It’s taken ages for the long-awaited Metal Gear Solid movie to finally get going, but damn, it now has one Hell of an actor to play Solid Snake. Deadline reports Oscar Isaac will play the iconic hero of the classic stealth video game franchise, in a film directed by Kong: Skull Island‘s Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
Finally winning the role he’s been campaigning for, Isaac will take on the role of Solid Snake, who in the original 1987 NES game was a soldier sent to infiltrate an enemy base and destroy the Metal Gear, a nuclear-powered tank weapon. That was followed by a couple of sequels in the 8-bit era, but it was 1998’s Metal Gear Solid that ramped up the cinematic qualities that Kojima would become famous for. It’s unclear how much Vogt-Roberts’ film will take from the game’s storyline, which finds Snake infiltrating a nuclear facility to stop the terrorist threat FOXHOUND.
In what would also become a defining/polarizing Kojima trait, the storyline is dense with multiple twists and turns that can be tough to follow.
Add this to the list of incredible pop culture roles for Isaac. Of course, we recognize him as Poe Dameron from the latest Star Wars trilogy, but he’s also set to play Duke Atreides in Dune, Moon Knight in Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series, and even the title character in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina film retitled The Great Machine.
Vogt-Roberts has been on board to direct for what seems like ages, working from a script by Jurassic World writer Derek Connolly.
As for when Isaac will have time to shoot this, who knows? He’s currently working on HBO’s Scens from a Marriage alongside Jessica Chastain, and has a making-of The Godfather film with Jake Gyllenhaal and Barry Levinson.
