Hideo Kojima set aside superhero project for being too close to Amazon’s The Boys

Hideo Kujima revealed that he put aside the dark superhero project he thought of creating after finding it was very similar to one he already had. The BoysIt is the third season of Amazon’s series,.

In series of tweets, Kojima revealed that the project — which may have been a film, rather than a game — would have been “a buddy (male/female) thing with a special detective squad facing off against legendary heroes behind the scenes.” The Boys This comic, based on Garth Ennis’s and Darick Robson’s comic, shows a group of undercover vigilantes taking down a corrupt, corporate-owned supervillain enterprise.

“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,” Kojima revealed. “I was thinking of Mads as the lead,” he said, referring to his Death Stranding star and man-crush Mads Mikkelsen. Kojima: When? It is notThinking of Mads

“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,” Kojima said. Kojima Productions is a studio that Kojima had long envisioned as a filmmaker. says it is exploring “various possibilities with games, movies, and music.”

“The concept was the same, a black ‘anti-hero’ story in which a superhero and a human face off,” Kojima said a little later, after catching up with the eight-episode first season. “But the setting, gimmicks, and tone [of The Boys] were very different from what I had in mind for my previous project.”

This maybe-Mads-starring movie didn’t see production. “Well, what I had planned stayed in my mind only, so I didn’t incur any cost for labor, material, research, or anything like that,” Kojima said.

Kojima Productions currently works on a game for Xbox Game Studios. A second game could also be in the pipeline that might lead to a sequel. Death Stranding.