Oscar Issac as Solid Snake!

[Apoho Creed]

Oscar Isaac officially set for 'Metal Gear Solid' movie as Solid Snake

Oscar Isaac floated his interest in the Solid Snake role last year. Now, the 'Star Wars' star has signed on to 'Metal Gear Solid.'

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By God, Jordan Vogt-Roberts did it. After a fan-casting movement on social media wanted Oscar Isaac for the role of Solid Snake for his long-in-development Metal Gear Solid movie, the filmmaker has officially landed the Star Wars actor for the lead role, EW has learned.

During a press junket interview for Triple Frontier in March 2019, Isaac told IGN "I'm throwing my hat in for that one" in reference to Metal Gear Solid, which is an adaptation of the popular video game series from Hideo Kojima, published by Konami. Hearing of this as word continued to spread online, Vogt-Roberts went on Twitter to quell the fan storms. "The full process required to cast an icon hasn’t even started," he tweeted, while mentioning, "The ball's in Oscar's court."

Now, it's official. Isaac is attached to star in the film from Sony Pictures, which also finished filming this year on another long-awaited videogame adaptation, Uncharted. Deadline was the first to report the news.

Derek Connolly wrote the script for Metal Gear Solid, which is produced by Avi Arad and executive produced by Peter Kang. The first game launched in 1987 and followed Snake, a soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from a renegade special forces unit known as Foxhound.

Add this to Isaac's still-growing list of roles across movies and TV. As of now, those include HBO's Scenes From a Marriage with Jessica Chastain, Marvel's Moon Knight series on Disney+, the adaptation of the Brian K. Vaughn comic Ex Machina, and a movie about the making of The Godfather. We're also still owed his "space daddy" performance in Denis Villeneuve's Dune, rescheduled for 2021.

I always though Hugh Jackman would of been perfect for this role, but Isaac getting the role is a great get. I wanna see who is going to play some of the other major roles like Liquid, Ocelot too down the road with casting.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I could really see Oscar do Solid Snake justice. I'm really hoping this is based on the first game?

The first Metal Gear Solid I should specify.

 

[Apoho Creed]

I could really see Oscar do Solid Snake justice. I'm really hoping this is based on the first game?

The first Metal Gear Solid I should specify.

I would imagine so, but I expect stuff being pulled out from the other Games as well. Come on now Hugh Jackman was old man Snake like from the last Game needs to be done or even as Big Boss aka Naked Snake going back in time he can do it I feel. My mind is going crazy trying to see who I want to see even like Gray Fox or Raiden, but one film at a time hehe.

 

[Deezy]

Metal gear had solid cinematics.....no pun intended.

Stories were well written, the characters fully fleshed out......so that means I have zero faith in Hollywood producing a film adaptation that will do any of that.....based on every video game adaptation ever done.

 

[Marty McFourth]

I think he'll do a good job, but Metal Gear is hard to pull off I think. I played the games and still don't fully understand what I played to this day. The story is weird as hell.