{"id":1418,"date":"2026-04-10T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/the-metal-gear-solid-movie-is-back-on-with-final-destination-bloodlines-directors-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:49:14","slug":"the-metal-gear-solid-movie-is-back-on-with-final-destination-bloodlines-directors-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/the-metal-gear-solid-movie-is-back-on-with-final-destination-bloodlines-directors-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metal Gear Solid movie is back on, with Final Destination: Bloodlines directors in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid<\/em> is in the works again, this time from filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the directors of Final Destination: Bloodlines<\/em>, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> The duo are reviving the project at Columbia Pictures as part of a new first-look deal with Sony, the latest attempt in what’s been multiple decades of work to turn the blockbuster stealth game into a blockbuster film.<\/p>\n

“Metal Gear Solid was nothing short of a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that forever revolutionized video games,” Lipovsky and Stein said in a statement. “We are thrilled and honored to bring Hideo Kojima’s iconic characters and unforgettable world to life.”<\/p>\n

Lipovsky and Stein’s horror bona fides helped make Bloodlines<\/em> a critical and commercial hit<\/a> when it came out in 2025, and the directors have a variety of other IP-focused genre films in the works, including a sequel to Gremlins<\/em><\/a> for Warner Bros. and an animated Venom movie<\/a> for Sony. It remains to be seen how exactly the duo will translate Metal Gear Solid<\/em>‘s unique quirks to film, though.<\/p>\n

Metal Gear Solid <\/em>is heavily indebted to director Hideo Kojima’s own taste in action and spy cinema, while also being in conversation with video games themselves in a way that wouldn’t naturally translate to film. And even if you removed those metatextual rough edges, can it really be Metal Gear Solid<\/em> without Kojima’s equal parts charming and awkward writing<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Attempts to create a film version of the game date back to 2006, when Kojima first shared<\/a> that an adaptation was in the works. Columbia Pictures announced a new version of the film<\/a> in 2012, with Avi Arad, former head of Marvel Studios, producing. In 2014, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director of Kong: Skull Island<\/em>, was attached to direct<\/a> that adaptation. And six years after that, Oscar Isaac was reportedly cast as Solid Snake<\/a>. Arad and his son Ari Arad are still producing this latest take on the game, but with Lipovsky and Stein in charge, that older version of Metal Gear Solid<\/em> is likely dead. Still, hope springs eternal that we\u2019ll get to see a man hide in a cardboard box on the big screen someday.<\/p>\n\n

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A film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid is in the works again, this time from filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the directors of Final Destination: Bloodlines, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The duo are reviving the project at Columbia Pictures as part of a new first-look deal with Sony, the latest attempt in what’s been multiple decades of work to turn the blockbuster stealth game into a blockbuster film. “Metal Gear Solid was nothing short of a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that forever revolutionized video games,” Lipovsky and Stein said in a statement. “We are thrilled and honored to bring Hideo Kojima’s iconic characters and unforgettable world to life.” Lipovsky and Stein’s horror bona fides helped make Bloodlines a critical and commercial hit when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}