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Originally Posted by Karmillo
I think your a stupid idea man!
Think about it, whats the point of turning a book into a movie? theres no guarentee that the movie is going to follow the image that everyone has in their heads so why bother?
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Wow that's backwards. The reason to make a movie out of a book is precisely
because it is not like the book. If it merely echoes the book, there's no point because it's redundant. But a movie is not like a book- a movie brings a lot of potential which books do not have. The purpose of adapting a book to a movie is to find that potential which could not previously have been used. Conversely, the purpose of a novelization of a movie is to utilize the advantages that books have over film.
The problem with a MGS movie is not that it is too different from the game- it is that it would be too similar! Fully a third of a MGS game is pure film. So the act of moving the MGS story to the format of film is not exactly a revelation. The potential of the movie format is
already being utilized, as part of the original MGS! So what potential is there to be gained by moving the story into theaters? None! However, there is much potential lost- In addition to the advantages of film, the MGS games also make use of the advantages of stealth and audio drama. Those features are now lost. So what you're getting here is a stripped-down version of MGS, which can't
hope to do anything more than poorly imitate the games. What is the point of that?
