Hideo Kojima is likely one of the best online game designers ever, however he all the time has his sights set past consoles. Lower than two years after saying an A24-produced movie adaptation of his 2020 recreation Dying Stranding, Kojima has revealed that the Dying Stranding visible universe may also embrace an anime.
Talking with Vogue Japan (thanks VGC), Kojima stated that video video games are only one storytelling medium by way of which he desires to channel his creativity. The person often called one of the vital succinct film buffs, together with his one sentence movie opinions of all the things from the horrible Madame Internet to the sensational Sinners, is able to rework his beloved recreation in methods solely movie and animation can do. The best way he explains it, the upcoming Dying Stranding variations can be extra impressed by the sport, somewhat than a trustworthy retelling.
“Relating to movie variations of video games,” Kojima informed Vogue (through machine translation), “there have been current [shows] like The Final of Us that maintain the plot of the unique intact, and movies like The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film which can be extra like a service to recreation followers. Every of those works has its personal deserves, however as a movie lover, I need to pursue the expressive potential of cinema.”
It’s at this level within the interview that Kojima makes the primary point out of this anime venture. “I’m aiming to make Dying Stranding in a approach that may solely be executed as a movie, and that may win awards on the Cannes Movie Pageant and the Venice Movie Pageant. In actual fact, we’re additionally at the moment engaged on an anime adaptation.”
This isn’t the primary time Kojima has introduced one his online game properties into the world of anime. Zone of the Enders: Dolores, I was an anime sequence launched from the world of his attractive multi-console third-person shooter Zone of the Enders again in 2001. An anime prequel movie, Zone of the Enders: 2167 Idolo, was launched six months prior.
No launch date or timeline has been introduced. Nonetheless, it’s exhilarating to know that one of the vital progressive visible storytellers of our time is constant to increase his inventive horizons.