Metal Gear Solid movie could be mature

The director of Kong: Skull Island has been talking about how the success of Logan and Deadpool could help the Metal Gear movie.

The idea of a Metal Gear Solid movie has kicking around for decades, but it seems it’s more likely now than ever. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has been attached to the project for a while, but now that he’s finished work on Kong: Skull Island it seems Metal Gear is starting to get his full attention.

‘Metal Gear Solid is probably the most important franchise to me on the planet. It is such a genius, idiosyncratic work and being able to spend time with [Hideo] Kojima recently has been like a dream. He’s the best and his whole team is the best’, Vogt-Roberts told Collider.

‘We are working on the script. That is a property that I will fight tooth and nail to make sure is done properly because it’s so easy to screw it up and so easy for a studio to try and make it into G.I. Joe or try and make it into Mission: Impossible or try and make it into something that it’s not. Metal Gear Solid needs to be exactly what it needs to be, which is Metal Gear Solid.’

Vogt-Roberts also spoke about how the franchise is unique in that all the major entries have been written and directed by just one person: Hideo Kojma.

The obvious problems here though is that Hideo Kojima no longer works at Konami, and considering how acrimonious his departure was it’s highly unlikely they’d let him have anything to with the series, or the movie, ever again.

Also discussed was what age-rating the film would be aiming at, with Vogt-Roberts hinting that it could be an R in the US. That’s the highest commercially viable rating possible, roughly equivalent to an 18 in the UK (although R-rated films do often end up as 15-rated over here).

‘I think that for me, I want to make the version of the movie that is most true to what it needs to be, so if that is a Deadpool or Logan route where you go with a smaller budget and you’re able to make it R, great. If you need to blow it out more and really get that bigger budget and go PG-13, I think it could exist in both avenues.’

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/metal-gear-solid-movie-could-be-mature-rated-says-director-6464091/