Kojima Would Have Had to Rewrite Death Stranding 2 if Elle Fanning Refused the Role

Pretty much everything that comes out of this dudes mouth is utter pretentious bs

@Grimwood At least he's contributed more to the gaming world, than coming onto a comment section, and giving him abuse.

@Grimwood I agree, at this point he's making games to meet Hollywood actors

@Zisssou Thinking someone is pretentious is abuse now?

@themightyant
I have learned more random crap from Kojima's games than pretty much any other piece of media aside from Jeopardy.

Very excited about this; Death Stranding is a modern classic.

@Grimwood Not true, Elle Fanning really is that one of a kind actress. If you would have replaced her in The Neon Demon the whole atmosphere of the movie would have changed. I’m sure the same goes for DS2.

This is why You shouldnt go for hollywood actors if You plan Your game to be a franchise.

Then he's clearly a poor writer.

@PegasusActual93 this is why I watch South Park lol

@Tr3mm0r why? Beyond Two Souls was written for Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, that was a good game.
Death Stranding is a great game too and that had Norman in it.

Who did he get to play Johnny in MGS?

@SolaceCreed How many parts “Beyond Two Souls” has and what it a lore/universe for more games/films coming? I am not saying it is bad for the general quality or whatever. I am just saying that if You pay a real life actor to play in your game YOU ARE GIVING HIM/HER cards to play when after some time you wish to do a sequel.

Grimwood's remark might not be that far off the mark.
Having written for the screen space for over a decade, and having seen how a video game script closely resembles a screenplay in its focus on dialogue and action description, there is nothing particular that an actor brings that can (or should) be detailed in a written work.
As a newbie in film school, I often remember a student would say they are writing such and such part for an actor in mind, but then when it came to how that translated into the actual work, the only anecdote they could give is, "then they would say this line like this..." Well, none of that translates across a script that any actor would read. So it's hard to imagine a script having to be rewritten if a said actor wasn't involved. Therefore, it does feel a bit pretentious, like something amateur filmmakers and writers frequently say when talking about a script.
Of course it's possible that Kojima writes scripts unlike anyone has ever read and somehow has found a way to detail a specific actor's nuances into a script, but then as a creative I'd argue that doesn't really give an actor the ability for creative input.

@Grimwood hmmmmm so you was around for the era of Peter Molynuex, im guessing.

The fact that Kojma actually delivers and we've had so many loud mouth people talk a load of rubbish and never deliver and Peter Molyneux the biggest one of them all. Never delivered and always talked a load of bs.

@amersga there are many, many, many films which were made and those characters were written with an actor already in mind.

You here it all the time from top class writers.

The one from top of my head was Aladin.

The genie was written for Robin Williams and they actually came out and said that they didn't know what they would of done if he turned it down.

Plus Kojmia is an absolute beast when it comes to films, he probably saw her in many different roles and wrote the character based on the way she acts and how she acts and the roles she's played.

@Keyblade-Dan Welcome to 2023.

@amersga I can see that. I doubt actors have much, if any, creative input with Kojima scripts. They feel so completely him, his mind even working with whole development teams.
BUT he is an artist where that's likely for the best. He knows what he wants to say to a level beyond most at an insane detail.
He can be a tad full of himself at times, but he has the work to back it up.

@Grimwood EVERYTHING.

This man has surprassed Peter Molyneux as biggest hyperbolic smoke-seller of the industry.

I hope blowing your budget mocapping hollywood b-listers doesn't become a trend.

PS. Konami was right all along.