Metal Gear Solid-filmen er bare én af de filmatiseringer af spil der har ligget i limbo i mange år, med mange forskellige producere og instruktører tilknyttet. Med Kong: Skull Island-instruktøren Jordan Vogt-Roberts har filmen dog fundet nyt liv, og nu har den sågar fået grønt lys fra produktionsselskabet, Sony.
I et nyt interview med International Business Times fortæller Vogt-Roberts at han gav Sony et ultimatum, og på grund af hans passion, samt et marked der bedre kan akkommodere lidt anderledes, R-Ratede action-film takket være Deadpool og Logan, så sagde de ja tak.
"Fundamentally, Metal Gear is about the cycle of pain and it's about this f****d up weird family soap opera, and it's about ideologies, and it's about characters and philosophies. And it's about playing with tone and it's about so many different things. But a lot of those things are conceptual ideas.
"So I was able to go in and say, and have that moment to say, 'Here's what it needs to be, if you don't want to do this version, just say so now and let's split paths.' But with Kong being what it was in a post-Logan, Deadpool world, they all kind of said, 'Okay.' Let's make the version that I have pitched."
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