{"id":39405,"date":"2024-11-06T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=39405"},"modified":"2024-11-06T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:08:50","slug":"hideo-kojima-reveals-meeting-with-keanu-reeves-sparking-collaboration-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hideo-kojima-reveals-meeting-with-keanu-reeves-sparking-collaboration-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima reveals meeting with Keanu Reeves, sparking collaboration rumors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recent X post, Kojima Productions founder and game designer Hideo Kojima revealed that he was in a meeting with the actor Keanu Reeves. Coupled with Kojima\u2019s post, Reeves\u2019 past work in games such as Cyberpunk 2077, The Matrix Awakens tech demo, and <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/shadow-generations-will-have-more-alternative-routes-than-previous-titles-in-the-sonic-series-reveals-producer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonic X Shadow Generations<\/a> could indicate that he may have a role in an upcoming Kojima Productions title.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">With Keanu\ud83d\udc4d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jfhHZSyyMT\">pic.twitter.com\/jfhHZSyyMT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/1853991499106828397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Hideo Kojima and Keanu Reeves have been associated with each other. Both of them make an appearance in CD Projekt Red\u2019s Cyberpunk 2077, with Kojima playing the minor role of a braindance producer called Hideyoshi Oshima and Reeves playing main character Johnny Silverhand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Keanu visited Kojima Productions\ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udf08\ud83d\ude0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wBM3cQ7taw\">pic.twitter.com\/wBM3cQ7taw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/1170223627062538243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Keanu Reeves himself visited Kojima Productions in September 2019 &#8211; two months before Death Stranding officially released on the PlayStation 4. In August 2023, Kojima <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwHM4GISun3\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted photos of Reeves and Norman Reedus<\/a> on his Instagram page. Seeing as Reedus played protagonist Sam Bridges in Death Stranding, this led to widespread but unconfirmed speculation that Reeves might be playing a part in a new Kojima project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Kojima\u2019s latest X post with Keanu Reeves has added even more fuel to the rumors about a Reeves-Kojima collaboration. Considering how <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/1570217827055050752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jordan Peele was similarly pictured with Kojima<\/a> roughly a year before their horror game OD was announced, this could turn out to be the case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hideo Kojima posted on X that he met with Keanu Reeves, renewing fans&#8217; hopes that Reeves will be in a future Kojima Productions game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":39409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-39405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hideo Kojima reveals meeting with Keanu Reeves, sparking collaboration rumors\u00a0 - 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