Hideo Kojima Reveals Stunning Facts About His Upcoming Death Stranding Movie; Won’t Be a Regular Hollywood Action Blockbuster

Hideo Kojima is currently hard at work. He has three projects going on simultaneously. One of them is Death Stranding 2, the second is Overdose his Horror game for Xbox, and the third is his upcoming movie based on his own arthouse game Death stranding.

The announcement for the movie came through a while ago. Hideo Kojima informed his fan that he was working on a Death Stranding movie produced by Hammerstone studios, the producers of the recently released psychological horror Barbarian.

Hideo Kojima would have a different approach to Death Stranding movie

Kojima is known to make blockbusters. Most of his games are known to star known actors and have a big budget. Even his upcoming games Dead Stranding 2 and overdose have some big-name actors and expensive technologies backing them.

People who played his last Metal Gear game, the Phantom Pain, would agree that game was no short of a big-budget action movie.

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So it came as a surprise that Hideo Kojima told IGN recently that his upcoming movie which is based on his recent game Death Stranding would not be an action blockbuster with big stars. He says he would be making it at a low scale with an arthouse approach.

He said “There were a lot of pitches to make a large-scale movie with famous actors and flashy explosions, but what good would explosions be in Death Stranding? Making money isn’t something I’m focused on at all, either. I’m aiming for a more arthouse approach, and the only person who offered to make a film like that was Alex Lebovici.”

Death Stranding Movie as a concept calls for an arthouse approach

Yes, this statement from Hideo Kojima is surprising indeed, but those who have played it know that even though the game had a very high budget, it was not a straight-action game. It was something of an art game too.

The Protagonist did not have big action sequences like Snake in metal gear solid. And when it came to combat, it was limited to three punches and a very limited arsenal of weapons.

In fact, Sam “Porter” Bridges who was played by the ever-popular Norman Reedus had a disease called aphenphosmphobia, which is basically a phobia of getting touched by people.

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So he hardly even talked to people in person. It had a star-studded cast, from above mentioned Norman Reedus, Lea Seydoux, Mads Mikkelsen, and even popular filmmakers such as Guillermo Del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn.

Chances are that these are the exact people that would be starring in the movie too. So let us wait and see where this production goes.