Ignoring Kojima, who has talked many times in the past of wanting to do movies.

Sony Pictures said no to Giacomo Talamini and hired Jay Basu instead? Siiiiiiiiiigh... If the world wasn't so ****ed up, executives would be open-minded enough to allow Sony Pictures to do the mainstream movie, and Hive Division would be hired to do separate online films to promote the Metal Gear franchise (ad revenue goes to Konami). Then the fans and newcomers have a CHOICE as to what they want to watch. Odds are, newcomers won't even care about the online films, and that's fine. They get their movie, and we get ours.

But no, instead we get this piece of news. Well ****... I know I can't judge until the movie comes out... But... Well ****...

Edit: Ideally I would prefer Hive Division to be given a large investment for them to do a mainstream theatrical movie, but I do understand reality, and there's far too many skeptics to allow this to happen over a company as huge and reputable as Sony Pictures. Also for the record, the writer and director would NOT reprise his role as Snake if he had money. He was actually against the idea, but there really was nobody available to take the role, look the part, and understand Snake's character to portray the part. He would GLADLY hire a better professional actor for that role. Still, I think Giacomo Talamini looked awesome as Snake, but I begrudgingly agree that he would be wrong for mainstream film.