Hideo Kojima has revealed that his deliberate film adaptation of Dying Stranding is not going to be a large Hollywood blockbuster affair, and he’s not even sure whether or not the movie will function protagonist Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus) or somebody fully recent.
Talking in an interview on IGN, Kojima-san had the next to say:
I used to be on video calls with a lot of individuals in Hollywood each week starting final 12 months, and never only for Dying Stranding. I acquired a number of presents, however my intention from the beginning was by no means to make a blockbuster movie. Alex Lebovici from Hammerstone Studios shared my imaginative and prescient on the subject of that.
There have been a number of pitches to make a large-scale film with well-known actors and flashy explosions, however what good would explosions be in Dying Stranding? Earning profits isn’t one thing I’m centered on in any respect, both. I’m aiming for a extra arthouse method, and the one one who supplied to make a movie like that was Alex Lebovici, which makes me suppose he’s a quite uncommon sort.
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We haven’t fairly determined that but. The failure of movie diversifications of video games from some time again has led to a number of motion pictures that cater to avid gamers, proper? That’s why they’ve the identical form of look as a recreation. I don’t need the Dying Stranding film to be like that. Moderately, I’m taking the method of fixing and evolving the world of Dying Stranding in a method that fits movie nicely.
Dying Stranding 2 was introduced throughout The Sport Awards 2022, and is at present in manufacturing for PS5. Past that, Kojima has one other recreation within the works, which he hopes to showcase sooner or later in 2023.
[Source – IGN]