Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves visited Kojima Productions on Saturday, according to a series of tweets by Kojima himself.
The Matrix and John Wick star, who Kojima referred to in his Tweets as “our Keanu,” posed for photographs and signed a wall in the studio’s kitchen area.
In aJapanese Tweet, Kojima said his staff were “overjoyed” by Reeves’ appearance.
It’s not clear what the purpose for the actor’s visit to Japan was, but he wasspotted earlier in the weekby a tourist visiting Teshima Art Museum on the island of Teshima, Kagawa Prefecture.
Kojima Productions’ next game,PS4exclusiveDeath Stranding, features a cast of high-profile actors including Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Lindsay Wagner and director Guillermo del Toro.
Other celebrities who have visited the studio in the past have also been known to have taken on roles in the game, includingGame Awards host Geoff Keighley.
He gave us the message on our kitchen board! Thank you so much, everyone at our studio loved it! The moment hades became heaven.👍🌈🦀🐋🐬🐟💀👶✋pic.twitter.com/K37pPOvnJI
Kojima himself alsosecretly recorded a part for Remedy Entertainment’s Controlduring a visit earlier this year.
Reeves famously appeared at E3 2019 in Juneto reveal he was to star in CD Projket Red’sCyberpunk 2077as a key supporting character.
Reeves plays “legendary rockerboy” Johnny Silverhand. In a follow-up interview, the actor said hedoesn’t think games need Hollywood stars to legitimise the medium.
“If anything, I’d say it’s gone the other way,” he toldthe BBC. “It’s more of the influence gaming’s had on… let’s call it Hollywood. Certainly with the Marvel universe, right?
“But then gaming probably started in the beginning with Hollywood, so I think these technologies have been talking to each other.”
Kojima also revealed this week thatDeath Stranding will include a very easy mode targeted at “movie fans”.
