‘Metal Gear Solid’ Is Finally Coming To The Big Screen

The Metal Gear video games have always been quite heavily cinematic. For quite some time a live-action adaptation of the series has been in the works and after five years it seems that now the project is indeed moving forward. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has announced that the adaptation is in the works. Quite recently a journalist from Japan released a tweet that included an image from the Metal Gear Anniversary in Tokyo:

@ItCameFromJapan:

#MetalGear movie? Notice the Columbia logo on this display at the #MG25 event. @OXM @PSM3_Magazine @Pelaaja @OPM_UK http://ow.ly/i/TixK

The image shows more than one thing. First you can notice the Columbia Pictures log in it and that you can notice that it says Metal Gear Solid followed by Japanese characters that translate into “Hollywood Movie”. Avi Arad, the CEO and founder of Marvel Studios, joined Hideo Kojima onstage and announced that he will be the one producing the adaptation.

“For many years I fought to bring comics to theaters. Comic books are now the biggest genre in cinema and video games are the comics of today. We will take our time and tell the story with all the nuances, ideology, cautionary tales needed.”

Is there any release date and news further than that? No. But expect news to start popping up over the next few months.

The question we have for you, do you think it will be live action or CG? What would YOU prefer?

Source: Kotaku