David Hayter | |
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 Hayter at the 2024 Game On Expo | |
| Other names | Sean Barker |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
David Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the English-language voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear video game series. He wrote the film X-Men and co-wrote X2 and Watchmen , and was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 2000 for his work on X-Men. Hayter voiced King Shark on The Flash .
Hayter's father, Stephen, worked in the pharmaceutical industry. [1] David Hayter started acting at the age of nine. He spent most of his childhood living around the world, and moved to Kobe at the age of 15, graduating from its international Canadian Academy in 1987. After this, he attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for two years until transferring to the Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto. He stayed there until the age of 20, when he moved to Hollywood. [2]
Hayter did some live acting in the early 1990s, most notably in an episode of the sitcom Major Dad , but soon became more interested in voice acting and later landed the role of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. [3] He also provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III in the English version of the anime film The Castle of Cagliostro and the voice of Tamahome in the English version of the anime series Fushigi Yūgi . He also starred in the 1994, straight-to-video movie, Guyver: Dark Hero , as the protagonist, Sean Barker (a role he took over from the previous actor, Jack Armstrong); Hayter has since gone-on to use the character's name as an alias in various work credits.
Hayter began providing the English voice of Metal Gear series protagonist Solid Snake in the 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid , which also served as the series's transition from 2D to 3D. Hayter would go on to play Solid Snake and his progenitor Naked Snake throughout all the succeeding installments (including spinoffs, re-releases and adaptations) up to and including Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010). Hayter also has an extended live-action cameo as himself in one of the fictional TV programs prior to the start of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008); where he wears the "Solid Eye", the technologically advanced eye patch that the main character wears throughout the game. Outside the Metal Gear series, Hayter also voiced the character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008).
His work with the Metal Gear series has also led Hayter to do voice work in other video game projects such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and Star Wars: The Old Republic . He cited the series as an influence on his screenwriting, stating that "Kojima and I have different styles," "but I've certainly learned things from him, especially about ambiguity and telling a story without giving all the answers." [4]
Hayter is one of the few Metal Gear actors to have played and completed the games he's voiced in. [5] According to Paul Eiding, Hayter gave up half of his own paycheck in order to bring back the cast of the original Metal Gear Solid for the 2004 remake Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes .[ citation needed ]
Following the announcement of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in the 2013 Game Developers Conference, Hayter announced that he was not asked to reprise as the main character for this entry. [6] This was later confirmed when Konami announced that Kiefer Sutherland would be the character's voice during E3 the same year. [7] Hayter has since revealed in an interview that he had to re-audition for the role suggesting that the series' creator Hideo Kojima was already considering recasting the part much earlier, with Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken in Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. ) having been allegedly offered the role during the development of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004). [8]
After Kojima's departure from Konami, Hayter would reprise the role in a Metal Gear Solid-themed advertisement for the 2016 Ford Focus SE aired in 2016. [9] In 2018, Hayter provided the character's voice in two video games: Super Bomberman R (which added two playable characters based on both Solid Snake and Naked Snake in an update) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate . [10]
In 2000, he wrote the screenplay for the movie version of X-Men , for which he was awarded the 2000 Saturn Award for Best Writing, [11] and then went on to co-write the screenplay for its sequel X2 with writing team Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris. Shortly after his work on X-Men, Hayter was hired to write and direct a project based on the heroine Black Widow. [12] However, due to the limited success of similar themed films featuring female vigilante protagonists at the time, Marvel withdrew their offer to Hayter stating, "We don't think it's time to do this movie". Hayter's daughter Natasha, born whilst he was writing the Black Widow script, is named after the titular character. [13]
Hayter also wrote an adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons. Noted for being a harsh critic of translations of his works to film, Moore said of the script "David Hayter's screenplay was as close as I could imagine anyone getting to [a film version of] Watchmen. That said, I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way." [14] Hayter and writer Alex Tse shared credit on the finished screenplay. Tse drew "the best elements" from two of the project's previous drafts written by Hayter. [15] The script did not keep the contemporary atmosphere that Hayter created, but instead returned to the original Cold War setting of the Watchmen comic. [16] Warner Bros. was amenable to the 1980s setting, and the director also added a title montage sequence to introduce the audience to the events of alternate history United States in that time period. [17]
On September 7, 2012, it was announced that Hayter would pen the screen adaptation Caught Stealing, and would star Patrick Wilson and Alec Baldwin. [18]
On September 13, 2012, Hayter began filming on his directorial debut, Wolves . [19]
On July 8, 2013, Hayter was hired by Lakeshore Entertainment to write the film The Sword , based on the Image Comics series. [20]
On August 7, 2013, it was announced Hayter was developing a television show on Fox tentatively titled World War III, about a fiction global conflict that chronicles "a perfect storm of world events places us in the center of a global battle which may bring the world as we know it to an end." Hayter will be writing the series' story bible and pilot episode, as well as producing and serving as showrunner. [21]
On September 28, 2018, Hayter announced he was co-writing and producing the Netflix series Warrior Nun , based on the 1994 comic book series Warrior Nun Areala , with Simon Barry serving as series creator and showrunner. [22] Season 1 debuted on Netflix on July 2, 2020.
