Still A Concept, Already All-Star: Kojima’s Metal Gear Successor Physint Snags Actors From Furiosa, Godzilla Minus One, And Train to Busan

Hideo Kojima popped the lid (just a little) on Physint, his action-espionage project that is very intentionally giving off Metal Gear energy. It happened during Kojima Productions 10th anniversary event, Beyond The Strand, and while the studio spread the love across a bunch of projects, Physint quietly stole the show with its first cast reveals and a poster that is begging for fan theories.

Physint: finally some faces

Kojima says Physint is still in the conceptual phase, but he did lock in three cast members:

• Charlee Fraser (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)
• Ma Dong-seok (Train To Busan)
• Minami Hamabe (Godzilla Minus One)

They also showed an in-engine look at Hamabe, and it looked pretty stunning. If this is the baseline, the tech is already doing serious work.

The poster, the rifle, and the very Kojima hinting

Kojima Productions rolled out the first poster: a shadowy figure gripping a suppressed rifle, a shadowy building looming behind. Big Metal Gear vibes. The figure’s face is hidden, which of course set the internet to guessing it is Robert Pattinson. That speculation is fueled by the fact Kojima met Pattinson at Cannes and later teased they talked about "things I can’t really say." No confirmation, but Kojima knows exactly how to pour gasoline on a guess.

The poster tagline reads "Here Comes The Feeling" — which is the final track on Asia’s self-titled debut album. Kojima already posted a screenshot of that song earlier this month, and he shared the Physint poster on Instagram with the same track playing. That same Asia album also includes "Only Time Will Tell," a song that turned up in the Metal Gear Solid 5 soundtrack. Fans are reading all that as a nudge toward an ’80s setting, a la The Phantom Pain. Nothing official, but the breadcrumbs are very on-brand.

Everything else Kojima showed at Beyond The Strand

Physint was not the only thing on stage. We also got a short new look at the horror game OD, first peeks at the Death Stranding anime, an update on the Death Stranding movie, and a new AR game collaboration between Kojima Productions and Niantic Spatial. And in the most Kojima Productions sentence imaginable, the studio also unveiled its own sake and a credit card. Yes, really.

Kojima on trailers: no more bait-and-switch

Kojima also touched on his approach to marketing going forward. He says the era of trailer trickery — the kind people associate with Metal Gear Solid 2 or The Last of Us Part 2 — is behind him. Instead, he prefers to carefully seed real information over time.

"I deliberately drip-feed those kinds of spoilers."

So, where does that leave Physint? Still early, still mysterious, but now with a cast, a mood, and a soundtrack needle-drop doing a lot of heavy lifting. It is not much — and also exactly enough to kick off months of extremely Kojima speculation.