Hideo Kojima has mentioned the "third phase" of Kojima Productions for the first time, and he's committed to not dying until it happens.

The Death Stranding and Metal Gear creator sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Variety, published today, in which he talked about about the next steps of his career — and revealed a more direct tie to Hollywood. Kojima has signed with talent agency WME, which the publication describes as his "his liaison in the world of TV and film."

Hideo Kojima has signed with talent agency WME to represent him and help further his TV and film ambitions, check out the details here.

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It’s no secret that star video game developer Hideo Kojima has a deep passion for film and a fascination with Hollywood. While a Death Stranding film adaptation is already in the works at indie powerhouse A24, Kojima is far from finished with his work on the silver screen. He has now signed with agency WME as he prepares his next steps.

At 61 years old, Japanese game developer Hideo Kojima is far from retirement. Instead, the mastermind behind “Death Stranding” and “Metal Gear Solid” is charting a course that will expand his reach beyond the gaming world and into Hollywood as he signs with talent agency WME.

Hideo Kojima's love of film is legendary, and the lengthy cutscenes in his games have led us all to wonder when - not if - he's going to make the jump to Hollywood. But it seems that shift isn't quite so inevitable in Kojima's own mind.

Kojima is deliberately vague about what some of those latter ideas mean, focusing his comments largely on production—i.e., the way a move toward digital TV and film production has generated new similarities in the ways content for both mediums are produced—while also noting that “The assets are digital and can be used either way.