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   This week's 2007 D.I.C.E. Summit from Las Vegas played host to at least a couple of pleasant surprises, from a gaming standpoint, and both of them were delivered by Yair Landau (Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and President of Sony Pictures Digital), in his kick-ass kick-off keynote address preceeding the opening night party, and afterwards in a more private chat with Gamespot. The first surprise was the annoucement of a MMO espionage game, currently in development at SOE's Seattle studio. We'll get back to this spy MMO later, but for now, what interests us is Landau's second revelation.

   Talking to Gamespot last night in Vegas, he revealed that Sony Pictures were the ones working with Hideo Kojima's team, to make the Metal Gear Solid movie happen.
"We're working with the Metal Gear guys," Landau told GameSpot following his D.I.C.E. summit keynote address in Las Vegas. "It's a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie telling. But the question is, 'How do you translate Snake's experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?'"    This follows eight months of uncertainty over which studio had signed for the MGS movie, after last year's E3 when Kojima said that "a movie project is underway. I have finalized a Class-A contract with a party in Hollywood". Prior to that, he categorically dismissed alarming rumours linking the Metal Gear Solid movie with Uew Boll, by announcing on his blog: "It's impossible that we'd ever do a movie with him".

   Aside from the MGS movie, Landau also hinted that Sony Pictures was looking to bring other games to the silver screen as well, and in particular EverQuest:
"We're working with one of my favorite producers right now on an idea for an EverQuest movie." The producer was apparently of such stature that Landau declined to name him. "I'll let him disclose that," he said cryptically.    Ahem... EverQuest? Come on, I can fully dig a World of Warcraft movie, but they're really stretching it here.