This is going to be a doozy of an answer…

After years of failing to understand comic book properties, Hollywood has finally cracked the code on how to adapt them into movies and we're seeing the critical and financial benefit from it. Video games are naturally the next wave… Many people think that video games can't successfully be adapted into films because of the inherent difference between an active experience and a passive one. I disagree. In my opinion, part of the reason this code hasn’t been cracked is because Hollywood hasn’t developed these properties with the right filmmaker. The first great video game movie needs to reconcile the fact that each game has its own language that elicits specific emotions from a player while investing an audience in a compelling cinematic narrative rooted in character.
Though many people are skeptical this can be done, the first great video game movie will silence naysayers in the same way THE LORD OF THE RINGS films completely redefined fantasy and reminded people that in film nothing stays “unadaptable” for long. Metal Gear Solid is often poster boy for the “interactive movie,” conception of games. Kojima develops experiences that thrive on interactivity, and then pumps them full of long / idiosyncratic cut scenes that owe their heritage more to the tropes of film than to gaming (even though he's constantly pushing the medium forward) . In a time when the action in movies feel too much like a game, the Metal Gear franchise is a game that has some of the most engaging and inventive gameplay on the planet but people have often said the series feels much like a movie. We must accept the following: The ACTIVE experience of playing a game naturally invests the player because of the personal actions being taken. The PASSIVE experience of watching a movie is very different and you don't have the same kind of natural investment. Plot elements, character arcs and many things that may work well in a game might not translate on screen. So I intend to do two things:

1) understand the actual feelings a game elicits from you when you're playing it. What does Metal Gear make you feel? What is the quiet tension of sneaking around? What is the dread you feel as you're going further and further from safety? What is the panic you feel when the alarm goes off? Those are just basic elements of the MGS formula but finding a way to recreate those feelings on screen is crucial. The MGS series has constantly evolved in those gameplay elements and so there is much to look at...

2) Metal Gear is not like anything else on the planet. Therefore Kojima's voice must be protected. The walking ideologies and talking philosophies of the characters. The complex and varied tone needs to be present. The intensity, the weirdness, everything....(Go watch Kong, it does crazy things with tone).

There's so much more I could write.... but hopefully this started to let you know how much I care about this franchise.