Death Stranding is getting an animated film

The strange world of Death Stranding just keeps on expanding. As Deadline reports, Hideo Kojima's ghostly, post-apocalyptic video game is getting a spinoff in the form of an animated film. While there aren't a lot of details yet, the animated feature will supposedly be in the same mold as other animated spinoffs like the recent Predator anthology on Hulu, which could be a good vehicle for Kojima's particular brand of weirdness.

Aaron Guzikowski, creator of the HBO series Raised by Wolves, has signed on as writer. I love the world ofDeath Stranding, it's so creatively freeing, so beautifully dark and yet hopeful, he said in a statement, noting that he would be creating "new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe.

The news comes just ahead of the game's long-awaited sequel, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which launches on the PS5 on June 26th. A live-action film is also in the works from A24, with Michael Sarnoski - the director of Pig and A Quiet Place - on board to direct.