There's a through-line you can make in all of Hideo Kojima's games: the man loves a cutscene. The Metal Gear Solid series is notorious for its inclusion of hours and hours of cinematics, filling out the games themselves with story-heavy scenes. While the majority of games feature cutscenes, very few take things as far as Kojima. Death Stranding, too, will feature a lot of cutscenes in between the action.
The creator also famously watches a film every day, and is widely known to be a massive movie buff. It's no real surprise, then, to learn that he's thinking about the possibility of producing his own. Speaking with BBC Newsbeat in a new documentary, it sounds as though he'll be exploring the idea of making movies later down the line. "In the future, Kojima Productions will start making films," he says. "If you can do one thing well, then you can do everything well."
He continues to talk about the advent of streaming, and gaming's place within it. Kojima posits that games, movies, and TV will eventually be competing in the same space, as the masses will have on-demand access to everything. It'll certainly be interesting to see him and his team go on to make movies, and you have to imagine he already has some ideas.
Would you watch a Kojima Productions movie? Don't say Death Stranding already is one in the comments below.
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IF You Ask Certain People They Will Tell You That He Already Makes Movies
he should stick to movies, DS looks like absolute trash, a glorified fetch quest game how do ppl find it fun? Kojima is a selfish, self induldgement clout chasing fraud, no wonder Konami give him the a** DS wont even sell 2 mill copies.. LOL 84 score enuff said..
If the movie is good, sure. I always like the story in kojima games, I don't know if the story is suitable for movies though since games is a different medium than movie.
@pimpjuice lay of the pimp juice it has rotted your brain I think 🤣 🤣
i would love to see a Kojima Productions movie
i wonder what it will be about?
@FullbringIchigo America most probably.
Seems natural at this point. Some people will roll their eyes, but as far as I'm concerned the world needs more of his creative genius. Having said that, I probably won't watch it anyway (barely have time for gaming, let alone movies).
Well if he's smart about it and starts of with productions with a budget around the 30 to 40 mill range he might do alright as he does come up with original concepts but I don't expect kojima productions will be doing any summer blockbusters any time soon.
I have been saying this all.the time, that's what he should have been doing.
Japanese or Hollywood movies? Maybe he can get Guillermo del Toro to direct.
@pimpjuice oooh... 84 on metacritic.... burrrrn!
This whole thing is fascinating...
During the whole run-up to DS, people revered Kojima as a god.
Now that the game is out, people are breaking bad calling him a fraud.
If he decided to leave gaming behind, it would be most epic flameout ever.
I'm neither a fan nor a detractor, I'm just watching the circus as it rolls by.
Do a documentary!
Kojima vs Konami
If you can do one thing well you can do everything well? I'll keep an eye out for the Kojima Plumbing & Heating vans then
@pimpjuice Prepare to eat humble pie then cos DS selling around 5 million copies easily before it even hits PC.
"In the future, Kojima Productions will start making films," he says. "If you can do one thing well, then you can do everything well."
That's simply not true and comes off as really arrogant.
@doctommaso Totally agree with you. I like the guy, but maybe this "star" thing is getting to him?
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