Hideo Kojima has shut down rumours that he was ever asked by The Wachowski Sisters to develop a game for The Matrix, revealing that “No one ever told me such a conversation had taken place”.
In what would have been the most obvious collab ever, legendary video game director Hideo Kojima has shut down recent rumours that the director was asked by the Wachowski Sisters to develop a video game for The Matrix after the original film’s release.
The rumours first started after Konami executive Christopher Bergstresser told Time Extension that the sci-fi directors had set up a meeting with Kojima to discuss the potential of developing a video game adaptation of their 1999 film. “The two of them came in with their concept artist, and effectively, they said to Kojima, ‘We really want you to do the Matrix game. Can you do that?” However, another Konami executive would shut down any further discussions.
Given Kojima’s love for The Matrix and his work on Metal Gear Solid (whose second iteration would follow very similar themes), fans blew up this rumour on social media, leading to Kojima himself addressing the story.
Unfortunately, the video game icon would reject that such conversations ever took place, and that he was unaware that the project was considered.
Taking to X / Twitter, Kojima would write: “I was surprised to see on social media that the Wachowski sisters had ‘offered me a Matrix game project!’ back in 1999. In all these 26 years, no one ever told me such a conversation had taken place,” he’d admit. “At the time, we were mutual fans and exchanged emails. The Matrix hadn’t been released in Japan yet, but I had already seen it in theatres in the U.S. and at a preview screening.”
Kojima would further clarify that while he met the Wachowskis three times in Japan during their promotional tour of The Matrix, “There was no mention of an offer”.
However, the Death Stranding director would throw a bone to those pining over the potential, adding, “At that time, I was already extremely busy with Metal Gear Solid 2 and probably couldn’t have accepted the offer right away. But if someone had told me, maybe there could’ve been a way to make it work.”
While Kojima himself never got to work on an official The Matrix video game, Shiny Entertainment would release Enter the Matrix in 2003. The game would be a success, and the studio would also work on the sequel, Path of Neo, which would be released in 2005.
Developers Monolith Productions would also launch The Matrix Online in 2005, a massively multiplayer online game set in The Matrix universe. While the game would shut down in 2009, the Wachowskis would reveal that everything that happened in it was canon, including Morpheus’ death.
With Kojima’s reputation for curveballs and iconic narratives within video games, one can only imagine how an official collaboration between the visionary directors would unfold.
Besides, with a fifth Matrix film on its way, who’s to say the potential isn’t there in the future?
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