Death Stranding 2 is indeed in development, it is now a certainty. For the second time in a few months, actor Norman Reedus has just confirmed that the sequel to Hideo Kojima’s controversial game does indeed exist. It is during an interview with the Leo Edit website that the actor launches a “We have just started the second”, without the slightest pressure. Has Norman Reedus once again broken the NDA that binds him to Kojima Productions, or is it an orchestrated leak? When we realize with what naivety he speaks of his introduction with Death Stranding and Hideo Kojima, we most certainly think that all this is not calculated. When asked how Reedus landed on the project thanks to Guillermo del Toro, who told him to accept the project.
Guillermo del Toro, who offered me my first role, called me one day to say: “Hey, there’s a guy named Hideo Kojima, he’s going to call you, just say yes to him.” I then answered him: “How do I say yes to him?”. He shot back and said, “Stop fooling around and just tell him yes. Then I was in San Diego and Hideo came over with a big group of people, he’s from Tokyo, and he showed me what he was working on, a game called Silent Hill. I was blown away by what he showed me and I was like, ‘OK, let’s do this!’ à la Mrs Pacman; it’s so realistic, it’s so futuristic, it’s so complex and beautiful, and I was completely blown away.
It took me maybe two or three years to complete all the MoCap sessions and everything. It takes a lot of work. And then the game came out, and it just won all these awards, and that was huge, so we just started the game sequel.
Unexpected words that allow us to better understand the influence that Guillermo del Toro can have on certain actors, who do not really know video games and even less Hideo Kojima, who portrays himself as a true genius by making us believe that everything the world is ready to work with him. If the Japanese game designer worships the actor, it was not mutual. Still, Death Stranding 2 is in production, Sam Porter Bridges will return to PS5, since the license belongs to Sony Interactive Entertainment.
