Kojima put project similar to The Boys TV series ‘on hold’
Game maker Hideo Kojima said he put a project on hold because the concept was similar to that of TV series The Boys. Kojima intended to cast actor Mads Mikkelsen in the lead role.
Kojima says he watched some episodes of The Boys when that Amazon Prime Video series came out in 2019. In their own words he was then about to embark on a project he had been thinking about for a long time. Due to the similar concept, he decided to put the project on hold.
The TV series The Boys is about a world in which superheroes use their powers under the care of a commercial company. They present themselves as heroes to the public, but behind the scenes, the superheroes and the company abuse their powers. A group of civilians find out and take on the corrupted superheroes.
According to Kojima the concept of his project similar, but the setting was ‘very different’. He talks about ‘dark story’, in which a human takes on a superhero. He also talks about a team of special detectives who take on legendary heroes ‘behind the scenes’. According to Kojima, the leading role is reserved for Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. It also plays an important role in Death Stranding, Kojima’s latest game.
Whether Kojima plans to ever take up the project again is unknown. The game maker does not clarify this. It is not clear whether it was a game or another media project. Kojima Productions opened a division at the end of last year that will make TV series and films. In his recent tweets, the Japanese only speaks of a ‘project’.
As far as we know, Kojima Productions is currently working on a successor to Death Stranding and in collaboration with Microsoft on an Xbox game that uses cloud technology. That must be a ‘completely new’ game that ‘no one has ever experienced or seen before’.
According to leaker Tom Henderson, Kojima Productions is working on it horror game Overdose with actress Margaret Qualley, who plays Mama in Death Stranding. Henderson thinks Overdose is the game being made in partnership with Microsoft. That project would originally conceived as exclusive to Google Stadia, but not continued by Google.
Trailer of Amazon series The Boys. Kojima’s project would have a similar concept.
Mads Mikkelsen and Margaret Qualley in Death Stranding