

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:58 pm
by Henry Spencer
De Luca is the president of production at DreamWorks Pictures! He also produced Rush Hour 2, American History X, Blade 1 and 2, Dark City and a whole host of other good films. He is actually very good, that report about the guy was awful, he's much better than just, 'Zathura' and 'Ghost Rider'. So that is actually good news to me. :smile:

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:34 pm
by Ghaleon
It's over, haha. We can just pretend it's a Splinter Cell movie with MG character names I guess.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:56 am
by OtakupunkX
Zathura was badass.

I'm not joking either. For what was supposed to be a kiddy flick it was damn good.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:37 pm
by Snake700
Zathura producer on the project? We´re fucked!

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:31 pm
by Henry Spencer
:mad:

Oy! Did you all just completely ignore my post or what? :???:

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:15 pm
by Ghaleon
Completely the opposite. "Rush Hour 2" "Zathura" and "Ghost Rider" hit me right in the nuts.

I'll give it up for Blade 1 though at least.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:22 pm
by Marc
I wish for once a VG movie would get a big-time name attached to it. And not fall through halfway (Halo). Maybe it has happened before, I dunno.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:20 pm
by Henry Spencer
I don't really think it matters until we get the name of the director. I wonde rif it is one Kojima is a fan of or not, anyway, he doesn't have any control at all, he is merely the executive producer!

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:09 pm
by Squallidus
I demand a petition for Christopher Walken to be Ocelot!

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:05 pm
by OtakupunkX
Snake700 wrote:Zathura producer on the project? We´re fucked!
Ghaleon wrote:Completely the opposite. "Rush Hour 2" "Zathura" and "Ghost Rider" hit me right in the nuts.
So, did any of you guys actually watch Zathura? It comes off as a really crappy kiddie flick if you only watch the trailer, but it's actually not bad (the kids actually acted like real kids, complete with occasional swear word and all). I'd rather watch that then, say, Finding Nemo or something like that (well, I probably wouldn't be watching movies like that at all anyway, I watched Zathura when I was home sick from school and had already watched everything else), and it was a very faithful adaptation from the source material from what I understand. Ghost Rider looks like it's going to be a faithful adaptation too, which isn't really saying much because the source material really wasn't that great, but, honestly, I think this could be in worse hands.

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:10 pm
by Henry Spencer
Yeah, the guy produced American History X! Now THAT is a powerful movie! The guy is the head of Dreamworks productions as well (along with Spielberg and someone else), so he can't be that bad!

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:11 pm
by Ghaleon
Here's a thread I started on another board: Thoughts on the perfect casting for an MG movie?

Sniper Wolf -- Scarlet Johanson (read this on SRK)
Young Ocelot -- A two-years-older-than-his-young-Indy River Phoenix
Old Ocelot -- Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
Old Snake -- Sam Elliot in The Hulk
The Boss -- Linda Hamilton in T2 all the way.
Meryl -- Rachel Leigh Cook in Josie & the Pussycats
EVA -- some random Playmate
Old Big Boss -- duh, Sean Connery.
Raiden -- Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic is a girlie boy...
Otacon (we have a dispute) -- Cary Elwes from The Princess Bride?

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:13 pm
by Henry Spencer
Eric Bana, for Solid Snake!

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:19 pm
by Squallidus
Eric Banana is a bit fat, but he'd be better than most.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:33 am
by randomwab
And MG movie would be awesome with the original inspirations, eg, Snake - Kurt Russel, Ocelot - Lee Van Cleef and such.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:51 am
by Henry Spencer
:???:

I don't know how Kurt would be Snake, he is FAR too old. I see Kurt playing Big Boss, actually, if anything.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:00 am
by OtakupunkX
Eric Bana for the win.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:50 am
by Snake700
Squallidus wrote:I demand a petition for Christopher Walken to be Ocelot!
Yeah. Why not have a petition for Keifer Sutherland, to play Solid Snake?

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:00 pm
by Henry Spencer
If anything, I would prefer Keifer as Solidus, it would definitely add a certain twist to his roles he is constantly playing as of late! Keifer's far better then that typecasting.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:42 pm
by Snake700
That would be a great idea. No wait, he chould be Liquid Snake, since the movie is based on MGS1