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.
This comes from Kojima’s recent extensive 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 world is weird and interesting and 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.
Kojima also says that he and producer Alex Lebovici, who produced that 2020 Bill and Ted movie, are more interested in making an arthouse film than a Hollywood blockbuster.
The interview covers a lot more than the movie, also picking at why Kojima “completely rewrote” Death Stranding 2 after the pandemic. There’s plenty else I haven’t mentioned, so do 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.
