'Metal Gear Solid' creator Hideo Kojima wants to make a movie

2 May 2017

'Metal Gear Solid' creator Hideo Kojima is ambitious to shoot a film.

Hideo Kojima

The 52-year-old video game designer is interested in making the move into movies but admits he doesn't know he will be able to do it as he's so busy making his new game 'Death Stranding'.

Speaking at the Tribeca Games Festival this weekend, Kojima said: "It's not likely to happen soon, or possibly ever. I love movies, so definitely one day, I would love to. But right now, it's impossible. At least until I finish 'Death Stranding', it's impossible."

Kojima is friends with several Hollywood directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Nicolas Winding-Refn and Kyle Cooper, who have encouraged him to take the plunge and have a career change but he is worried his creative approach could mean that if he started directing a film he'd never finish it.

He said: "I love films too much that maybe if I start making a movie I would never finish it. People tell me, 'Kojima, you're too demanding of movies. You always find something that you will want to fix and you will never finish a movie.' "

Kojima's brainchild 'Metal Gear Solid' is coming to the big screen under the stewardship of 'Kong: Skull Island' director Jordan Vogt-Roberts.

His new adventure 'Death Stranding' is shrouded in mystery so far but Kojima has spilled that it is inspired by Japanese author Kobo Abe's work and will, in essence, be an action game.

Kojima - who is the director of Kojima Productions - said: "There's a Japanese author I am a huge fan of called Kobo Abe. He has a short novel called 'Rope' in which he makes a definition, a statement: the first tool mankind made was a stick. It was made to keep away bad things. It's a weapon. The next tool created by mankind was rope. The rope is not to keep away bad things. On the contrary, it's a tool used to keep good things close to you, to tie good things close to you. Sticks and ropes are some of the tools most used by mankind even these days. In most games you see that are online multiplayer or co-op - or even single player - the communication is through sticks. In this game you will be able to use what will be the equivalent of sticks. But I also want people to use what will be the equivalent of ropes."