A24's Death Stranding has found its director, with Michael Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One) on board to helm the film adaptation of Hideo Kojima's sci-fi epic video game, Deadline reports today.
Producing alongside A24 are Kojima Productions and Square Peg, with Sarnoski also writing. Per Deadline, the film will center on a catastrophic series of events that blur the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead, bringing forth nightmarish creatures into a fragmented world on the brink of collapse.
Released in 2019, Kojima's Death Stranding starred Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Lรฉa Seydoux, Guillermo del Toro, and Margaret Qualley, and is set in a post-apocalyptic United States. Players controlled Sam Porter Bridges (Reedus) as he traverses miles of frequently-barren landscape, avoiding BTs (invisible monsters who've crossed over into our world), delivering packages, and trying to build connections between the pockets of humanity that still survive. As of 2021, the game has sold 5 million copies worldwide.
A sequel, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, is scheduled for release on June 26. Reedus and Seydoux return, with news additions including Mad Max co-creator George Miller, director Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon, the upcoming Predator: Badlands), Luca Marinelli and Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool & Wolverine).
No news yet on whether Reedus and co. will star in the film adaptation, but we'll bring you all the updates as we get them.
