Overview
- Time Extension recounts a late‑1990s meeting in Tokyo where Lana and Lilly Wachowski pitched Kojima directly, with Christopher Bergstresser, Aki Saito, and Konami executive Kazumi Kitaue present.
- Bergstresser says that after Saito translated the request, Kitaue declined on the spot, ending the proposal before it advanced.
- An anonymous former Konami employee told Time Extension that Kojima continued to show strong interest in the project and that members of his team felt immense disappointment.
- Context cited in the coverage notes Metal Gear Solid 2 had entered full-scale development by June 1999 and Kojima was producing Zone of the Enders, offering a plausible reason leadership kept him focused.
- GamesRadar+ summarized the reporting and said it has asked Konami for comment, with no response published at the time of reporting.