‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie Concept Art Revealed As Solid Snake Gets Desperate For A Mission In Quarantine
Kong: Skull IslanddirectorJordan Vogt-Robertshas been working on aMetal Gear Solidmovie since 2014. Even though we haven’t gotten a lot of updates on the movie over the years, it seems like there has still been progress behind the scenes. The filmmaker gave a tease of some of the stuff he’s been working on with someMetal Gear Solidmovie concept art, as well as a teaser video featuring some work being done by Industrial Light and Magic. There’s also a special quarantine treat for all of theMetal Gear Solidvideo game fans out there.
Here’s what Jordan Vogt-Roberts posted to Twitter a couple days ago, teasing someMetal Gear Solidsneak peeks:
I wish I could share more frequent updates on the film adaptation of@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN’s seminal METAL GEAR SOLID…
— (((Jordan Vogt-Roberts))) (@VogtRoberts)July 03, 2025
If you’re not familiar with theMetal Gear Solidvideo game, it follows Solid Snake, a retired soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons disposal facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from Foxhound, a renegade special forces unit. He attempts to liberate their two hostages, the head of DARPA and the president of a major arms manufacturer and stops the terrorists from launching a nuclear strike.
The kind of communication seen in the above video happens frequently between Solid Snake and his cohorts throughout the story. What’s especially great about this video is that Vogt-Roberts got video game voices actorsDavid Hayter, Paul EidingandChristopher Randolphto reprise their respective roles as Solid Snake, Colonel Roy Campbell and Hal Emmerich, AKA Otacon.
But perhaps even better is this glimpse atMetal Gear Solidmovie concept art.
DAY 2 of#MGSQUARANTINE
I had the honor of reuniting with my KONG family at@ILMVFX. The dream team of Jeff White, Luis Carrasco & Ben Grangereau beautifully explored@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN’s poetic military surrealism.
Industrial Light & Magic + Metal Gear Solid is true nerd heaven.pic.twitter.com/GGYJi0OyMu
— (((Jordan Vogt-Roberts))) (@VogtRoberts)June 16, 2025
First up, the still image in the top tweet is Metal Gear REX, a huge walking tank with the ability to shoot nuclear missiles. It’s one of the big bad guys in the original game, and it looks like it’s been loyally recreated for the live-action movie.
As for that second tease, it’s a video featuring even more concept art. However, it’s a rather surreal, abstract kind of tease, and we’re not too sure what’s happening in it. What we do know is there’s some concept art of Gray Fox after he’s transformed into Cyborg Ninja, wearing a powered armor exoskeleton, his high-frequency blade seemingly strapped to his back. Before that, he was working with fellow Foxhound agent Solid Snake, the franchise’s protagonist, but he went missing and eventually sided with the villain Big Boss, only to be defeated and forced to become Cyborg Ninja.
The concept art for this movie looks right on par with the style of the video game, right down to the lines surrounding Solid Snake’s face to indicate that his surprise and shock. Perhaps that’s one way that the “Kojima-quirk” of the video game franchise has been utilized for the movie. Vogt-Roberts previously saidhe wanted to capture the weirdnessof the video game franchise in the movie, and it seems like this art has done that quite well.
As for who is playing Solid Snake, we’re still waiting to find out. There was some inkling last year that Oscar Isaacmight be the man for the job, but there hasn’t been any confirmation of that yet. Could we perhaps finally get some kind of official casting announcement from this #MGSQuarantine initiative? Stay tuned.
