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Death Stranding Movie in the Works From Kojima Productions and Barbarian’s Hammerstone Studios
Hideo Kojima had to rewrite Death Stranding 2 due to the pandemic
Death Stranding 2 was revealed this week, and according to Hideo Kojima himself, the game was rewritten due to the pandemic.
When the first Death Stranding launched in 2019, some thought that the enemies you occasionally faced obsessed with stealing packages from one of the few remaining delivery drivers in a post-apocalyptic America was a bit over the top. Then a pandemic hit in 2020, retroactively making the game an incredibly prescient one. So despite Kojima having had the story written prior to the pandemic, he had to completely change it once he experienced it.
“I had the story written before the pandemic, but after experiencing the pandemic, I rewrote the whole thing from scratch,” Kojima told The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley following the reveal of Death Stranding 2. “I also didn’t want to predict any more future, so I rewrote it.”
Hideo Kojima teases Death Stranding 2 at The Game Awards
Hideo Kojima can’t help but tease his next game, this time with some fancy logos
Hideo Kojima just can’t seem to stop teasing his next game, whatever it might be, this time showing off some logos which… well, they look nice, I guess!
At this point I think we all get the deal with Kojima. He’s a bit of a showman, he likes to do things in a way most other people won’t, like pretending his eventually-cancelled Silent Hill game was made by an indie developer. This time, with his next, untitled game, he’s been posting some teasers, like his reveal that Elle Fanning will be in it. His latest tease for this next game? Logos! Nice logos, though.
“Start a new journey,” wrote Kojima on his English Twitter, paired with a logo for something called the Automated Public Assistance Company (the most generic and yet still believable name I’ve ever seen for a fictional company), another logo we’ve seen in previous teases showing what could be a door, and a third logo that kind of looks like an octopus.
Hideo Kojima, man whose body is “made of movies,” unsurprisingly wants to try making some
If you’re familiar with Hideo Kojima’s work, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that he’s pretty interested in actually making a movie one of these days.
As reported by VGC, Kojima recently spoke at the Anan Awards in Japan (via Famitsu), as he one the top honours in the culture category for Death Stranding. At the event, he noted that even though his career has been entirely games focused, “all fields are connected in digital works, so I would like to expand from games to fields such as film and music.”
Music isn’t a hugely surprising thing either, as it’s been a majorly important aspect of all of his titles, including the most recent one Death Stranding. But Kojima being a film love in particular is probably the easiest piece of trivia you could offer about the game developer. His English Twitter quite literally jokingly states “70% of my body is made of movies,” which you could easily say about his games too, with the length of cutscenes they all have.
Cancelled Stadia-exclusive Death Stranding sequel never existed, says Hideo Kojima
Despite previous reports, according to head-honcho Hideo Kojima himself, a Death Stranding sequel exclusive to Google Stadia was never going to happen.
Back in September a report emerged claiming that at some point in time, a Death Stranding sequel of some sort was in development for the Stadia, but was ultimately cancelled by Google Stadia’s general manager Phil Harrison as the company believed there wasn’t a market for single player games any more. Well, that report was wrong by the sounds of it, as during the 10th episode of his Brain Structure podcast, Kojima put speculation to bed (thanks, GamesRadar).
“How do you react to that?” Kojima asked hypothetically about the numerous things that players come to him with. “Users send me stuff like this directly, like ‘word is going around about so and so.’ It’s constant, almost every day, and I don’t know where the original source came from, so I can’t say much about it.”
Kojima Productions will stay independent “as long as I’m alive,” says Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima apparently keeps getting offers for Kojima Productions to be acquired, but he’s insistent on staying independent until he’s dead.
If you’ve somehow missed out on the last seven years of Kojima-related news, back in 2015 he formed his own studio after a pretty messy divorce with Konami. His own studio, named after himself, has remained independent since then, and the Metal Gear Solid creator has no intention of changing that. As on the latest episode of his Spotify podcast, he made it clear that Kojima Productions is staying clear of a buyout (via Eurogamer).
“I created this company in December 2015 after leaving Konami,” Kojima explained on his podcast. “It was 100 percent out of my pocket – no funding from anyone whatsoever. We are indies, we have no affiliations whatsoever and are not backed by anyone, and are on good terms with everybody in the industry.
Kojima turns down ‘ridiculous’ buyout offers every day to stay indie
‘It’s not that I want money. I want to make what I want to make.’