“Metal Gear Solid” Getting An Animated Series?

“Kong: Skull Island” and “The Kings of Summer” helmer Jordan Vogt-Roberts recently discussed the struggles he has had trying to adapt the popular video game “Metal Gear Solid” to film.

The long-gestating project has been in the works for nearly fifteen years in one form or another. Whilst speaking with “Gary Whitta’s Animal Talking show” on Twitch TV, Vogt-Roberts revealed that he’s branched out and is working on something related:

“”[I’m] trying to get an animated series going that brings back David Hayter, that brings back the original voice cast, and doing that in tandem [with the MGS movie].”

Hayter has not voiced the video game character in an official capacity since “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker” a decade ago, he was replaced with “24” star Kiefer Sutherland in “Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain”.

Vogt-Roberts says the animated series he has in mind will run “in tandem” with the Metal Gear Solid movie, and says he hasn’t given up hope of bringing Hideo Kojima’s seminal game series to film:

“I’ve been on that movie for six years and I’ve been fighting every single day to make sure that we translate that movie properly. This is my baby. I’ve been working on this thing for six years, trying to make it so it is the disruptive, punk-rock, true to Metal Gear, true to Kojima-san spirit version of what this is and I will continue to fight for it every day.

It’s a difficult thing. Getting any movie made in Hollywood is hard. Getting something like Metal Gear made where it is so complex is even harder. That’s why I’m trying to make it for a budget where you can do crazy s–t, where you can do the Metal Gear version of it, where it isn’t neutered.”

The game series has you playing a special forces operative assigned to find the “Metal Gear” superweapon – a bipedal walking tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons. The game series is famous for its complicated and rich narrative with each new entry jumping around to different points in the timeline.

Source: Games Radar

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