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News Briefs: More KINGSMAN; Sony Casts METAL GEAR SOLID; Mads’s RIDERS OF JUSTICE For Magnet; Kitano Biopic ASAKUSA KID Gets New Life

If director Matthew Vaughn gets his way, the Kingsman franchise will have at least seven more films as well as a TV series on its slate. The franchise is adapted from a graphic novel about a clandestined organization of affluent, gentleman superspies, with the latest, The King’s Man, set to open in February. “We want to grow the business and the output,” said Marv Group CEO Zygi Kamasa to the Winston Baker UK Finance Summit late last week. “We have a Kingsman TV series in the works and there are two-three other franchises that are being developed alongside the Kingsman world.” (Andreas Wiseman, Deadline) Six years after its announcement, Sony Pictures’s Metal Gear Solid movie has officially landed Star Wars franchise actor and upcoming Dune star Oscar Isaac for the role of Solid Snake. The live-action video game adapatation is based on the hit 1987 IP that first launched at […]

JAY BASU To Script METAL GEAR SOLID For Sony

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The Pier scribe, Jay Basu has become a studio favorite as of late, having recently been tapped to help pen a flurry of writings including Universal Pictures’s currently-developing cinematic monsterverse following Dracula Untold, and an adaptation of Julie Kagawa’s fantasy action novel series, Talon, last year. Hopefully he’s had some time to breathe in between, because now it appears that Sony Pictures is following suit with their own forthcoming adaptation of the popular Playstation favorite, Metal Gear Solid, according to Deadline. The live action film was originally announced by game director Kojima Hideo prior to a series of false starts. Initially released on several Playstation platforms in 1998 courtesy of Konami with more games that followed, Metal Gear Solid tells the story of Snake, a soldier on a stealth mission to rescue two hostages and neutralize a nuclear threat from renegade special forces unit, Foxhound. Avi and Ari Arad are […]

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METAL GEAR SOLID Is Getting A Live-Action Film, And Now Has A Director

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Video game movies are still a thing, and Sony is jumping on the bandwagon this week, this time with the attachment of The Kings Of Summer helmer, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts for a live action adaptation of Metal Gear Solid. The film has reportedly been in the works since game director Hideo Kojima’s initial announcement in 2006 and saw a series of ups and downs with several names otherwise rumored for the project, including voice actor, multifaceted filmmaker David Hayter said to be writing the script before those rumors were quelled. Initially released on several Playstation platforms in 1998 courtesy of Konami with more games that followed, Metal Gear Solid tells the story of Snake, a soldier on a stealth mission to rescue two hostages and neutralize a nuclear threat from renegade special forces unit, Foxhound. Avi Arad is producing the film with Michael DeLuca steering the production. The big question […]