Hideo Kojima says the Demise Stranding film is ‘taking a course that no one has tried earlier than’ with a game adaptation
On: December 23, 2022
Hideo Kojima says the upcoming Demise Stranding film will probably be very totally different to different big-screen variations of videogames. In a wide-ranging interview with IGN, the acclaimed game developer mentioned cinema’s tough relationship with video video games, and the way that influenced his enthusiastic about the deliberate adaptation of Demise Stranding.
“The failure of movie adaptation of video games from some time again has led to a variety of motion pictures that cater to players, right? That is why they’ve the identical form of look as a game,” Kojima says. “I am taking the strategy of adjusting and evolving the world of Demise Stranding in a method that fits movie nicely. I made Demise Stranding to be a game, and video games are video games. There is no actual want to show them into movies. So in a method, the Demise Stranding film is taking a course that no one has tried earlier than with a film adaptation of a game.”
The Demise Stranding film is being produced as a joint collaboration between Kojima Productions and Alex Lebovici, govt producer of the latest horror movie Barbarian. Kojima’s choice to work with Lebovici was based mostly upon a shared “imaginative and prescient” the 2 creators had for the movie. “My intention from the beginning was by no means to make a blockbuster movie,” Kojima says. “I am aiming for a extra arthouse strategy, and the one one who provided to make a movie like that was Alex Lebovici.”
Alongside the large Demise Stranding film undertaking, Kojima additionally reveals that he was engaged on a brief movie that bought “shelved” as a consequence of the pandemic. “It was a screenplay I wrote that we deliberate to place out as a video. I had been pondering of constructing this as a brief movie as a primary dip into Hollywood, and the script nonetheless exists, however we do not intend on making it anymore, no less than not at once.”
In addition to his varied film tasks, Kojima additionally discusses his ongoing work in video video games. He reveals how Demise Stranding 2 was utterly rewritten after the pandemic, and likewise talks about his cloud undertaking with Microsoft, information of which surfaced in June this 12 months.
“The undertaking we’re engaged on with Microsoft is one I’ve been enthusiastic about for 5 – 6 years already,” Kojima says. “The undertaking required infrastructure that was by no means wanted earlier than, so I mentioned it with plenty of totally different large firms and gave shows, however they actually appeared to suppose that I used to be mad.” Kojima says it was Microsoft who “confirmed the best way” and that they are now working collectively on the undertaking “together with the expertise entrance”.
