Jordan Vogt-Roberts might be busy working a film adaptation of the popular action-adventure stealth video game, Metal Gear Solid, but it seems like the director's also managed to put together a great idea for another classic video game series – Metroid.
Going on an interview with IGN, Vogt-Roberts decided to open up about the hurdles and difficulties he had to face in trying to adapt video games into film. At the very end of his discussion with the publication, the director then went on talking about how much he loved the side-scrolling action-adventure game, Super Metroid. While gushing about the game, the filmmaker then went on talking about an idea for a film adaptation for Super Metroid, a close-to-dialogue-less action movie with only bounty hunter Samus Aron in it.
"It legitimately would be [Samus] alone. It would be a little bit of her talking to herself, but like, as soon as they introduce other talking characters in those games, to me, it loses everything. You put her alone, and it's like - it's almost got a little bit more to do with the silence of the movie, like Drive? Like the quietness. And having it be a really intense mood piece, but mixed with silence."
It sounds like a pretty interesting character study if anything, one that would go beyond the usual pedigree of videogame film adaptations. According to Vogt-Roberts, one of the many reasons video game film adaptations fail to succeed is that filmmakers usually put too much focus on the visuals and stories of their project instead of trying to bring out the emotional core and experience of a gamer actually trying to play the game.
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