On January 31, 2022, it was announced that Hayter would be writing and producing a television adaptation of the 2000 video game American McGee's Alice . [23]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1994 | Moldiver | Hiroshi Ozora | |
| 1996 | Rakusho! Hyper Doll | Reporter | as Sean Barker |
| They Were Eleven | Doricas Soldam IV | as Sean Barker | |
| 1997 | Street Fighter II V | Additional Voices | as Sean Barker (Animaze dub) |
| Black Jack [ broken anchor ] | Leslie Harris | as Sean Barker | |
| 1998–2000 | Fushigi Yûgi | Tamahome / Taka Sukunami / Yoshui | as Sean Barker |
| 1998 | Giant Robo: The Animation | Shoji Gen | as Sean Barker |
| Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie | Kurama | as Sean Barker | |
| 1999 | Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket | Bernard Wiseman | as Sean Barker [24] |
| 2000 | The Castle of Cagliostro | Arsène Lupin III | as Sean Barker (Manga dub) |
| 2000–01 | Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure | Additional Voices |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996–97 | Spider-Man | Captain America | TV series; 8 episodes |
| 2006 | Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel | Solid Snake | |
| 2013 | Metal Gear Solid 2: Digital Graphic Novel | Solid Snake | Motion comic adaptation of the Metal Gear Solid 2 graphic novel included as extra content in Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1998 | Metal Gear Solid | Solid Snake | English dub |
| 2001 | Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty | Solid Snake / Iroquois Pliskin | English dub |
| 2002 | Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem | Roman Legionnaire 1 / Roman Legionnaire 2 / Angkor Thom Guard | |
| 2004 | Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes | Solid Snake | |
| Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater | Naked Snake | English dub | |
| 2005 | Metal Gear Acid 2 | Snake | English dub |
| 2006 | Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops | Naked Snake | English dub |
| 2008 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Snake | English dub |
| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots | Old Snake | English dub; Also has a live-action cameo playing himself. | |
| 2010 | Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker | Naked Snake | English dub |
| 2011– | Star Wars: The Old Republic | Jedi Knight Male [25] | |
| 2013 | Marvel Heroes | Winter Soldier | |
| 2013–15 | République | Daniel Zager | |
| 2014 | Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! | Mudokons | |
| 2015 | Dragon Age: Inquisition | Lieutenant Renn | The Descent DLC |
| 2016 | The Long Dark | Jeremiah | |
| Deponia Doomsday | Old Rufus | ||
| 2018 | Super Bomberman R | Solid Snake Bomber / Naked Snake Bomber | English dub; Characters added in the Ver. 2.1 update patch, released on June 27, 2018 |
| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Solid Snake [26] | English dub; re-uses voice work recorded for Super Smash Bros. Brawl | |
| 2019 | Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night | Zangetsu, Narrator [27] | |
| 2020 | Phantom: Covert Ops | General Nikolai Zhurov | |
| 2020 | Yakuza: Like a Dragon | Osamu Kashiwagi ("The Bartender") | English dub [28] |
| 2020 | Super Bomberman R Online | Solid Snake Bomber / Naked Snake Bomber / Old Snake Bomber | English dub; Old Snake Bomber was added on May 27, 2021 |
| 2021 | Retroninjacyberassassin | Doc Ninja [29] | David recorded a few voice lines for Doc Ninja, the healer character, [30] they were added in an update to the early access version. |
| 2023 | Synapse | Colonel Peter Conrad [31] | |
| 2024 | Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth | Osamu Kashiwagi ("The Bartender"), additional voices | English dub [32] |
| TBD | Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater | Naked Snake | English dub; re-uses voice work recorded for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater [33] |
| Year | Film | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 1998 | Burn | No | No | Yes | Unreleased on home media. Uploaded on David Hayter's Youtube channel on May 2, 2019. [34] |
| 2000 | X-Men | No | Yes | No | |
| 2002 | Lost in Oz | No | Yes | Yes | TV movie |
| The Scorpion King | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2003 | X2 | No | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | Watchmen | No | Yes | No | |
| 2010 | Chasm | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
| 2014 | Wolves | Yes | Yes | No | Directorial debut |
| 2015 | A Christmas Horror Story | No | No | Executive | |
| 2020 | Warrior Nun | No | Yes | Supervising producer | 2 episodes |
| TBA | Untitled Voltron live-action film | No | Yes | No |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | Major Dad | Misha Sarotsky | Episode: "From Russia with Like" |
| 1994 | Guyver: Dark Hero | Sean Barker | |
| Long Shadows | Ed's secretary | TV movie | |
| 1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | Voice | Episodes: "Stalemate" and "Total War" |
| 1997 | Drive | Cop #1 | |
| 1998 | Burn | Tom Rice | |
| 2000 | Wild on the Set | Narrator | TV series |
| X-Men | Museum Cop | ||
| 2014 | Devil's Mile | Toby McTeague | |
| 2016–2019 | The Flash | King Shark | 4 episodes Voice only |
| 2022 | Turning Red | Additional Voices | |
| Year | Webshow | Role | Notes |
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| 2009 | Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? | Episode: "The Sons of Big Boss" Voice only | |
| 2017 | The Jimquisition | Episode: "Slay to Pay" Voice only | |
| 2018 | Boundary Break | Solid Snake | Episode: "Metal Gear Solid" [35] |
| 2019 | Khonjin House | Solid Snake | Episode: "Infiltrator 2" Voice only |
