Hideo Kojima Reveals the Cast for His Spy Game Physint

Hideo Kojima has put faces to his next project. At the Kojima Productions 10th anniversary event on Tuesday, the studio unveiled poster art and the cast for Physint, Kojima’s new action espionage game.

The game will star Australian actress and model Charlee Fraser, seen in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Korean American actor and producer Don Lee of Train to Busan and Eternals, and Japanese actress Minami Hamabe, known for Godzilla Minus One. Even so, Physint remains in early planning, since the studio is currently focused on its horror game OD KNOCK. First announced in January 2024, Physint is a PlayStation collaboration that will ramp up once work on Death Stranding 2 wraps. Kojima has described it as an effort to dissolve the line between games and film.

The anniversary event brought other news too. The studio shared more about OD KNOCK, a horror game made with Unreal Engine and Epic’s MetaHuman tools in partnership with Xbox Game Studios, whose teaser features Sophia Lillis and which has Kojima working alongside filmmaker Jordan Peele. There was also Death Stranding Mosquito, a working title for an adult animated feature set in the Death Stranding universe, directed by Hiroshi Miyamoto at ABC Animation Studio with a script by Aaron Guzikowski.

The Death Stranding world keeps expanding beyond games. The original shipped on PlayStation 4 in 2019 before reaching PC and a later Director’s Cut, and a separate live action film is in the works at Hammerstone Studios, with Michael Sarnoski set to write and direct and Ari Aster’s Square Peg among the producers.

My take: Kojima casting screen actors this early tells you how much he still wants games to feel like cinema. Physint is clearly years away, but a spy thriller in his hands is more than enough to keep me patient.