Hideo Kojima's spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, Physint, doesn't just have a new home at Xbox; it also has a famous face attached to it, with Bill Skarsgard (It, Boy Kills World) playing the lead role. Thanks to Death Stranding 2: On the Beach composer Yoann "Woodkid" Lemoine, Kojima was introduced to Skarsgard, who would later be cast as the yet-to-be-named protagonist of Physint.

"He's been in some excellent films. Directors I know have worked with him and can't praise him enough," Kojima said on a new episode of the Koji 10 radio program. "I wanted to work with him for a long time. Then one day, Bill visited Woodkid's studio. When Bill went to his studio, he saw piles of Kojima Productions merchandise. He said, 'What's this? Why do you have all this!?' Yoann said, 'I worked with them,' and that’s how Yoann introduced us."

Kojima would later travel to Sweden to meet Skarsgard and his family. Skarsgard was a fan of the Metal Gear franchise, and Kojima pitched him the lead role in Physint, which Skarsgard accepted.

It's still early days for Physint, and Kojima says that Skarsgard is eager to get his hands on the game's script so that he can start preparing for the role. "We've finished his scan now. We have to scan actors early, because processing the data takes a long time," Kojima explained. "We'll film the performance much later. But he's so eager he doesn't want to wait. He keeps asking me for the script.

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