Hideo Kojima discusses WME, Hollywood, and his next creative phase

Kojima News 🚨 In a just released @Variety interview Hideo Kojima Talks ‘Death Stranding’ Movie, Signing With WME for His Next Phase in Hollywood.

In the September 2024 interview, Kojima explained how independence changed his options. During his three decades at Konami, outside filmmaking opportunities were limited by his responsibilities at the company, and the games he created belonged to Konami.

After establishing an independent studio in late 2015, he chose to make a game first for the fans awaiting his next project. Owning the resulting intellectual property gave Kojima Productions more freedom to expand it.

Signing with WME fits his longer-term ambition to collaborate with talent worldwide on games, films, and other digital work. He described this as a later creative phase, building on the original game and its expansion into other media.

For the Death Stranding film, Kojima was supervising the story rather than directing while balancing his game projects.

Source: https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/hideo-kojima-death-stranding-movie-hollywood-wme-1236157008/

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