The Matrix has had a weird history with games, and as it turns out, even the games that didn’t get made have a strange history behind them. It recently came to light that the Wachowski sisters, directors of The Matrix, once approached Konami to pitch a game based on the movie to Hideo Kojima, but were quickly shot down. As surprising as that might have been for fans of The Matrix, perhaps no one was as surprised as Kojima himself, who says that the offer was never even brought up to him.
Back in 1999, just months after the release of The Matrix, NextGen magazine reported that Kojima and the Wachowski sisters had been meeting about making a game based on the movie, but that nothing ever came of it. Following up on that report, Time Extension recently spoke to Christopher Bergstresser, Konami’s former vice president of licensing, about what exactly happened when the directors approached Konami executives Kazumi Kitaue and Aki Saito.
