In a recent interview, actor Kurt Russell recalled that he was once asked to voice Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, but also explained why he was not interested in the proposal at the time.
Hideo Kojima, the producer of the “Metal Gear” series, is an out-and-out movie buff. Not only does he often share his movie-watching experiences on his personal Twitter, but he also invites Hollywood actors to perform in many of his works this year. , such as Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux of “Death Stranding”, and even director Guillermo Del Toro, etc., and in the latest released “Death Stranding 2”, “Mad Max” director George Miller, etc., and in “Metal Gear Solid 5” released in 2015, he also hired Kiefer Sudran from “24” to voice Venom Snake.
According to David Hayter, the English voice actor of Solid Snake in the original “Metal Gear” series, revealed in 2016, Hideo Kojima actually once planned to cast Russell Cole, the actor who starred in the 1981 classic action movie “Escape from New York” I came here to voice this character. After all, the Snake Plissken played by this actor in the film was the inspiration for Solid Snake, the protagonist of the “Metal Gear” series. Obviously, Kurt Russell rejected the proposal at the time. In a recent interview with GQ magazine, he finally recalled this past incident and explained the reason for his refusal.
“Look, I’m pretty lazy, and people have asked me to do all kinds of things in all kinds of situations. I don’t know. I’m a filmmaker. You have to understand it from my perspective, Whether it’s Elvis or Snake Plissken or Jack Patton or RJ McCready, there’s a project. And that thing. You get drawn into it and create and you want to make that world come true. .” He said
“I was doing interviews when the Elvis movie came out in 1979, and they used to say, ‘Please, do Elvis for us.’ That’s not how it worked. I couldn’t freely switch to Elvis. You You have to do your homework and refine everything before you can do it and get paid. I come from a different generation. I have no interest in financially ‘expanding’ on characters I created in the past,” he said.
More importantly, Kurt Russell also stated that at the time, he was not interested in works directed or created by anyone other than “Escape from New York” director John Carpenter.
“I read the script and said, ‘John didn’t write this,’ and this doesn’t smell right. John wasn’t involved here. I’m not doing it. Let’s try something new, let’s do something fresh.” Let’s create another classic character together.” He said
It’s clear that Kurt Russell doesn’t have a big problem with returning to his role in Escape from New York, as he does have interest in participating in the long-rumored sequel to Escape from New York, as well as starring in multiple films of Escape From New York. He played Santa Claus in the film, but considering that when he was asked to participate in Metal Gear Solid, video games were still not considered a mainstream medium, it is not difficult to understand why he declined due to his unfamiliarity with the medium. But thankfully, the final choice of voice actor for the English version, David Hayter, did give players many impressive performances.
