Hideo Kojima sparks fan theories by posing with Elijah Wooden and Jordan Peele

Hideo Kojima has posted pictures of himself with Elijah Wooden and Jordan Peele, main followers to take a position whether or not or not the actor and filmmaker are concerned in Dying Stranding 2.

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Kojima posted two pictures of himself to X, one with Wooden and one with Peele merely captioned “With Elijah Wooden” and “With Jordan Peele”. Although it’s not recognized when these conferences occurred, Kojima is sporting the identical shirt in each of the pictures, in order that they seemingly occurred on the identical day.

With Elijah Wooden. pic.twitter.com/nLnvCTfJs6

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) October 10, 2023

With Jordan Peele. pic.twitter.com/1z7lheD2PB

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) October 11, 2023

That is the second time that Kojima and Wooden have met as they initially crossed paths at E3 2018. Then again, Peele appeared on Kojima’s Brain Structure podcast final 12 months to speak in regards to the potential of interactive storytelling.

Within the episode, Peele known as Kojima certainly one of his inventive inspirations and Kojima praised Peele’s movies Get Out, Us and Nope as examples of how cinema nonetheless has the possibility to shock critics and audiences.

Whereas Kojima has been noticed with numerous well-known faces like Alec Baldwin, Grimes and Robert de Niro who haven’t been featured in his video games, followers have wondered whether Wood and Peele will show up in Dying Stranding 2.

For instance, Kojima met with Conan O’Brien so as to add the comic and tv present host to Dying Stranding. He’s a non-playable character who offers the participant an otter hood as a reward for finishing their supply.

Owing to Wooden’s and Peele’s respective involvement within the extra sensible a part of filmmaking, it could be possible that the 2 have talked to Kojima in regards to the progress of Dying Stranding 2 somewhat than confirming a cameo character.

Alternatively, the pictures might simply be the memento from an informal chat between them. The photograph with Wooden was taken outdoors suggesting that the 2 caught one another by likelihood.

However, Peele was stood in entrance of one thing that has the enduring carpet sample from The Shining, which is likely to be situated in Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions which specialises in producing horror movies.

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