There was, once upon a time, a serious plan to bring a Metroid movie to the silver screen. With John Woo directing. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but various things conspired to sink the project, chief among them Nintendo itself.
As former producer Brad Foxhoven tells IGN, while Nintendo at first surprisingly gave its blessing to the projectābeing big John Woo fans, apparentlyāthe company was also aware of how badly it could be burned when Hollywood takes liberties with its characters
The biggest of these problems concerned Samusā back-story, which the producers would need to explore if they were making a movie about her. āWhat are they doing when they are NOT fighting? What is their daily existence and relationships?ā, he adds. āWhat are Samusās aspirations, history, and fears? Nintendo appreciated the questions, but had never thought about them before, and ultimately didnāt have a lot of answers. In the end, they felt uncomfortable with our team being the ones to propose those answers.ā
The Metroid movie project eventually fell apart in 2007, with Nintendo and Team Ninja doing their own Samus back-story in Metroid: Other M for the Wii.
