Kurt Russell was apparently as soon as provided to voice Metal Gear Solid 3’s Snake, and in a brand new interview he defined why he would not be involved in such a job.
It’s no secret that Hideo Kojima is an enormous cinephile, it is type of his entire factor – a lot in order that he gave long-time Snake voice actor David Hayter the boot in favour of Kiefer Sutherland for Metal Gear Solid 5’s Snake. Back in 2016, Hayter claimed that Kojima really tried to get Escape from New York’s Russell to take over the position of Snake for Metal Gear Solid 3 (for context, Solid Snake’s namesake is a reference to the John Carpenter movie’s Snake Plissken). Russel apparently turned the position down, and in a recent video interview with GQ, really spoke about why he would not take up a job like that.
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“Look, I’m fairly lazy by nature,” Russel mentioned. “There have been many alternative instances when individuals needed to do one thing. I do not know, I’m a film man. You have to grasp that from my perspective, whether or not it’s Elvis, or Snake Plissken, or Jack Burton, or R.J. MacReady, that was that venture. That was that factor. You get into that mindset. You create that. You wish to make that world occur.
“I used to do interviews when Elvis was popping out and they’d say, ‘C’mon, perform a little Elvis for us.’ It would not work that means, you don’t simply slide out and in of Elvis. You go to work on it. You refine it, and you then do it and also you receives a commission for that. I come from a special period. I wasn’t involved in ‘increasing’ financially off of one thing that we had created or that I had created when it comes to a personality.”
Importantly, Russell additionally famous that something like that that did not contain Carpenter means he would not have been both. “I’d have a look at [a script] and say ‘that is not written by John,'” earlier than sniffing the air, including, “That would not odor proper. John’s not right here to do that. I’m not gonna do this. Let’s go do one thing new, let’s do one thing recent, let’s go create one other iconic character.”
Russell clearly is not towards returning to characters completely, he did really return to play Snake in an Escape from New York sequel, and is in a number of Christmas Chronicle movies as Santa. But, I can not actually blame him for not selecting up a job in some sport he is by no means heard of, particularly at a time the place video video games weren’t very extremely regarded outdoors of its personal sphere. Plus, Hayter is iconic because the character, they should not have gotten rid of him for MGSV anyway.
