The previews for Death Stranding encapsulated Kojima’s obsession with Hollywood and filmmaking. Kojima relaunched his studio independently after leaving Konami in 2015 and reunited with del Toro and Reedus on Death Stranding. (“playable teaser”), which Kojima codirected with del Toro, and which also featured Reedus.
These fears recalled the cancellation of Kojima’s cult-classic horror game Silent Hills by his publisher, Konami, in 2015, despite the 2014 release of a demo for the game titled P.T. But the gameplay remained a mystery, so video game critics wondered whether Death Stranding would ever exist as anything more than a series of cutscenes made for a strange, unfulfilled project. The earliest previews revealed clips from cinematic cutscenes: Norman Reedus cradles a baby while sobbing on a beach of gray sand, Mikkelsen writhes in a black viscous substance, Guillermo del Toro scurries through sewers in a city under siege. Kojima seemed to be making a movie rather than a video game. This was the coolest thing.”įor three years before the game’s release in November, Kojima hyped Death Stranding on the strength of the tearful performances from the high-profile actors he cast. “Never mind all the films that I’ve done that I thought he’d find cool. “My son is a big gamer, and when he heard I was having a meeting with Hideo, he was like, Daaaaaaaad! It was like the coolest thing he’d ever heard,” Mikkelsen said. It’s the latest release from Hideo Kojima, the Japanese designer who created the Metal Gear Solid series. To his own amazement, his latest star turn comes in a leading role in Death Stranding, an open-world adventure video game starring several prominent actors in motion-capture performances.
Hannibal Lecter in the NBC series Hannibal. “The last thing I did was Pac-Man, but that’s a few years ago.” Mikkelsen has appeared in movies like Casino Royale, Doctor Strange, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and played Dr. “I’m not a big gamer,” the Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen said in a recent interview with GQ.
The following essay contains massive, world-ending spoilers for Death Stranding.
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