Death Stranding movie aims to capture the "soul" of the games, but will be its own original story – and even Hideo Kojima won't be involved "too much"

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The upcoming live-action Death Stranding movie will be an original story set in the same world as the game universe created by Hideo Kojima.

"We really want to capture the soul of the game, capture the themes of the game, but tell a story you haven't seen in that world and explore characters you haven't seen before – and find all of that scope and all of those incredible real locations, but also find all of those nuances characters and do justice to this on a macro and micro scale," writer-director Michael Sarnoski said during the Kojima Productions 10th Anniversary: Beyond the Strand livestream.