Following their breakout year with Final Destination Bloodlines, directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein have set up another new high-profile project, Deadline can confirm. It’s a Metal Gear Solid movie, based on the stealth-action video game franchise from Hideo Kojima, that they’ll develop for Columbia Pictures, under a new first-look producing deal for Sony covering all studio labels.
The Metal Gear Solid movie will be the first ever. Avi Arad and Ari Arad are set to produce. Under the deal, Lipovsky and Stein’s new company, Wonderlab, will develop films for the duo to direct and original projects that they will produce for other directors. As previously reported, the pair are also developing an animated Venom movie for Sony Pictures Animation, as well as sci-fi epic The Earthling for Columbia Pictures, which they are producing alongside Eric Heisserer and Scott Glassgold.
Wonderlab’s focus will be creating wildly fun,
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