| David Hayter | |
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| Born | David Bryan Hayter 6 February 1969 Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Occupation | Voice actor, screenwriter, actor |
David Bryan Hayter (born February 6, 1969) is a Canadian-American voice actor, actor, and screenwriter. He is best known for providing the English voices of Solid Snake and Big Boss (Naked Snake) in the Metal Gear video game series, and for writing the screenplay for X-Men and co-writing the screenplay for The Scorpion King and X2. He also wrote a screenplay for Watchmen from the comic book series of the same name, which received an enthusiastic reception from the director and original illustrator. Earlier in his acting career, he played the lead role in the live-action Guyver: Dark Hero.
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Biography
Early life
Hayter was born in California to Canadian parents. He started acting at the age of 9. Hayter spent most of his childhood living around the world and at the age of 15, Hayter moved to Kobe in Japan where he graduated the Canadian Academy, an international school, in 1987. After high school, he attended Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada until the age of 20 when he moved to Hollywood.[1] He did some live acting in the early 1990s, but became interested in voice acting after making a cameo appearance in an episode of the sitcom Major Dad, and later landed the role of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. 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.
Metal Gear Solid
In 1998, Hayter voiced protagonist Solid Snake in the highly successful PlayStation video game Metal Gear Solid. He provided Snake's voice in later Metal Gear games such as Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (which was a remake of Metal Gear Solid), and provided the voice for a closely related character, Naked Snake, the future Big Boss, in the prequels Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Most recently he has voiced Solid Snake (renamed Old Snake) in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and PSP upcoming game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Also, he had a brief acting role in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots during one of the beginning commercial propaganda scenes, starring as himself in the alternate reality of the Metal Gear world. In the scene, he wears the "Solid Eye", the technologically advanced eye patch that Old Snake wears throughout the game.
Hayter also provided the voice of Solid Snake for the character's guest appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a Wii fighting game unrelated to the Metal Gear series. Hayter is one of the few Metal Gear Solid actors to date to have played and beaten the Metal Gear games he's voiced in,[2] while co-star Christopher Randolph has only played Metal Gear Solid.
According to an interview with Paul Eiding, Hayter gave up half of his own paycheck in order to bring back the cast of Metal Gear Solid for the remake, The Twin Snakes. This is the reason why the voice acting in The Twin Snakes was almost completely redone with the same voice actors, one of the few differences being the actor for Gray Fox, Greg Eagles, who was replaced by Rob Paulsen.[3]
An interview with David Hayter by Game Informer in 2001, showed that Hayter wished for the then-unconfirmed Metal Gear Solid movie to be animated or made in CGI, possibly so he could provide the voice of Solid Snake. He also wished to be the screenwriter under the possible supervision of Hideo Kojima.[citation needed] That plan did not pan out correctly and his script was rejected by Sony. However, it isn't known if he will or will not be cast for the role or any role in the movie.
His work with Metal Gear Solid has also led Hayter to other video game voices, such as characters in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, by Silicon Knights, who also developed Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for the Nintendo GameCube.
Film
Hayter's first movie appearance was in Guyver: Dark Hero. Hayter has also worked in the writing side of film. In 2000 he wrote the screenplay for the movie version of X-Men, and then went on to co-write the screenplay for its sequel X2 with Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris. He was not part of the third film in the series.
Hayter also wrote a 134 page screenplay adaptation to 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 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."[4] However, Hayter was dropped from the project after a disagreement with Universal Studios, and so was not actively involved in the actual film. In an interview with the IGN Podcast Beyond team, Hayter revealed he would be credited for writing the screenplay.
