Random: Hideo Kojima Finds His Ideal Live-Action Solid Snake

Apparently, many people noticed the resemblance immediately. Being a long time MGS enjoyer, somehow, I didn't. I can definitely see it now, though.

Yeah i can see Tom Burke as Snake. But, i thought MGS movie was completely cancelled? There's no news about the movie anymore for 4 years since Oscar Isaac was reported to played as Solid Snake back in 2020.

@PuppetMaster

Yeah it's existence is in question now, and tbh I was excited for Oscar and the Skull Island director to get a shot at it, but I also think shrinking the budget and using this guy along with some inspired script would be very interesting too. It doesn't need to be a block buster, so giving more room for it ro break even by containing it mostly in Shadow Moses would be very interesting

OK we get it PS. Miller threw shade at avalanche and this is the third article in as many days about kojima,miller and mad max that's reported on it. You don't need to mention it everytime you print an article surrounding them. I'm not so sure kojima would be a good fit for a mad max game personally as he's always trying to be the David lynch of video games (in my opinion) and his themes are always way out there and hard to understand exactly what he's trying to portray..death stranding? Looks amazing and sounds amazing but wtf is it about? Mad max is very simple and there is nothing that requires a massive amount of in depth thinking to understand and I'm not saying that it's an unintelligent franchise either..its just a very simple premise and hits hard (apart from mad max 3 which was for snowflakes before there were snowflakes.) Stick to reporting on games and not muck raking please.

@Northern_munkey he's been mostly alienating his audiences since mgs 4 with one brain fart after the next. Gameplay wise mgs v was fantastic, but the single-take cut scenes had such cheesy cinematography and the story was super messy. Death stranding just underlined his creative downward trend. Again gameplay wise it was fine, but the story was just plain bad.
That's what you get when you glorify a single man and write him a blank cheque... pretty looking brain farts.

@Northern_munkey the irony of it all is that despite being such a movie buff he probably wouldn't make a good movie. He doesn't value some core movie rules in his own work like "show, don't tell", brevity and tight editing.

@tameshiyaku I want to make this absolutely clear. I am not saying kojima makes bad games or that he knows nothing about movies or pop culture etc. He has his fanbase and is a highly successful and very talented game creator. I personally just find his story telling rather convoluted and complicated. I liked the metal gear franchise and I found some of the characters very interesting along with the lore behind the games but death stranding? Hurt my brain cell.

@Northern_munkey saying the same. Mgs 1-3 and peace walker are the games that got me into gaming in the first place, they still had comprehensible plots. Every game since then has also been great from a gameplay perspective (even the "walking simulator" aspect of death stranding I found very inventive and fun), however overindulgent in its storytelling, which is a shame since I did like the stories in the past.

Weird, Kojima misspelled Norman Reedus

@Arminillo I agreed that the movie should be in smaller scale. I heard the rumor that years ago Sony wants to funded the movie but with budget around $40 million or lower. But Konami / Kojima thinks the budget should be bigger like a summer blockbuster movie. Maybe that's one of the reason why MGS movie is still in the limbo for years cause no movie studio wants to spend more than $100+ million for a video game to movie adaptation that doesn't guarantee to break even or make profits...

Funnily. Death Stranding movie adaptation will be co-developed by A24 and Hammerstone Studio which are small / mid studios. Maybe Kojima realized asking for tons of money for his video games adaptation isn't a good idea to attract investor haha.

@Northern_munkey "his themes are always way out there and hard to understand exactly what he's trying to portray..death stranding? Looks amazing and sounds amazing but wtf is it about?"

I thought Death Stranding is Kojima game with the easiest main story / theme to understand. All the game promotion that was shoutout over and over about "the importance of forging human connection" or "making a bond with other people" is the core theme. And the players also did that a lot in the gameplay by delivering goods and co-operate on building networks to connect one area to another. Human depends on each other cause no human can live by themself. There's also another theme like death, reincarnation, and human extinction. But the game gave some enough explanation or lore dump about these themes while let the players decide if they have their own interpretation.

I personally think Kojima's games are easier to understand compare to Kingdom Hearts, Xenogears / Xenosaga, or Chrono Cross.

@PuppetMaster I've never played the games you mentioned so I'm not going to even try and compare them. I'm glad you managed to understand death stranding as it lost me just after I fell asleep watching my brother play it..each to their own.

@Northern_munkey I don't think Death Stranding fit as a game to spectate / watch only but more as a game to play by yourself to understand the experiences.

Although, i still reccomend you to play one of those games. Maybe Xenogears where you will definitely gonna scratch your head a lot, trying to understand the story when you see multiple religious references (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc), multiple timeline span for thousands of years, mixed with philosophies from Nietzche / Jung / Sigmund Freud on top of some crazy sci-fi story of "killing god with a machine" hahaha xD

@PuppetMaster sounds like the sort of game Robert anton Wilson would conjure up 🤣

It doesn’t take much to resemble Snake, Burke has been acting for a while now, I could tell he’d be a fun Solid Snake since Musketeers.

Personally, I’d prefer an actor who’s not entering their later years and does most of their own stunts. But he’d be a great Old Snake.

Any movie that’s backed by Kojima, likely won’t be greenlit. This is a dude who went overbudget on an LA mo-cap studio and it had to be sold off within the year since he used it for nothing.

An MGS movie would be over budget, too long, and have loads of Monster energy drink cans littered everywhere. Oh and Keighley would have a role with a few lines for some reason.

I’d love to see a Solid Snake performance but Kojima and Konami would have to make amends for that movie to reach its potential. Despite what others say about Kojima, the man has his status for a reason and continues to make some of the best games out there. DS was brilliant if you played it.

Hope to God Amazon don't pick it up for a series and turn it into a dog's dinner

For me, the best actor would be Michael Fassbender. He looks like Solid, and would do an awesome Liquid as well. They really should consider the man.

@PuppetMaster i'd say the odds are slightly higher than the akira live action adpataion which has been in limbo and production hell for well over 30 years at this point.

@Porco It's just weird that we got One Piece live action tv series and the quality was pretty good + on point with the manga. But Akira live action movie in limbo for 30+ years sounds like an impossible task that no movie makers can do...

@PuppetMaster yea. one piece's immense popularity likely gave the producers enough confidence to take a chance on it. akira, while legendary in its own right, doesn't have the same mainstream appeal and is perceived as a significantly higher risk project. to be honest, it deserves more than a single movie to adequately adapt it. perhaps two. or better yet, an 8 episode mini series. but even if it never happens, it might be for the best with the track record of hollywood adaptations being what it is.

A good actor.
Saw the new Furiosa movie a few days ago.

I recognised Tom Burke, but the only thing I can recall seeing him acting in before was the BBC Series “The Musketeers”.

Film is very good, but naturally Chris Hemsworth steals the show. Just more through the nature of his character being totally unrestrained and over-the-top.