Metal Gear Solid Movie Gets Monsters: Dark Continent Screenwriter

I don't know what's going on with Deadline's latest story about the Metal Gear Solid movie but there are a couple of odd glitches. First of all, the URL also mentions Ruairi Robinson's Leviathan and the X-Men despite them having nothing to do with the content at all. Secondly, it ends by telling us that Monsters: Dark Continent is currently in post production when, actually, it premiered at the London film festival something like five months ago. Here's hoping they managed to not screw up with the main thrust of the story, which is simple enough: Jay Basu will write the script for the Metal Gear Solid film. Basu scripted Dark Continent, which is in US cinemas in couple of weeks then UK cinemas in early May, which makes the timing of this new announcement pretty much spot-on. I don't think Basu will have to work hard to provide better dialogue than the Metal Gear games. I've still got dreadful clunkers like "It's easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield" and "The raven on my head, it thirsts for his blood" rattling around in my ears. It's one of the most dependably pretentious game series, and also one of the most unwittingly hilarious. The director for the Metal Gear movie is Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who will be off to Skull Island in the meantime. Plenty of space, then, for Basu to get his Solid Snake straight. So to speak. Metal Gear Solid has no release date yet but it seems to be on course for 2017 or '18 if these new details are to be believed. Be patient.