7 Video Games With Enormous Hollywood Movie Potential

Arguably closer to a movie than a game already, Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid franchise took the cinematic gaming experience to another level upon its release on the original Playstation.

As a self confessed cinephile, Kojima injected the franchise with countless references to his favourite films with main hero Solid Snake himself being named after Snake Pliskin of Escape From New York Fame. Although the series has progressively gotten weirder with each entry, Metal Gear Solid certainly has the backbone of an excellent and relevant blockbuster. Yes, there was a psychic arm in the series but thats one crazy notion we can pretend never happened.

That aside, the series deals with the morality of cloning, unmanned assault drones and the destabilization of nations prior to them ever making newspaper headlines. The cloned son of a famed war hero/villain, Solid Snake is tasked with infiltrating a military weapons facility and extract high profile hostages before realising the attack is led by his brother and a team of genetically enhanced soldiers called FOXHOUND. The family drama is the tip of the iceberg in comparison to Snake having to deal with psychic masochists and cyborg ninjas amongst other insane villains.

The series is comprised of iconic imagery and a pulse pounding score by Hollywood veteran Harry Gregson Williams. If a director could find a way to merge the real world political questions with the zanier aspects of the series this would be a sure fire hit and franchise starter.

And yes, we'd get a Cyborg Ninja.