Death Stranding Nicolas Winding Refn

Hideo Kojima Explains Nicolas Winding Refn'south 'Death Stranding' Character

During a San Diego Comic-Con panel chat with film director Nicolas Winding Refn, video game director Hideo Kojima showed off new footage from his upcoming 'Death Stranding' game.

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Legendary video game managing director Hideo Kojima brought the strangeness to this yr'due south San Diego Comic-Con.

During a panel conversation with film director Nicolas Winding Refn and The Game Awards' Geoff Keighley on Saturday evening, Kojima showed off new footage from his upcoming Death Stranding game.

In introducing Refn to the stage, Kojima showed off a curt prune of his character, Heartman, from the game. Heartman seems to live in a foreign 21-minute loop and appears with an EKG strapped to his chest, which zaps him equally the time expires. Heartman shows Norman Reedus' grapheme around his lavish flat, explaining his collection of films and music that tin be consumed in under 20 minutes.

Refn, whose likeness is used in Kojima's game (as is fellow picture director Guillermo del Toro's) said, "One of the things that bonded us is that nosotros are very similar. We both like silence," Refn said of Kojima. "A very beautiful relationship began between us and we have traveled the world together — like a couple," he added, eliciting laughter from the crowd.

"Well-nigh of life's basic functions fit rather hands into a 21-infinitesimal timeslot…"

Meet the mysterious Heartman in #DeathStranding, out November eight for PS4: https://t.co/jIO1OaomzO picture show.twitter.com/K0CD7E7t6L

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) July 27, 2019

Kojima explained that he asked Refn about putting him in contact with Mads Mikkelsen, who too stars in Decease Stranding. "Nicolas suggested Keanu Reeves," Kojima joked through his translator.

Equally to how Refn ended up in the office in the new game, Kojima explained that he had based Heartman off of the filmmaker. "Heartman's center stops every 21 minutes. What happens is that he dies and he looks for his family on the other side for three minutes," said Kojima.

"I make movies and when I piece of work with actors, it's flamboyant and colorful and warm, and and then I come here and it's like, 'Take your clothes off. We're going to paint your face with dots,'" Refn said of the process of getting his likeness in the game.

Describing his latest, Kojima compared Decease Stranding to Hollywood films. "I want to create new things and give new stimulation to the world," he said. "I desire to bring something unlike that is difficult to chew and digest."

"I remember Kojima and I both take great pleasure in destroying good sense of taste," Refn added.

When asked about the blurring of lines betwixt Hollywood filmmaking and the games industry, Kojima said, "120 years ago films were created and at first you lot had to go to a theater to watch them. And then came the TV. Then came streaming. Gaming will exist streaming, too. I call back games and movies, in the near future, volition come up closer. We're going into an era of new possibilities."

Also revealed during the panel was the official box fine art for the game, which volition launch exclusively on the PlayStation four on Nov. 8.

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