Norman Reedus is an actor known for having played the role of Daryl Nixon on The Walking Dead, which led him to star in Death Stranding for Kojima Productions a couple of years ago. In a recent interview, Norman Redus recalls how he got involved with Hideo Kojima and agreed to work on a video game, which was going to be back then. silent hills.
In an interview with the leoedit site, Norman Reedus confirmed that he is already working on Death Stranding 2 for Kojima Productions, and took the opportunity to tell how he got involved with Hideo Kojima, the legendary video game designer and director. According to Norman Reedus, it was all thanks to William of the Bullwho was already a friend of Kojima when he was going to contact Redus to offer him the role.
Guillermo del Toro, who gave me my first movie, called me up and said, ‘Hey, there’s a guy named Hideo Kojima, he’s going to call you, just say yes.’ And I’m like, ‘What do you mean just say yes?’ He said, ‘he stop being a jerk, just say yes’. Then I was in San Diego and Kojima came over with a big group of people, he’s from Tokyo, and he showed me a game he was working on called Silent Hill.”
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Norman Reedus remembers that what Hideo Kojima showed him blew his mind, as it was not a game in the style of Ms. Pacman, but a realistic and futuristic experience, while at the same time complicated and beautiful. Norman Reedus was so impressed with Kojima’s work on Silent Hills that he immediately agreed to work with him.
The first Silent Hills teaser trailer with Norman Reedus in the lead role was shown in 2014, but unfortunately the Konami project was cancelled. However, Hideo Kojima and Norman Reedus continued to work together on what eventually became Death Stranding, a PlayStation exclusive.
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Although it’s been a long time since Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills was cancelled, Konami fans still regret that the project didn’t come true, as the PT (Playable Teaser) demo presented a truly terrifying experience on PlayStation 4 .