LAS VEGAS (AP) – Movie director Guillermo del Toro and video game designer Hideo Kojima had big plans for their top-secret interactive collaboration.
“We had great ideas that I think would have done fantastic,” the “Pacific Rim” filmmaker said on stage Thursday at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Science’s annual D.I.C.E. Summit.
Del Toro and the “Metal Gear Solid” creator reunited for a talk at the 15th annual gathering of elite members of the video game industry. The appearance marked the pair’s first public appearance together since their collaboration, “Silent Hills,” was canceled last year by publisher Konami.
The title was intended to be the next installment in the long-running “Silent Hill” horror franchise and feature “The Walking Dead” actor Norman Reedus. Del Toro and Kojima teased it last year with the release of a mysterious PlayStation 4 demo called “P.T.”
“‘P.T.’ itself was meant to be sort of a decoy,” del Toro said. “We were thinking it would take (players) 10 days, two weeks to solve it. They solved it in three days.”