Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer At 61 years old, Japanese game developer Hideo Kojima is far from retirement. Instead, the mastermind behind “Death Stranding” and “Metal Gear Solid” is charting a course that will expand his reach beyond the gaming world and into Hollywood as he signs with talent agency WME.
Ahead of his appearance at the Tokyo Game Show this weekend, Kojima spoke with Variety about selecting WME as his liaison in the world of TV and film, his plans for upcoming video games “Death Stranding 2,” “Physint” and Jordan Peele collaboration “OD,” as well as an update on the “Death Stranding” movie adaptation and his insistence on remaining an indie game developer at Kojima Productions.
I made games at Konami for 30 years. Though I was offered a lot of work outside of the company to film commercials or films or write scripts, I couldn’t do any of them because I was employed at Konami, and I was a board member as well.
Also, the games that I made were not my IP; they belonged to the company. At the end of 2015, I went independent. Because I love movies, I could have gone on to shoot movies or commercials.
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