{"id":18771,"date":"2026-04-10T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-metal-gear-solid-movie-is-back-on-with-final-destination-bloodlines-directors-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:01:06","slug":"the-metal-gear-solid-movie-is-back-on-with-final-destination-bloodlines-directors-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/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":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">A film adaptation of <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> is in the works again, this time from filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the directors of <em>Final Destination: Bloodlines<\/em>, according to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><em>.<\/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&rsquo;s been multiple decades of work to turn the blockbuster stealth game into a blockbuster film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;Metal Gear Solid was nothing short of a groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece that forever revolutionized video games,&rdquo; Lipovsky and Stein said in a statement. &ldquo;We are thrilled and honored to bring Hideo Kojima&rsquo;s iconic characters and unforgettable world to life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Lipovsky and Stein&rsquo;s horror bona fides helped make <em>Bloodlines<\/em> a critical and commercial hit 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 <em>Gremlins<\/em> for Warner Bros. and an animated Venom movie for Sony. It remains to be seen how exactly the duo will translate <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em>&lsquo;s unique quirks to film, though.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_cd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_kd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><em>Metal Gear Solid <\/em>is heavily indebted to director Hideo Kojima&rsquo;s own taste in action and spy cinema, while also being in conversation with video games themselves in a way that wouldn&rsquo;t naturally translate to film. And even if you removed those metatextual rough edges, can it really be <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> without Kojima&rsquo;s equal parts charming and awkward writing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Attempts to create a film version of the game date back to 2006, when Kojima first shared that an adaptation was in the works. Columbia Pictures announced a new version of the film in 2012, with Avi Arad, former head of Marvel Studios, producing. In 2014, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director of <em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em>, was attached to direct that adaptation. And six years after that, Oscar Isaac was reportedly cast as Solid Snake. 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 <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> is likely dead. Still, hope springs eternal that we&rsquo;ll get to see a man hide in a cardboard box on the big screen someday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>The Metal Gear Solid movie is back on, with Final Destination: Bloodlines directors in charge<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-metal-gear-solid-movie-is-back-on-with-final-destination-bloodlines-directors-in-charge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Metal Gear Solid movie is back on, with Final Destination: Bloodlines directors in charge&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}