Sony Making Metal Gear Movie

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There hasn't been much information on the Metal Gear Solid movie front since it was announced by Studio Kojima at last E3, other than that it was indeed underway. Now GameStop brings us news that Sony Pictures Entertainment is working on the project, straight from the mouth of the studio's Vice Chairman Yair Laundau.

"We're working with the Metal Gear guys," Landau told GameSpot following his D.I.C.E. Summit keynote in Las Vegas. "It's a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie-telling. But the question is, 'How do you translate Snake's experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?'"

The answer is 2 hours of the naked Raiden shuffle.
He also spoke to GameStop about a possible EverQuest movie from a very prolific, very unnamed director, though I doubt anything any Hollywood big shot could create could ever top the masterpiece that is Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God.

Sony Pictures making Metal Gear movie [GameSpot]

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www.kotaku.com/gaming/mgs/sony-making-metal-gear-movie-235096.php

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MGS Movie Producer, Exec Producer Named



The Hollywood Reporter is just bursting with gaming news tonight.

They're reporting today that not only is Colubmbia Pictures in negotiations to acquire the rights to adapt the game into a "futuristic spy thriller," but that the movie already has a producer and executive producer.

The exec will be, of course, Hideo Kojima himself while the producer will be Michael De Luca, who produced such movies as Zathura: A Space Adventure and the upcoming Ghost Rider movie.

Sony's Doug Belgrad and Sam Dickerman will shepherd the live-action project for the studio, working in consultation with Kojima as well as Michael De Luca Prods.' Josh Bratman, who brought the project into the company. Rick Privman of JEA will executive produce.

Belgrad praised the "Metal" property, saying it is "loaded with well-developed, intriguing characters and (is) one of the first games to ever use cinematic tools in its storytelling."

Brian Crecente

Col forging 'Metal Gear Solid' [The Hollywood Reporter]

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www.kotaku.com/gaming/metal-gear-solid/mgs-movie-producer-exec-producer-named-235564.php