Following his departure from Konami, Hideo Kojima launched an independent career. It seems to have been a smart choice though, as he recently revealed, it wasn’t easy to convince others that it was possible.
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After premiering at this year’s Tribeca Festival, the documentary Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds has found a home at Disney+.
The documentary will debut exclusively on Disney+ in the Spring of 2024.
A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring appearances from visionary artists, this visually captivating documentary gives a rare insight into Hideo Kojima’s creative process as he launches his own independent studio after leaving Konami, where he’d shot to fame as the head honcho behind the Metal Gear Solid series.
The journey takes in the creation of the game Death Stranding, which many of the documentary’s cast played a part in in some way or another. It’s due to be turned into a movie itself in the future.
Directed and photographed by Glen Milner Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds features a star-studded cast from movies, music, and games that include George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road), Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Grimes, Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal), Woodkid, Churches, Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil), Léa Seydoux (Inglorious Basterds) and Shinya Tsukamoto.
Kojima appeared at The Game Awards yesterday alongside Nope and Get Out director Jordan Peele as they unveiled the new game OD which stars Sophia Lillis (IT), Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier
Following his departure from Konami, Hideo Kojima launched an independent career. It seems to have been a smart choice though, as he recently revealed, it wasn’t easy to convince others that it was possible.
Hideo Kojima says he was "opposed by everyone" when starting his own company eight years ago.
Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's newly-announced game,, seems to have a lot in common with his canceled project. Announced at The Game Awards 2023,, like almost all Kojima's games before it, immediately attracted a lot of speculation. His reputation precedes him, but it's well deserved. Kojima is credited with the invention of the modern stealth game in 1987's, and all his other games since have attempted to break boundaries in a variety of different ways.
Hideo Kojima - the famed video game director behind Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding - has reflected on his own studio’s eighth birthday with some sage advice from Guillermo Del Toro.
Death Stranding is coming to the big screen, thanks to a partnership between indie film studio A24 and game developer Kojima Productions. The announcement comes ahead of the Hideo Kojima-helmed studio's 8th anniversary. The film adaptation will focus on the mysteries surrounding the titular apocalyptic event that brought the nightmarish creatures called BT into the living world, blurring the lines between the dead and the living through a portal. Instead of a direct translation of the divisive 2019 video game, the film will serve as a companion piece that further expands the solitary universe. The world of Death Stranding is also set to return in DS2, a sequel announced at last year's The Game Awards.
Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding live-action movie adaptation is really happening, and now A24, the studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, Uncut Gems, and Hereditary, is involved. Kojima Productions and A24 announced their collaboration on Thursday, offering new details about their Death Stranding movie and further reinforcing that, yeah, this this is actually happening.
With Hideo Kojima having unveiled his studio’s next game, OD, recently during The Game Awards 2023, the Internet has already gotten to work to decode hidden messages that the developer typically likes to sneak into his announcements. The TGA 2023 trailer for OD has been discovered to feature an interesting message, potentially nodding at Kojima’s cancelled Silent Hills.
is the newest exciting game project from veteran game director Hideo Kojima, and it looks like it will be getting some major acting talent on board. Kojima's pedigree gives the game the ability to attract some real star power, with the legacy of the series and making a strong testament to his creative abilities. Information about is still fairly limited, but some key actors who will feature in it have already been revealed, along with some hints at what the game could be like.
Eagle-eyed fans have spotted several apparent references to the Silent Hill series in the first trailer for Hideo Kojima's Xbox project OD.
Hideo Kojima appears to have snuck a reference to Konami‘s Silent Hill series into his teaser trailer for OD.
As promised by host Geoff Keighley ahead of the event, The Game Awards 2023 featured a lot of new game announcements (61, to be exact), with Kojima's OD topping press coverage out of all the game showed, according to an analysis by FanCensus.
Hideo Kojima turned up at The Game Awards 2023 to reveal OD, the Xbox-exclusive project that he has been working on. It is, shall we say, quite… odd.