Metal Gear Solid Director

First news report is a big one for me. The Metal Gear Movie that may or may not happen has a director possibly. The director Jordan Vogt Roberts recently posted him something very familiar to Metal Gear fans: cue Snake yells. Roberts is mostly an independent film director, his latest work being Kings Of Summer. This would be his first big production.

However, this post does not mean he is the director. He could just be an awesome moment where we realize that movie directors play classic games and sometimes like to tweet about them? And do we even need a Metal Gear Solid movie?

No one can argue that the MGS series is not cinematic. Kojima is famous for putting in 15 minutes plus cutscenes. Heck, this video puts all the MGS4 cutscenes into a long movie. So what would be the point of making game into a movie?

The message of all MGS games is clear. War is awful. War destroys people and countries. Kills innocents and ruins families. Kojima has always found a way to make the games culturally relevant to today's society. This is found recently in Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes. Ground Zeroes takes place in a fiction American Black Site prison called Camp Omega. However, this is clearly a reference to Guantanamo Bay. If that is not clear to during the game, he even shows a timeline at the end where the last events are about Obama promising to close Gitmo and never doing it.

So what could the Metal Gear Solid movie bring to the table? Well, thanks to the rising tensions with Russia it could investigate nuclear politics and what a possible war with Russia would be. On top of this the fictional Island of Shadow Moses is experiencing global warming in the fourth game. They could pull some of that information into the movie. A movie also brings the messages to a wider audience than a game. However,  lets see if they can handle: Cyborg Ninjas, peeing scientist, clones, mechs that launch nuclear warheads, sniper wolf's sexyness, watching solider's butts in order to find your partner, and the vast amount of other strange happenings that Kojima throws into his masterpieces. Oh and Psycho Mantis interacting with the audience in some form would be cool.