Overview
- Sony’s Columbia label attached directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein on Thursday as part of a new first-look deal, with Avi and Ari Arad producing the adaptation.
- The filmmakers’ Wonderlab banner will develop projects for them to direct and produce originals for other directors across Sony’s labels, alongside active titles like an animated Venom and the sci‑fi project The Earthling.
- The Metal Gear Solid film is in early development with no writer, cast, release date, or production timeline announced, and the studio materials do not mention Hideo Kojima’s involvement.
- This latest push follows more than a decade of starts and stops, including a prior version linked to director Jordan Vogt‑Roberts and reports that Oscar Isaac was eyed to star, which never went before cameras.
- Studios are leaning into game IP after recent hits, and translating Metal Gear Solid’s dense stealth‑espionage world to a feature will hinge on choices like casting Solid Snake and deciding which era of the saga to tell first.