Sony Pictures has been working on a Metal Gear Solid movie since 2015, though details have been relatively infrequent even half a decade later. The announcement of casting Oscar Isaac as series protagonist Solid Snake did breathe some fan interest into the project, only for more silence from the filmmakers to follow.
During a red carpet event for Moon Knight on Tuesday, Isaac told IGN that the film’s storyline is a work-in-progress.
“We’re searching, we’re searching like Solid Snake,” Isaac said. “We’re climbing through air ducts, we’re looking for the story.”
Not exactly an in-depth update, but we’ll take what we can get at this point. Watch that brief info dump from Isaac for yourself below.
Oscar Isaac, Solid Snake himself, told IGN “We’re climbing through air ducts, we’re looking for the story [of the Metal Gear Solid movie]." https://t.co/BDe0xdQ2n2 pic.twitter.com/Y7hOJieK0K
— IGN (@IGN) March 23, 2022
You’d hope some semblance of a storyline would’ve been inked by now, but alas. Metal Gear Solid is known for overly elaborate plotlines, so maybe making everything click in a different medium is holding things up.
Video game adaptations are rarely faithful (or good), but the Metal Gear Solid movie might be closer to Hideo Kojima’s games than anyone could have anticipated. Not since Metal Gear Solid 5 in 2015 has the series been active at all, aside from Metal Gear Survive, but we don’t talk about that one.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
