A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski has boarded A24’s Death Stranding adaptation, we hear.
It’s a big year for Death Stranding fans. Not only is Hideo Kojima’s utterly beautiful videogame getting a sequel this summer, there’s also a film adaptation in development at A24.
Deadline now has the scoop that A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski has been hired to write and direct the upcoming adaptation. Hideo Kojima is said to be “deeply” involved in the film as well, with his production company Kojima Productions joining forces with A24.
The game, originally released in 2019, places you in a post-apocalyptic America where invisible creatures roam the vast landscapes. You take on the role of Sam Porter Bridges, who delivers supplies to different colonies. A large part of the gameplay consists of walking from point A to point B while juggling packages on your back, but it’s a beautiful, narratively ambitious game.
Its cast was made up of several Hollywood stars, such as Léa Seydoux, Mads Mikkelsen, Margaret Qualley and Norman Reedus playing Sam. The game also featured cameos from Hollywood directors such as Guillermo Del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn. It’s not currently known if any of the game’s cast will reprise their roles in the movie.
Sarnoski rose to fame with his excellent feature debut, Pig, starring Nicolas Cage, but his big break came with last year’s A Quiet Place prequel, which we were big fans of. Before he can fully dive into Death Stranding, Sarnoski is working on The Death Of Robin Hood, which started filming earlier this year in Scotland.
The Death Stranding film currently has no release window and it’s still in early days of development, but we’ll keep you updated as we hear more.
