The live-action version of Hideo Kojima‘s Death Stranding has found a director, in the form of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski, who will also write the script for the movie.
The strange and surreal world we know and love from the video game is being brought to life by A24 and Kojima Productions.
Kojima himself has acknowledged that adapting the game will be “quite difficult”, saying: “It’s easier to adapt it into a TV series, like The Last of Us. It’s quite difficult to adapt a 50-60 hour game like Death Stranding into a 2-3 hour movie.”
He’s also admitted the story won’t fit into two hours, so I’m really curious as to how this is going to play out. I suppose splitting the movie into two parts isn’t an option, so cuts in the story are going to have to be made somewhere!
The game follows main protagonist Sam Porter Bridges (originally played by actor Norman Reedus) as he makes often large and heavy deliveries across a post-apocalyptic terrain, whilst having to content with dark spirit-type creatures and time-warping rain.
The original game has proven to be a hit, which “challenges players to reconnect a fractured society after the cataclysmic ‘Death Stranding’ event. This has opened a doorway between the living and the dead, leading to creatures from the afterlife roaming the fallen world marred by a desolate society. Carrying the disconnected remnants of humanity’s future in his hands, players embody Sam Bridges as he embarks on a mission to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America.”
When I first played Death Stranding, I was in quite a dark place mentally, and to be completely honest, I struggled with it a lot. Going back to it later, I enjoyed the game a lot more; like, REALLY enjoyed it.
I think it could potentially be a great movie… and, we know for a fact that when it comes to book/game adaptations, nothing can be as bad as The Dark Tower.
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