'Metal Gear Solid' Movie Adaptation Eyes 'Kings Of Summer' Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts

According to a number of reports, Sony is getting a Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation and Kings of Summer director Jordan Vogt-Roberts is apparently in early talks with the studio to helm the project. The popular gaming franchise is finally coming to the big screen but is a director known for a coming-of-age youthful tale the right person to take on this action movie?

Another big story in video game adaptation broke this week when Doug Liman opened up about his new movie Splinter Cell starring Tom Hardy. You can read more on that HERE!

But back to Metal Gear Solid - Vogt-Roberts is definitely an interesting choice, but since Sony has been wanting to make this for so long the company wouldn't pick just anybody to direct, right?

Deadline reports:

This is a long-gestating project because it just took so long for the game creators and the studio to find themselves on the same page in how to tell the story of protagonist Solid Snake. Created by Hideo Kojima, the game has been around on PlayStation since 1998.

Here is the official synopsis of the video game:

During a training mission in February 2005 on Shadow Moses Island, a remote island off the coast of Alaska containing a nuclear weapons facility, FOXHOUND and the Next-Generation Special Forces rebelled against the United States Government, under the command of Liquid Snake. Their target was the advanced weapon system Metal Gear REX, a gigantic robotic weapons platform able to independently launch a nuclear warhead at any target on the face of the planet. Their demand was the body of the greatest soldier who ever lived, Big Boss, which, through gene therapy, they could use to create an army of ultimate soldiers. With the safety of the entire world at stake, at the request of the Secretary of Defense, Colonel Roy Campbell, the former commander of FOXHOUND, summoned Solid Snake out of retirement for one last solo covert operation to stop Liquid.