And at one point, Kojima reportedly wanted Kurt Russell to voice Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and take over from English-language voice artist David Hayter. (Russell would have ...

Since the series' earliest days on the humble MSX, one of the big inspirations behind Metal Gear has been John Carpenter's Escape from New York. Protagonist Solid Snake gets his callsign from Kurt ...

Kiefer Sutherland is voicing Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, but according to Kojima, we may not hear him speak much at all. In an interview with IGN, Kojima discussed Snakes ...

Solid Snake is, quite openly, an homage to Snake Plissken, the protagonist of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. Creator Hideo Kojima has been forthright about the film’s influence on his ...