They haven’t decided whether it’ll include characters from the game
Death Strandingdirector Hideo Kojima has claimed his upcoming Death Stranding movie is “taking a direction that nobody has tried before with a movie adaptation of a game”, arguing that other attempts to wring movies out of game-ies have failed because they “cater to gamers”. His will be different, he says, because he’s “taking the approach of changing and evolving the world of Death Stranding in a way that suits film well”.
He also says there’s “no real need” to turn games into films, which is a true and enjoyable acknowledgement from someone who is doing that.
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This comes from Kojima’s recentextensive interview with IGN, and it’s worth quoting the snippets above in full.
He also mentions that they “haven’t decided” whether it’ll include characters from the game or not, so yeah, they might be going a fair ways off-piste.
In fairness, if you are going to make a movie out of a videogame, this does sound like the right approach. Death Stranding’s worldis weird and interestingand part of me wants to see more of it, especially if Kojima is less hands on with the movie’s dialogue and the whole thing wraps up within two hours. The other part of me knows neither will turn out to be true.
The interview covers a lot more than the movie, also picking at why Kojima “completely rewrote"Death Stranding 2after the pandemic. There’s plenty else I haven’t mentioned, sodo have a read yourself.
Death Stranding 2 is due sometime in the future, hopefully before the next pandemic means Kojima has to rewrite everything again.
