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faramir77 posted...

Even Kojima screwed Hayter over. They remove him from the role of Snake only to give Kiefer Sutherland virtually zero lines.

I suspect that was more a matter of pressure from higher up in Konami than Kojima's creative choices. Paying to shoehorn a big-name actor into an established series for publicity's sake is more a corporate-level move than something you'd expect from the series' director, especially when the actor in question has a relatively small number of lines (which suggests they were too expensive to give a bigger role to).