Alex Tse took over writing the screenplay which would be used in the film. For the new script, Tse drew "the best elements" from two of the project's previous drafts written by screenwriter Hayter.[5] The script did not keep the contemporary atmosphere that Hayter created, but instead returned to the original Cold War setting of the Watchmen comic.[6] 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.[7]
Hayter is currently in talks with Warner Bros. to write and direct a film based on the video game Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.[8] It was also recently confirmed that Hayter had co-founded Dark Hero Studios, a company (named after his Guyver role) specializing in producing horror and fantasy themed films, comics and video games. Its first project will be a werewolf film called Slaughter's Road, directed by Hayter and starring Ray Stevenson and Thomas Dekker. Filming is set to begin this summer.[9][10]
Hayter will also write the script for a film adaptation of the comic series The Deadworld.[11]
Selected credits
Acting roles
- Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (2010): Naked Snake/Big Boss
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008): Old Snake and Himself in the beginning videos
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (2007): Naked Snake/Big Boss
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006): Naked Snake/Big Boss
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (2006): Naked Snake/Big Boss
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004): Naked Snake/Big Boss
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (2004): Solid Snake
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002): Roman Legionnaire I/Roman Legionnaire II/Angkor Thom guard
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (2002): Solid Snake/Iroquois Pliskin
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001): Solid Snake/Iroquois Pliskin
- Wild on the Set (2000) TV Series
- X-Men (2000): Museum Cop
- X-Men: Evolution (2000) TV Series: Captain America
- Dual! Paralle lunlun monogatari (1999) TV Series (English version)
- Metal Gear Solid (1998): Solid Snake
- Burn (1998)
- Drive (1997): Cop #1
- Fushigi Yūgi: Tamahome
- Fushigi Yūgi: Memories First OAV (1996): Tamahome/Taka
- Fushigi Yūgi: The Mysterious Play - Reflections OAV 2: Tamahome/Taka
- Rakusho! Hyper Doll (1995) (V) (English version)
- Street Fighter II V (1995) TV Series (English version)
- Long Shadows (1994) (TV)
- Guyver: Dark Hero (1994): Sean Barker/Guyver
- Macross Plus (1994): Isamu Dyson (Bandai Visual version, vol.4)
- Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie (1994): Kurama (English version)
- Moldiver (Morudaibâ) (1993): Hiroshi Ozora
- Giant Robo: The Animation (1991) (V) (English version)
- Présumé dangereux (1990)
- Gundam 0080: War In the Pocket (1989) (miniseries) Bernard Wiseman (English version)
- Wrath of the Ninja (1987) (OVA): Sakon Hayate (English Version)
- They Were Eleven (1986) (voice: English version)
- The Castle of Cagliostro (1979): Arsene Lupin III (English Version)
- Major Dad (1993) (TV): Misha Sarotsky (guest appearance) "From Russia with Like" (Season 4 episode 17, 1993)
Screenwriting
- X-Men (2000) - writer
- The Scorpion King (2002) - co-writer
- X2: X-Men United (2003) - co-writer
- Watchmen (2009) - co-writer
- Lost Planet - writer/director [4]
References
- ^ http://thisweekingeek.net/interviews/twig-david-hayter-special-interview?q=node/128
- ^ "UK PSP". http://uk.psp.gamespy.com/playstation-portable/kojima-productions-project/747389p1.html. Retrieved 15 December 2006.
- ^ http://mgstus.org/downloads/audio/interview_peiding/peiding_p1.mp3
- ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1120854,00.html
- ^ Gregory Ellwood (2006-07-18). "World awaits Watchmen". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117947044. Retrieved 2006-09-23.
- ^ "Exclusive: Zack Snyder talks Watchmen". Empire. 2006-10-05. http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=19672. Retrieved 2006-10-05.
- ^ Patrick Lee (2006-11-09). "Snyder: Watchmen Remains True". Sci Fi Wire. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=38891. Retrieved 2006-11-09.
- ^ http://www.evilavatarradio.com/audio/EAR.Episode111.mp3
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External links
- Official website
- David Hayter at the Internet Movie Database
- David Hayter Geeks Out with NERDSociety
- 10 Questions: David Hayter at IGN
- This Week In Geek Interview with David Hayter
- David Hayter Discusses Watchmen at AMCtv.com
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