Not content to just campaign to play Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, former UFC champion Ronda Rousey is now looking to take on another iconic role.
“I’ve always wanted to be Samus,” Rousey told Gamespot. “That would be badass. I love how people found out later that it was a hot chick on the inside. And then most of the day you’re in a suit, so you can just hang out and eat donuts and be the star of Metroid. I hope they make a movie out of that.”
Metroid debuted on the NES in 1988, and would become a Nintendo icon with the release of 1994’s Super Metroid, a game hailed as one of the best ever made. Its star, Samus Aran, would feature again in the critically-acclaimed Metroid Prime Trilogy across the Gamecube and Nintendo Wii and the the critically-destroyed Metroid: Other M.
In 2004, it looked like John Woo was going to direct a big screen Metroid movie with Brad Foxhoven producing and David Greenwalt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) providing a script that would develop Samus’ origin. However, issues with Nintendo stonewalling Greenwalt over backstory details for the character meant that Woo and Foxhoven left the project to create John Woo Presents Stranglehold instead.
Originally published February 23, 2016. Updated June 30, 2023.
