"Metal Gear Solid" Movie, Moves Forward With New Screenwriter

A "Metal Gear Solid" Movie, has been in On-Again, Off-Again Development for Most of the Past Decade. Currently it’s in “On” Mode, with Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kings of Summer) Attached to Direct for Sony Pictures and Now, it’s Even Making Some Forward Progress. Jay Basu has just been Set to Write the Script, Based on the Konami VideoGame Series Created by Hideo Kojima. Learn More about the "Metal Gear Solid" Screenwriter after the jump.


Deadline Reports Basu has Closed his Deal with Sony Pictures. Avi Arad is Producing the Project and Michael De Luca is Overseeing for Sony. We’ve been Tracking the Progress of the "Metal Gear Solid" Movie since it was 1st Announced around 2007. After an Initial Flurry of Interest, Development Stalled Out around 2010. Arad Started to Get it Back on Track around 2012 and Last Year the Project Took a Big Step Forward as Vogt-Roberts Entered Talks to Direct. The Original Metal Gear was Released in 1987. But, it was the 3rd Game, 1998’s Metal Gear Solid, that Launched the Franchise into Superstardom.


The Story Revolves around 'Solid Snake', a Soldier Who Infiltrates a Nuclear Weapons Facility, to Stop the Special Forces Unit, FOXHOUND, from Launching a Nuclear Strike. That’s the Simple Version of the Story but, it’s just the Tip of the Iceberg. "Metal Gear Solid" Features a Dense Web of Alliances, Conspiracies, Rivalries and so on. Those Complications are Reportedly Part of the Reason Why Earlier Incarnations of the Film Have Stalled — but, if Basu Can Get them Sorted Out, they Might also Turn Out to be Exactly the Kind of Rich Material that Could Sustain years of Sequels and Spinoffs to Come. Basu Recently Scripted, Monsters: Dark Continent, with Tom Green, Who also Directed. That Film is Due Out Next Month in the U.S. from RADiUS-TWC. Last Year he Made the Brit List (the U.K.’s Answer to the Black List) for The Pier, which he Co-Wrote with David Bowers. Additionally, he was Tapped to Help Universal Bring its Universal Monsters Franchise to Life.




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