Oscar Isaac to star as Solid Snake in "Metal Gear Solid" movie.

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EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s long awaited Metal Gear Solid adaptation looks to have gained some major momentum as sources tell Deadline that Oscar Isaac is attached to play Solid Snake in the Jordan Vogt-Roberts film.

The movie is currently in development at Sony Pictures with Vogt-Roberts on board to direct. The film is based on the Metal Gear Solid video game created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. The script is written by Derek Connolly. Avi Arad is producing. Peter Kang is the executive overseeing for the studio.

The game was first launched on PlayStation in 1987 and follows Snake, a soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from Foxhound, a renegade special forces unit. The game has received acclaimed on many fronts but its story telling that has a cinematic feeling always made it seem like a movie adaptation was inevitable.

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Isaac is a fine choice for this, but my concern is the writing. The MGS series has always been a cerebral, narrative heavy series with deep writing and thematic exploration.

This franchise would honestly work much better as a Netflix series rather than a movie. There's just so much from the story that would need to be cut in order to fit this into even a 150 minute film.

Edit - If you're not familiar with the games, watch this and you'll get an idea of what the writing and themes are like in this franchise.