Hideo Kojima isn’t directing the Death Stranding movie, but he is “deeply involved” in it

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Hideo Kojima is perhaps one of many greatest movie nerds round, however he will not be directing the movie adaptation of Loss of life Stranding.


That does not imply he is not concerned with the movie, although. Should you’re remotely acquainted with Kojima, you have to be conscious that the man simply loves films. So it isn’t notably stunning to listen to that the online game maker has “deeply concerned,” himself within the movie. Over the weekend, Kojima took to his English language Twitter to make clear his particular involvement within the movie, writing, “Simply to be clear, I’m deeply concerned in producing, supervising, plotting, look, design and content material of the movie adaptation of DS, simply not in control of directing.”


Whereas he may attempt to make his video games resemble movie as carefully as attainable, I am probably not that shocked he is not directing the mission itself – would you belief Kojima to direct a function movie? From his tweet it does sound probably that the movie will keep true to the world of Loss of life Stranding if he is that concerned in so many elements of it, although it nonetheless is not any clearer if it is a direct adaptation or not.


The movie adaptation of Loss of life Stranding was introduced final 12 months, however there are only a few particulars on the mission because it stands. We all know that Hammerstone Studios is helming the movie, with Kojima Productions on govt producing duties. Kojima himself was additionally confirmed to be producing the movie, alongside Hammerstone Studios founder Alex Lebovici. Casting the movie would clearly be fairly straightforward, as Sam is performed by Norman Reedus, who’s higher identified for his movie and TV work anyway.


Loss of life Stranding 2 can be within the works in the intervening time, additionally introduced final 12 months, which is able to see the return of each Reedus and his co-star Lea Seydoux. Unsurprisingly once more, the trailer does not actually inform you all that a lot as that is Kojima we’re speaking about. However you possibly can count on it to come back to PS5, sooner or later anyway.