Kong director wants to aim for Metroid after Metal Gear Solid. - Sensationalist Headlines

Jordan Vogt-Roberts talked a little bit today about the creation of the Metal Gear Solid movie, which he intends to direct, but he already has his eyes toward another video game franchise: Metroid. In an interview with IGN, Voght-Roberts talked about wanting to do the sci-fi franchise justice and his ideas for what the movie could be. “I have a pitch for a Metroid movie," Voght-Roberts said. "They’ll never let me. It’s too crazy. It legitimately would be [Samus] alone. It would be a little bit of her talking to herself. As soon as they introduce other talking characters in those games, to me it loses everything. You put her alone and it’s almost got more to do with the silence of a movie like Drive. Like the quietness. and having it be like a real, intense mood piece, but mixed with sci-fi.” Voght-Roberts talked a bit about how Super Metroid influenced him and his filmmaking style. It seems unlikely Nintendo would ever go for it, but considering that the studio that made Minions is making a Super Mario movie, stranger things have happened. Who would be your ideal director for a Metroid movie? https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/07/16/kong-skull-island-director-wants-to-take-on-metroid-after-metal-gear-solid

jordan is a shitty director and shouldnt be in charge of any project, let alone metal gear or metroid. i dont know why Hideo went with him for the MGS movie

Can you elaborate? What is it that makes him a shitty director? If you are referring to Kong, most of the problems lie within the script.

i was gonna straight up say, fuck off there doesn't need to be a metroid movie but this guy totally gets it “I have a pitch for a Metroid movie," Voght-Roberts said. "They’ll never let me. It’s too crazy. It legitimately would be [Samus] alone. It would be a little bit of her talking to herself. As soon as they introduce other talking characters in those games, to me it loses everything. You put her alone and it’s almost got more to do with the silence of a movie like Drive. Like the quietness. And having it be like a real, intense mood piece, but mixed with sci-fi.”

I don't think the movie needs to be made, but I'm glad at least that the guy who wants to make it knows what it should be like.

Poor pacing, extremely poor use of characters (what the fuck was the chinese womans role other than saying 3 things in the entire film oh wait making the movie a hit in China). the scene of the helicopters flying over and bombing shit looked like something a pre-teen who caught a glimpse of The Plutoon would make. oh and we don't need more big thing smash big thing movies. it is such an extremely safe and by the numbers movie. we've seen movies like this a million times before and apparently people never get tired of watching the same-new movie over and over.

I dunno, the concept art for the Metal Gear movie looks legit awful.

The last attempt at a Metroid film fell through when Nintendo couldn't or didn't want to speculate on Samus's personality and history good thing they never made a game where they put samus's personality at the forefront and everyone hated what they made her. im glad after not having a metroid game since metroid prime 3 they went back to making the series with samus returns returns

What's awful about this? https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109887/a9a9fa47-8bad-4575-9bca-ad7aa8eea955/image.png

Why is Grey Fox fighting a Gecko?

Who knows. Maybe they brought him back again.

I'll say he has the right mind on what a Metroid movie should be, but to be honest I'll just rather play a new Metroid game than seeing a movie.

Doing an adaptation of Metal Gear 1 would probably be the best bet considering how it's story is pretty barebones and can be expanded easily without hurting anything. Hell, even merging MG1&2 into one movie would be better than to just adapt MGS1 straight away because, despite what a lot of fans who started the series with the newer games like to say, MGS1 relies heavily on the events of MG2 and has a ton of callbacks and references to that game. Grey Fox especially is basically just a nothing character in MGS1 if you haven't seen his character development in MG2, pretty much every interaction with him on Codec is a massive callback to MG2. Having Grey Fox show up as a cyborg ninja straight away and having Liquid walking around talking about Big Boss without establishing who those characters actually are and what their ideologies where is absolutely necessary for the story of MGS1 to even work.

Fuck it, just give him a blank check. Whatever happens, it'll at least be better than Other M.

OR they could just make it about Senator Armstrong.

Concept art is just a production tool, not illustration. I can be anything from a clean render for modelers to dirty scribbles on a post-it, if it conveys the right idea to the production artists and technicians then it's concept art. Clean illustrations are a waste of time in preproduction, giving design solutions to the teams is its entire purpose. I'm not sure why he'd release concept art before the movie comes out though, that's unusual. Doesnt sell a movie as well than promo art or a clean trailer and we don't have the narrative context behind them. Other than that, watching this guy's interview, he seems like a huge MGS fan and does seem to get it. He had all of his writers to play all MGS games, for instance. And is a close friend of Kojima. We're kind of a shitty reboot/movie adaptation world so I get why people are nervous, but I'm really willing to give this a chance. It's certainely a passion project for him, and he does know the source material well, unlike almost any director who adapted popular games/anime to hollywood.

I follow Kojima on Twitter and I very frequently see him and Vogt-Roberts getting coffee, usually with Kojima claiming that they're discussing the MGS movie. I really feel like he gets MGS, for lack of a better word. He has a ton of respect for the games and he seems to know them backwards and front. I have high hopes.

Metroid is my most beloved series, bar none. Joardan seems to have a legit understanding of why troid works. If there isn't too much exec fuckery, it could be good.

Would MGS even work as a movie though? The franchise is known for a silly amount of cutscenes, but under the exposition I feel there was always a good amount of interactivity, and a lot of effort put in so that the player is Snake, rather than just controlling Snake. Just as an example, the fire button is remapped from square to R1 in the final scene of MGS3, really making the player pull the trigger rather than just telling Snake to pull the trigger. I get that Kojima has always wanted to make a movie, but there just isn't a way for a movie to make the viewer be the main character.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/189448/6235ad91-21a8-44d2-a087-b98bc242ff1c/image.jpeg Because Cannibal Holocaust references scream “safe and by the numbers”

I thought the new Kong movie was fun. I'm not going to the theaters expecting a masterpiece, I go to see cool shit. I loved the shit out of the new movie because it did what it set out to do, which was show a giant gorilla fight giant monsters on an island full of creepy beasts. Same with Metal Gear and Metroid. We like to think those properties are deep, but at the end of the day it's about a dude fighting walking tanks and a bounty hunter fighting space monsters.

98% of the time movies made from games fucking suck because they don't give a rat's ass about the source material, so it's actually pretty reassuring that he apparently likes MGS at more than a surface level and meets with the real father of MGS, not just the copyright holders. It would never work because there's too much backstory, but an MGS movie about Big Boss and the events after Ground Zeroes and leading up to and including Metal Gear 1 would be great for fans. Big Boss is one of the most interesting "fallen hero" type characters in video games.

After The Phantom Pain failed to actually close the missing link in the series, I'd welcome an Outer Heaven story, but I don't know how they could really do that. Something about Solid Snake and Philanthropy between MGS1 and MGS2 might be neat too.

The problem with giving a movie about the missing link a legitimate shot is there's just too much backstory. They would either have to muck up the story significantly to reduce the importance of any backstory (thus defeating the purpose of such a movie entirely), or just rely on existing MGS fans to make the movie a success, which is way too big of a risk. The only alternative I could see is making a series or a trilogy out of Big Boss's story. Movie 1 could be focused on MGS3, movie 2 could be Peace Walker, then movie 3 could be the missing link. That'd actually work out pretty well at least in terms of story, actually.

yeah look at that CGI body on a CGI bamboostick without a single speck of blood on it.