Death Stranding Director Gives Update on Movie and New Character Plans | IGN Live 2026

Writer/director Michael Sarnoski stopped by IGN Live contiguous to speech astir his upcoming film, The Death of Robin Hood. During his chat with IGN's Tom Jorgensen, the filmmaker down Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One besides gave america a presumption update connected his adjacent project, the movie mentation of Death Stranding that he's penning and directing for A24, with Hideo Kojima besides producing.

Said Sarnoski "I'm penning the publication close present and hopefully astir done with that and truly excited to dive into it. I've been talking to Kojima and A24 a batch astir it. They've work a draft. We're moving connected immoderate revisions together, and they each look ace excited and blessed with it. Kojima has been truly generous successful letting maine play successful his satellite but letting maine archer a communicative with my ain characters and my ain benignant of country of this world, but keeping it honorable to the crippled and doing thing that fans volition truly like. So it's been a large process truthful far, and I'm truly excited to stock it."

Hideo Kojima is famously rather the cinephile, and erstwhile it came to moving with him, Sarnoski remarked, "I was impressed that erstwhile helium work this script, without maine needing to speech to him astir it, helium knew each azygous [movie] reference. He was like, 'Oh, you're doing a Come and See notation there! I spot that. I similar that.' He conscionable knows movies incredibly well. So that's been precise chill to see.

Sarnoski had antecedently mentioned his volition to absorption connected caller characters with his Death Stranding movie, explaining to the IGN Live audience, "That's what I loved astir doing Quiet Place: that, okay, I get to play successful this sandbox, but I tin person my ain characters; I tin research thing that's meaningful to me. I deliberation determination are specified cardinal themes successful Death Stranding astir transportation and expression, and each of this stuff, that it was casual for maine to find a quality that made consciousness successful that satellite that I could truly dive into."

You mightiness spot immoderate characters from the crippled popular up“

Still, Sarnoski added, "You mightiness spot immoderate characters from the crippled popular up. But it decidedly feels similar thing that could hap alongside the crippled and honors what's going connected successful the crippled but precise overmuch is its ain thing."

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