| 2022 | Did You Know Gaming? | Narrator | Episode: "Metal Gear Solid's Cut Content" [36] Episode: "Metal Gear Solid's Insane Cut Content" [37] Voice only |
Metal Gear Solid is a 1998 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation. It was directed, produced, and written by Hideo Kojima, and follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, which Kojima also worked on. It was unveiled at the 1996 Tokyo Game Show and then demonstrated at trade shows including the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo; its Japanese release was originally planned for late 1997, before being delayed to 1998.
Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game designer. He is regarded as one of the first auteurs of video games. He developed a strong passion for film and literature during his childhood and adolescence, which in turn has had a significant influence on his games. In 1986 he joined Konami, for which he directed, designed and wrote Metal Gear (1987) for the MSX2, the game that laid the foundations for the stealth genre and the Metal Gear franchise, his best known and most acclaimed work. At Konami, he also produced the Zone of the Enders series, as well as designing and writing Snatcher (1988) and Policenauts (1994), graphic adventure games regarded for their cinematic presentation.
Solid Snake is a fictional character from the Metal Gear series created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami, appearing as the main protagonist in many of the games of the series. He is depicted as a former Green Beret and highly skilled special operations soldier engaged in solo stealth and espionage missions who is often tasked with destroying models of the bipedal nuclear weapon-armed mecha known as Metal Gear. Controlled by the player, he must act alone, supported via radio by commanding officers and specialists. While his first appearances in the original Metal Gear games were references to Hollywood films, the Metal Gear Solid series has given a consistent design by artist Yoji Shinkawa alongside an established personality while also exploring his relationship with his mentor and father.
Metal Gear is a franchise of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed and published by Konami, the first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for MSX home computers. The player often takes control of a special forces operative, who is assigned the task of finding the titular superweapon, "Metal Gear", a bipedal walking tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a 2001 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. Originally released on November 13, it is the fourth Metal Gear game produced by Hideo Kojima, the seventh overall game in the series and is a sequel to Metal Gear Solid (1998). An expanded edition, titled Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, was released the following year for Xbox and Windows in addition to the PlayStation 2. A remastered version of the game, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition, was later included in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita. The HD Edition of the game was included in the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 compilation for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S, which was released on October 24, 2023.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a 2004 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. It was released in late 2004 in North America and Japan, and in early 2005 in Europe and Australia. It was the fifth Metal Gear game written and directed by Hideo Kojima and serves as a prequel to the entire Metal Gear series. An expanded edition, titled Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, was released in Japan in late 2005, then in North America, Europe and Australia in 2006. A remastered version of the game, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - HD Edition, was later included in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita, while a reworked version, titled Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2012. The HD Edition of the game was included on the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 compilation for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on October 24, 2023. The same year, Konami announced a remake, entitled Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, set to release for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in 2024.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a 2004 action-adventure stealth video game published by Konami, who co-developed with Silicon Knights, for the GameCube. Released in March, the game is a remake of Metal Gear Solid, originally developed by Konami for the PlayStation in 1998.
Raiden, real name Jack, is a character and one of the protagonists of Konami's Metal Gear series of action-adventure stealth video games. Created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa, Raiden was introduced in the series as the main player character of the 2001 game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In Metal Gear Solid 2, he appears to be a member of the U.S. special operations unit FOXHOUND and is participating in his first mission against terrorists. Despite coming across as a young rookie, he is later revealed to have been a child soldier in his native Liberia. Raiden also appears as a supporting character in the 2008 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, in which he is assisting the series' main protagonist Solid Snake in his fight against Revolver Ocelot's forces. He is also the main character of the 2013 game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, in which he is dealing with his past and his present life as a combatant who faces enemies from private military companies.
