{"id":2802,"date":"2022-06-27T22:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/the-boys-showrunner-wants-to-team-up-with-hideo-kojima-to-make-a-game\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:25:37","slug":"the-boys-showrunner-wants-to-team-up-with-hideo-kojima-to-make-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/the-boys-showrunner-wants-to-team-up-with-hideo-kojima-to-make-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boys showrunner wants to team up with Hideo Kojima to make a game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The showrunner and lead villain of Amazon’s superhero spoof series The Boys<\/a> are eager to have it made into a videogame\u2014and they want none other than Metal Gear<\/a> and Death Stranding<\/a> mastermind Hideo Kojima to make it happen.<\/p>\n

The idea came up over the weekend, when Kojima revealed that he’d actually been conceptualizing a dark superhero game of his own, but opted to shelve it after seeing The Boys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I watched a few episodes that were delivered at the time when I was about to start a project that I had been warming up for a long time, and put it on hold because the concept was similar (different settings and tricks),” he tweeted. “A buddy (male\/female) thing with a special detective squad facing off against legendary heroes behind the scenes. I was thinking of Mads as the lead.”<\/p>\n

Mads, of course, is Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in Death Stranding and would probably make an outstanding dark hero, or villain, or anything, really.<\/p>\n

Kojima clarified what he had in mind in a follow-up tweet<\/a>, writing, “Today, when superheroes continue to be mass-produced in the entertainment industry, this drama was to be a radical hard-boiled action film, neither hero nor villain, with an astonishingly black joke setup and a worldview that is the opposite of what we are used to.”<\/p>\n

It sounds like an excellent idea, and it attracted the attention of none other than Eric Kripke, the showrunner for The Boys. “Please come make a #TheBoys game,” Kripke tweeted in response to Kojima. “We can team up and conquer! Huge fan, btw.”<\/p>\n

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Please come make a #TheBoys game. We can team up and conquer! Huge fan, btw. #TheBoysTVJune 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

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And in response to that, Anthony Starr, who plays chief lunatic bad guy Homelander on the show, tweeted, “Second that notion<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Kojima hasn’t responded to Kripke or Starr yet, and the likelihood of Kojima taking on a licensed Amazon game seems extremely remote at best: He is apparently already working on a new Death Stranding<\/a>, for one thing, and Amazon has its own game development studio anyway. But the idea of a Boys game headed up by a proven creator who’s not afraid to get weird has some serious potential, and if Kojima was already thinking about something like that anyway, well\u2014dare to dream, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Alas, Kojima said in a later tweet that he’s since watched a few more episodes of The Boys, and also seemed to put a little more distance between the show and what he had in mind. “The concept was the same, a black ‘anti-hero; story in which a superhero and a human face off,” he tweeted. “But the setting, gimmicks, and tone were very different from what I had in mind for my previous project.”<\/p>\n

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I watched the first eight episodes of season one of THE BOYS. The concept was the same, a black “anti-hero” story in which a superhero and a human face off, but the setting, gimmicks, and tone were very different from what I had in mind for my previous project. pic.twitter.com\/sekEiL6agEJune 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

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See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Thanks, Gamerant<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]The Boys showrunner wants to team up with Hideo Kojima to make a game<\/p>\n

The showrunner and lead villain of Amazon’s superhero spoof series The Boys<\/a> are eager to have it made into a videogame\u2014and they want none other than Metal Gear<\/a> and Death Stranding<\/a> mastermind Hideo Kojima to make it happen.<\/p>\n

The idea came up over the weekend, when Kojima revealed that he’d actually been conceptualizing a dark superhero game of his own, but opted to shelve it after seeing The Boys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I watched a few episodes that were delivered at the time when I was about to start a project that I had been warming up for a long time, and put it on hold because the concept was similar (different settings and tricks),” he tweeted. “A buddy (male\/female) thing with a special detective squad facing off against legendary heroes behind the scenes. I was thinking of Mads as the lead.”<\/p>\n

Mads, of course, is Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in Death Stranding and would probably make an outstanding dark hero, or villain, or anything, really.<\/p>\n

Kojima clarified what he had in mind in a follow-up tweet<\/a>, writing, “Today, when superheroes continue to be mass-produced in the entertainment industry, this drama was to be a radical hard-boiled action film, neither hero nor villain, with an astonishingly black joke setup and a worldview that is the opposite of what we are used to.”<\/p>\n

It sounds like an excellent idea, and it attracted the attention of none other than Eric Kripke, the showrunner for The Boys. “Please come make a #TheBoys game,” Kripke tweeted in response to Kojima. “We can team up and conquer! Huge fan, btw.”<\/p>\n

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Please come make a #TheBoys game. We can team up and conquer! Huge fan, btw. #TheBoysTVJune 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

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See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And in response to that, Anthony Starr, who plays chief lunatic bad guy Homelander on the show, tweeted, “Second that notion<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Kojima hasn’t responded to Kripke or Starr yet, and the likelihood of Kojima taking on a licensed Amazon game seems extremely remote at best: He is apparently already working on a new Death Stranding<\/a>, for one thing, and Amazon has its own game development studio anyway. But the idea of a Boys game headed up by a proven creator who’s not afraid to get weird has some serious potential, and if Kojima was already thinking about something like that anyway, well\u2014dare to dream, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Alas, Kojima said in a later tweet that he’s since watched a few more episodes of The Boys, and also seemed to put a little more distance between the show and what he had in mind. “The concept was the same, a black ‘anti-hero; story in which a superhero and a human face off,” he tweeted. “But the setting, gimmicks, and tone were very different from what I had in mind for my previous project.”<\/p>\n

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I watched the first eight episodes of season one of THE BOYS. The concept was the same, a black “anti-hero” story in which a superhero and a human face off, but the setting, gimmicks, and tone were very different from what I had in mind for my previous project. pic.twitter.com\/sekEiL6agEJune 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

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See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Thanks, Gamerant<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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