Death Stranding Live-Action Movie Has Its Director

Michael Sarnoski, manager of A Quiet Place: Day One, is reportedly acceptable to constitute and nonstop the live-action adaptation of Kojima Productions' Death Stranding.

Per Deadline, Sarnoski volition constitute and nonstop the Death Stranding adaptation with A24 and Kojima Productions producing, alongside Square Peg. Sarnoski directed and wrote for some the A Quiet Place spin-off Day One and 2021's Pig, starring Nicolas Cage. He's besides the writer/director for the upcoming The Death of Robin Hood, different A24 project.

Few details were fixed astir what the live-action adaptation of Death Stranding would entail. The archetypal 2019 crippled sent players retired into the wasteland to effort and reconnect a scattered America amid an extinction-level event, successful a satellite haunted by nightmarish creatures and unusual happenings. It's already bully movie fodder earlier you origin successful Hideo Kojima's cinematic tendencies.

Death Stranding besides featured a star-studded formed that included Norman Reedus successful the pb relation of Sam Bridges, arsenic good arsenic Léa Seydoux, Mads Mikkelsen, Guillermo del Toro, and Margaret Qualley. It'll beryllium absorbing to spot if these actors reprise their roles for the live-action adaptation.

There's inactive much for Death Stranding successful store though, arsenic Kojima Productions precocious confirmed Death Stranding 2: On the Beach volition motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth connected June 26, 2025 connected PlayStation 5. The adjacent crippled successful the Death Stranding saga besides picked up immoderate much stars, including the likes of Luca Marinelli and Elle Fanning.

Hopefully this peculiar Kojima-linked task forges ahead, arsenic the Metal Gear Solid movie is inactive reportedly being worked connected contempt slowing updates. With each the stars and cinematics though, Death Stranding surely seems poised to marque the leap to live-action.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.