Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation receives new directors after two decades in limbo

After two decades of attempts to get production underway, Sony’s movie adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid appears to be moving forward again with new directors and a production deal.

The details:

• According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures has signed Canadian filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein to direct a movie adaptation of Konami's Metal Gear Solid for its Columbia Pictures label, as part of a deal that will see their new company Wonderlab develop several upcoming film projects.
• The Metal Gear Solid movie will now be produced by Avi Arad, who has worked with Sony and Marvel in the past on the live-action Spider-Man films and Spider-Verse animated movies, as well as the company’s upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda project.
• Attempts to create a film based on Metal Gear Solid date back to at least 2006, when Kojima revealed at E3 that he had negotiated a contract with a Hollywood studio. However, the project eventually stalled and rotated through several directors and producers, with one version directed by Kong: Skull Island filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts having fallen apart amid Kojima’s controversial departure from MGS owner Konami in 2015.