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Liam Wong
Podcaster and also movie watcher Hideo Kojima enjoys being deceptive regarding whatever game he’s presently dealing with. The Metal Gear developer regularly sells cryptic hype, marketing his future games with weird, threatening problems that mean motifs he’s interested in greater than what the game might resemble. What he isn’t deceptive regarding, nevertheless, is that he’s dealing with this things with.
Given the assemblage of his impassioned cinephilia and also his significantly motion picture games, Kojima has actually required to working together with filmmakers and also film celebrities for addition in his games. Death Stranding, for instance, had plenty of them: The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus obviously, however likewise The Shape of Water and also Hellboy supervisor Guillermo del Toro, Drive supervisor Nicolas Winding Refn, and also Hannibal celebrity Mads Mikkelsen. This typically entails the star concerned being in front of a scary electronic camera gear as their whole visage is digitized in unpleasant information, for prospective recreation in a game.
Kojima’s most recent sufferer partner is none aside from S.S. Rajamouli, the supervisor of this year’s breakout hit RRR, a movie that Kojima tweeted rapturously about on behalf of its Japanese best today.
Director S.S. Rajamouli checked out KJP!!! We have actually checked him. RRR pic.twitter.com/rcyatlnXnS
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) October 20, 2022
This indicates we can eagerly anticipate Rajamouli showing up in… well, something. Maybe. Kojima has actually been checking a variety of individuals nowadays, from Elle Fanning (almost certainly involved in one of Kojima’s possible projects) to Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii, that might not show up in anything.
Maybe he’s simply constructing a collection. For himself. As one does.
Source: Polygon
