Death Stranding Movie in Development From A24 and Hideo Kojima

Death Stranding is coming to the large display screen, due to a partnership between indie movie studio A24 and recreation developer Kojima Productions. The announcement comes forward of the Hideo Kojima-helmed studio’s eighth anniversary. The movie adaptation will concentrate on the mysteries surrounding the titular apocalyptic occasion that introduced the nightmarish creatures referred to as BT into the residing world, blurring the traces between the useless and the residing by way of a portal. As an alternative of a direct translation of the divisive 2019 online game, the movie will function a companion piece that additional expands the solitary universe. The world of Dying Stranding can also be set to return in DS2, a sequel introduced finally yr’s The Sport Awards.

“A24 was born into this world about 10 years in the past, their presence is singular throughout the trade, they’re like no different,” Kojima stated in a blog post. “The intention is that our viewers is not going to solely be followers of the video games, however our movie shall be for anybody who loves cinema. We’re making a Death Stranding universe that has by no means been seen earlier than, achievable solely by way of the medium of movie, it will likely be born.” Reports of an adaptation surfaced final yr, with Hammerstone Studios — finest identified for Barbarian — hooked up to provide, although now it is unclear whether or not the staff shall be concerned in any approach. Kojima, however, shall be ‘deeply concerned’ with the creation of the film — supervising, artwork, plotting, and content material — however won’t be directing it. Whereas not explicitly talked about, he is already acquired his palms full with Death Stranding 2 and OD, his horror collaboration with filmmaker Jordan Peele. Neither have introduced a launch window but.

For the uninitiated, A24 is the studio behind acclaimed arthouse movies like The Lighthouse, the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once, Uncut Gems, the brand new horror flick Talk to Me, and extra. In the meanwhile, there are not any particulars on the forged and crew, however the unique recreation featured a spread of A-list Hollywood actors, which was instrumental in gross sales — moreover the legendary Kojima’s namesake, in fact.

The sport starred Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) as Sam Porter Bridges, a courier tasked with reconnecting the final survivors of a post-apocalyptic America, which fell sufferer to an extinction occasion, resulting in otherworldly forces ravaging the residing world. The post-apocalyptic world has its personal guidelines and phenomena like ‘Timefall,’ which refers to rainfall that causes all natural matter to age, forcing each human being to put on raincoats and carry round oddly formed umbrellas to forestall publicity. The sport additionally starred Mads Mikkelsen as Clifford Unger, Léa Seydoux as Fragile, filmmakers Nicolas Winding Refn and Guillermo Del Toro, Tommie Earl Jenkins, and Troy Baker because the lead antagonist Higgs.

Kojima Productions can also be bringing the documentary Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds to the general public eye by releasing it on Disney+ within the American Spring 2024. It largely focuses on Kojima’s course of as he launched his impartial studio in 2015 and the creation of Dying Stranding, following his break up from Konami — the Japanese studio the place he helmed the Metal Gear Solid sequence of video games.

At the moment, there isn’t any launch window for the Dying Stranding film.