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    http://www.gamespot.com/news/6165595.html

    Sony Pictures making Metal Gear movie

    At the Electronic Entertainment Expo last year, Konami revealed that work had begun on a live-action movie based on Metal Gear Solid. The news broke via a pamphlet for Studio Kojima, the Konami-owned development house headed up by Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima.

    "I have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a long time, but we have finally settled on an arrangement," Kojima said in a statement. "False facts aside, a movie project is underway. I have finalized a Class-A contract with a party in Hollywood."

    For eight months, the identity of the aforementioned "party" was unknown. That changed this week, when Sony Pictures Entertainment vice chairman Yair Landau revealed his studio is developing the project.

    "We're working with the Metal Gear guys," Landau told GameSpot following his D.I.C.E. summit keynote address in Las Vegas. "It's a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie telling. But the question is, 'How do you translate Snake's experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?'"

    Landau also hinted the Metal Gear Solid movie may just be the beginning. "There are other games we are looking to develop," the executive said. "We're working with one of my favorite producers right now on an idea for an EverQuest movie." The producer was apparently of such stature that Landau declined to name him. "I'll let him disclose that," he said cryptically.

    Besides the forthcoming World of Warcraft film, currently in development at Warner Bros., the Metal Gear Solid movie is the highest-profile game-film project in Hollywood. Previously, that stature was held by the Peter Jackson-produced Halo adaptation, which imploded last year.

    [uPDATE] On Friday, news of Sony's involvement surfaced in the Hollywood trades, which gave further details on the deal. According to The Hollywood Reporter, former New Line Cinema chief Michael De Luca is in talks to produce the project, with Kojima himself being named as executive producer.

    Sony executives Sam Dickerman and Doug Belgrad are in charge of finalizing the deal to acquire the Metal Gear Solid film rights, which is apparently close to completion. Belgrad hailed the Metal Gear IP as "loaded with well-developed, intriguing characters and one of the first games to ever use cinematic tools in its storytelling."

    I remember hearing about this a while ago, but it looks like the movie is going to actually happen..

    What actor do you think should play Solid Snake? ;) and do you think they might turn Snake into the new series of movies like James Bond?

    *imagines Orlando Bloom being cast as Snake and riots around the world breaking out*

    Off Topic:

    Theres going to be a WoW movie too?

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    I've had 3 vertigo spells in the past two days. O_O; wtf... its like reality shifts and my vision slips for a brief second and I feel like throwing up..

    For once my winter has been mild as far as colds go. I've had two but they were both mild and over quickly.

    Of course by posting this I'm guaranteeing myself a bastard of a cold now. *knocks wood*

    Take some multivitamins. ^_^

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    Mini Merry 2!!! :D awesome! :D

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    and now we know how they'll get to the underwater merman island.. mini sub! :happy: and the waver looks like it might be used again after all this time.

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    Damn, I never thought Franky would have made them mini vessels. Thats too cool. ^_^

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    hmm.. with the latest chapter, Luffy looks determined to bring back his new nakama. Considering how Luffy usually does exactly as he says when it comes to nakama, I'm pretty much convinced he'll get that skeleton bastard on the crew now. X'D

    oh, and it looked like the skeleton has been wanting to get on that island for a while, maybe he can get revenge on that shadow theif in there?

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    http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157085

    Last week we highlighted an interview Cubed3 conducted with Hiromichi Tanaka, Square Enix Senior VP, where he seemed pretty dismissive when the topic of a remake of Chrono Trigger came up. Today, however, we have access to the complete full transcription of the interview up, which reveals a tone a little different.

    With regards to a Chrono Trigger remake:

    "There's still a possibility, but since the main director is not working for Square Enix now -- he's working on other titles in a different company, Namco Bandai, it's a bit difficult to ask him to come back and be the head of a team again. And also, Kato-san is working on the fourth game in the Mana series. So there's still a possibility that he might think he might want to make it again..."

    There's still a possibility.

    I'd love to see a Chrono Trigger remake. :D

    *still owns the original Super NES and PS1 versions*

    Any other Chrono fans? ^_^

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    Heres the only news I heard about a season 2 for Berserk:

    http://www.ancientclan.com/content/view/89/85/

    unfortunately that is now 2 years old. So I would assume the idea of a second season is pretty dead.. but then again the manga did just resume after four months. Maybe another season will still happen someday. They could re-release the original series remastered on hd-dvd or blue-ray and then bust out with season 2.

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    I love this series. :)

    wow I had no clue it was this good. I always thought it started out with Brandon as the crazy old guy with the hat. It was so worth the time to watch. I love the episode where Brandon kills Cid and right after bows to Bear and walks away. That was crazy.

    That episode was great.

    The character development was so good.. and to think Brandon started off as some street punk. He was a badass sweeper. Killing all those people while dressed in his best. :cool:

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    http://www.square-enix.com/na/company/press/2007/0125/

    This reminds me of another post I made about FF12:

    I think the developers spent all their time and money on the battle system, gambit ai, monster interactions and the entire environment instead of putting money into a solid script. To me, it was if the whole purpose of FF12 was to make people get used to a real time battle system/mmorpg environment so they could maybe hook more fans onto FF11.

    I don't understand why every FF has to have a completely different battle system. Back in the day every FF battle system had the same primary elements, enemies separated on one side, your guys on the other. and they kept improving on it all the way up to FFX where it hit the limit of what that battle system can do.. I still think they could have kept the same battle system from FFX and made multiple final fantasy games based off of it's style. They would have more money for plot development, etc instead of pumping cash into programming and designing an entirely new system and the games would have probably sold like hot cakes.

    I wonder if they'll use the unreal engine for a new final fantasy or possibly a kingdom hearts game. Imagine playing KH powered by the unreal engine. O_O what a difference that would be..

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