Oscar Isaac wants to lead the upcom­ing Met­al Gear Sol­id film

As Oscar Isaac makes his way through the press tour for Netflix’s upcom­ing action thriller Triple Fron­tier, he’s doing a bit of upkeep on his career. Not only has he effec­tive­ly erased the mem­o­ry of Life Itself from life itself, he’s direct­ing the public’s atten­tion to what may be his next move.

In a new inter­view with IGN, Isaac states his inter­est in por­tray­ing the super­sol­dier code­named Sol­id Snake in an upcom­ing adap­ta­tion of the pop­u­lar video game fran­chise Met­al Gear Sol­id. ​“I’m throw­ing my hat in for that one,” said Isaac.

“That one” refers to the ges­tat­ing live-action adap­ta­tion to be direct­ed by Jor­dan Vogt-Roberts of Kong: Skull Island fame, from a script by Star Wars: Episode IX scribe Derek Con­nol­ly. Though many attempts to bring Hideo Kojima’s game series to the­aters have already been made in vain, this pro­duc­tion has got­ten the clos­est to exis­tence yet.

In the flag­ship game, the gruff Sol­id Snake must infil­trate the head­quar­ters of rogue spe­cial forces unit FOX­HOUND, lib­er­ate their hostages, and neu­tral­ize the threat of ter­ror­ism. Their evil plan involves using gigan­tic, heav­i­ly-armed mech-suits such as the Met­al Gear REX, a nuclear-class walk­ing tank that prac­ti­cal­ly begs for a big-screen treatment.

Video game enthu­si­asts may already know the bit of triv­ia that Snake’s design was orig­i­nal­ly based on the body of Jean-Claude Van Damme and the face of Christo­pher Walken. (This was the ​’90s.) Isaac could fit the mold.

Whether any­thing will come of all this is uncer­tain, but Vogt-Roberts seems to be into the idea. The direc­tor tweet­ed that though ​“the full process required to cast an icon hasn’t even start­ed,” he’s inter­est­ed and ​“the ball’s in Oscar’s court.”

If Isaac real­ly is com­mit­ted to lock­ing down this role, the card­board-box self­ie should be com­ing any day now.