Dying Stranding is coming to the large display screen, due to a partnership between indie movie studio A24 and sport developer Kojima Productions. The announcement comes forward of the Hideo Kojima-helmed studio’s eighth anniversary. The movie adaptation will deal with the mysteries surrounding the titular apocalyptic occasion that introduced the nightmarish creatures known as BT into the residing world, blurring the strains between the useless and the residing by a portal. As an alternative of a direct translation of the divisive 2019 online game, the movie will function a companion piece that additional expands the solitary universe. The world of Dying Stranding can be set to return in DS2, a sequel introduced ultimately 12 months’s The Sport Awards.
“A24 was born into this world about 10 years in the past, their presence is singular throughout the trade, they’re like no different,” Kojima stated in a weblog publish. “The intention is that our viewers won’t solely be followers of the video games, however our movie might be for anybody who loves cinema. We’re making a Dying Stranding universe that has by no means been seen earlier than, achievable solely by the medium of movie, it will likely be born.” Experiences of an adaptation surfaced final 12 months, with Hammerstone Studios — finest recognized for Barbarian — connected to provide, although now it is unclear whether or not the workforce might be concerned in any approach. Kojima, however, might be ‘deeply concerned’ with the creation of the film — supervising, artwork, plotting, and content material — however will not be directing it. Whereas not explicitly talked about, he is already received his fingers full with Dying Stranding 2 and OD, his horror collaboration with filmmaker Jordan Peele. Neither have introduced a launch window but.
For the uninitiated, A24 is the studio behind acclaimed arthouse movies like The Lighthouse, the Oscar-winning Every thing All over the place All at As soon as, Uncut Gems, the brand new horror flick Discuss to Me, and extra. For the time being, there are not any particulars on the forged and crew, however the unique sport featured a variety of A-list Hollywood actors, which was instrumental in gross sales — moreover the legendary Kojima’s namesake, after all.
The sport starred Norman Reedus (The Strolling Lifeless) as Sam Porter Bridges, a courier tasked with reconnecting the final survivors of a post-apocalyptic America, which fell sufferer to an extinction occasion, resulting in otherworldly forces ravaging the residing world. The post-apocalyptic world has its personal guidelines and phenomena like ‘Timefall,’ which refers to rainfall that causes all natural matter to age, forcing each human being to put on raincoats and carry round oddly formed umbrellas to forestall publicity. The sport additionally starred Mads Mikkelsen as Clifford Unger, Léa Seydoux as Fragile, filmmakers Nicolas Winding Refn and Guillermo Del Toro, Tommie Earl Jenkins, and Troy Baker because the lead antagonist Higgs.
Kojima Productions can be bringing the documentary Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds to the general public eye by releasing it on Disney+ within the American Spring 2024. It largely focuses on Kojima’s course of as he launched his unbiased studio in 2015 and the creation of Dying Stranding, following his cut up from Konami — the Japanese studio the place he helmed the Steel Gear Stable sequence of video games.
At the moment, there isn’t a launch window for the Dying Stranding film.
