#Mads mikkelsen death stranding series#
Attempts at adapting his Metal Gear Solid series into film have usually floundered because their stories are fundamentally interactive. Kojima has always pushed for the medium to be cinematic, but he’s never lost sight of its unique qualities. His seminal Metal Gear Solid for the original PlayStation featured a espionage-style storyline with an eyepatch-wearing character called Snake (a nod to John Carpenter’s Escape From New York). Kojima’s games have always had a cinematic quality to them, lifting from the classics.
#Mads mikkelsen death stranding movie#
The famous Japanese game designer has always been a fan of movies indeed, his Twitter bio reads “70% of my body is made of movies.” As a child he watched one movie a night, and if you follow him on Twitter, you can often seen him enjoying limited editions of his favorite Blu-rays while you silently tell yourself that yes, he’s just like you. But what about the opposite direction? What about a game that wants to be a film?ĭeath Stranding, Hideo Kojima’s 2019 game, famously straddled the line between mediums in a way few games had, and part of what makes it work is the one and only Mads Mikkelsen.īefore diving into Mikkelsen, let’s briefly talk about Kojima. Translating the storytelling mechanics of a game into a film is just as hard as well. It’s not as difficult to make a movie out of a book or a comic because you’re using the language of film to retell a story that exists outside of a player’s choices. Then again … how many movie adaptations of great games are any good? Movies have historically done a great job building off of books, comics and other written media, but games have provided a greater challenge because the stories in games require player engagement. Gaming provides franchises with ready-made stories, built-in fanbases and visually iconic characters for our IP-hungry corporate entertainment system. Uncharted overperformed at the box office this month, and just this spring, we have Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and a Halo streaming series coming up.
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