Revolver "Shalashaska" Ocelot is a recurring fictional character in Konami's Metal Gear video game series. Throughout the series, he takes on a variety of roles: a major nemesis of Solid Snake, a friendly rival to Naked Snake, the right-hand man to Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake, and a close ally to Venom Snake. Ocelot has been well received by video game publications for his role as a central villain in the franchise, and has often been considered one of its most important characters for his connections with various characters.
Big Boss is a fictional character from the Metal Gear series created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. He was first introduced in the 1987 Metal Gear game as the commanding officer and father of Solid Snake, featuring in a twist as the game's main antagonist. He is later featured in the prequel games as Naked Snake, an American Special Forces Operator and decorated war hero. Political manipulations cause him to be disillusioned when facing his own mentor, and he gradually develops his own private mercenary company while growing into the original Big Boss persona and being referred to as simply Snake.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a 2008 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami for the PlayStation 3. It is the sixth Metal Gear game directed by Hideo Kojima. Set five years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the story centers around a prematurely aged Solid Snake, now known as Old Snake, as he goes on one last mission to assassinate his nemesis Liquid Snake, who now inhabits the body of his former henchman Revolver Ocelot under the guise of Liquid Ocelot, before he takes control of the Sons of the Patriots, an A.I. system that controls the activities of PMCs worldwide. The game was released on June 12, 2008.
The Metal Gear franchise features a large number of characters created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa. Its setting features several soldiers with supernatural powers provided by scientific advancements.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, officially abbreviated MPO, is a 2006 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation Portable. The game was directed by Masahiro Yamamoto and written by Gakuto Mikumo, with series creator Hideo Kojima acting as producer.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a 2010 stealth game developed and published by Konami. It is the seventh Metal Gear game written, directed, and designed by Hideo Kojima, and the fifth installment of the Metal Gear Solid series, as well as the fourth Metal Gear game made specifically for the PlayStation Portable, following Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. A remastered version of the game titled Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - HD Edition was later released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection in North America and Europe and as a stand-alone retail release in Japan.
Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy is a 2009 Italian non-profit fan made film series created by Hive Division, a team of Italian students and filmmakers. It is a film based on the highly successful Metal Gear video game series. It is written, directed and edited by Giacomo Talamini, a 27-year-old Italian student filmmaker who also stars in the movie as Solid Snake.
Metal Gear is an action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2. It was released for the system in Japan and parts of Europe in 1987. Considered to have popularized the stealth game genre, it was the first video game to be fully developed by Hideo Kojima, who would go on to direct most of the games that followed in the Metal Gear series. A reworked port of the game was released for the Famicom a few months later, which later saw release in international markets for the NES over the following two years; this version was developed without Kojima's involvement and features drastically altered level designs, among other changes.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami. Directed, written, and designed by Hideo Kojima, it is the ninth installment in the Metal Gear franchise, following Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, a stand-alone prologue released the previous year. Set in 1984, nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, the story follows mercenary leader Punished "Venom" Snake as he ventures into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and the Angola–Zaire border region to exact revenge on those who destroyed his forces and came close to killing him during the climax of Ground Zeroes.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a 2014 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami. It is the eighth game in the Metal Gear series directed, written and designed by Hideo Kojima, and serves as a prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, released the following year after Ground Zeroes. Set in 1975, a few months after the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the story follows Snake as he infiltrates an American black site in Cuba called Camp Omega, attempting to rescue Cipher agent Paz Ortega Andrade and former Sandinista child soldier Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre.
The Metal Gear video games consist of 17 different albums, totaling over 940 minutes of music within the 11 games. There were four different music labels used for the albums in different games. These include Sony Entertainment, Konami Digital Entertainment, Phantom Studios, Sumthing Else Music Works, and King Records (Japan). The most used record labels were Konami Digital Entertainment and King Records. Konami was used for Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Original Soundtrack, and the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. King Records was used for Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Original Soundtrack, Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack, Metal Gear/ Solid Snake: Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima / Red Dis, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Original Soundtrack, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Soundtrack 2: The Other Side. Several different producers were used for different games. These include Konami, Masahiro Hinami, Noriakio Kamura, Norihiko Hibino, Tojima, Harry Gregson-Williams. Konami producing 6 out of the 11 Metal Gear games. The games used many different genres of music throughout the games. They are as follows: breakbeat, classical, drum and bass, electronic, hip hop, jazz, ambient, acoustic, Latin American, electronic rock, industrial metal, alternative metal, hard rock, power metal, neoclassical, romantic music, lounge, and rock and roll.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is an upcoming action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami. It is a remake of the 2004 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the fifth main entry in the Metal Gear franchise and the first chronological game overall. Set in 1964, the game follows a FOX operative codenamed Naked Snake, who must save a Russian rocket scientist and sabotage the Soviet nuclear superweapon Shagohod, while clearing the United States from Soviet suspicion amid Cold War tensions, and confronting his former mentor, The Boss, who has defected to their side.
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