In early 2024, Hideo Kojima set the video game world on fire, when he revealed that he would be returning to the action-espionage genre for a new game called Physint.
Calling it the "culmination" of his life's work, Kojima announced the game during a PlayStation State of Play, as part of a partnership with PlayStation, Sony and Kojima Productions. What's more, there will also be a movie developed with Sony's Columbia Pictures label.
In the time since that announcement, however, we've heard next to nothing about Physint, and via a new interview, it sounds like it'll remain that way for some time.
It's kinda refreshing.
In a new interview with Le Film français, a weekly French magazine dedicated to the film industry, Kojima was asked about his work with A24 for the film adaptation of Death Stranding and whether Kojima himself would like to direct a movie one day.
As translated by a user on ResetEra, Kojima shared that he's had "so many offers" to direct a movie, but he also has Physint in development, along with assistance on the Death Stranding film.
"That will take me another five or six years. But maybe after that, I could...