You may think that the world of video games is an unusual place, filled with glamour, where decisions are made in glass offices following incredible presentations. However, it’s not always like that. For programmers, certainly, it usually isn’t, but now we have discovered that it’s not like that for the actors who play the characters either. This was the case for Norman Reedus, whom you may know from ‘Death Stranding’ and who accepted the project without even reading a line of the script.
Sushi Stranding
Basically… this came to be because there was no script when Hideo Kojima first decided to meet with him at a sushi restaurant and propose that he be the lead character of a project that hadn’t even started. Kojima himself stated on Twitter, “He said yes instantly even though there wasn’t even a script. The following month we scanned him and took screenshots for a trailer.”
The trailer was released at E3 2016, but the game wouldn’t be released until 2019. By that time, the actor was already well known for his role as Daryl Dixon, which he has played in three different series: ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘The Walking Dead: Origins’, and, you guessed it, ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’. But fame certainly didn’t stop him from taking on a risky project with no script, story, or anything similar. But he had passion. Let’s see who can say the same today.
Back then, Kojima remembers, “I was still skinny and below my recommended weight”. Reedus and he became friends, obviously. So much so, he responded to Kojima’s tweet saying “My dude”. Both will come together again in ‘Death Stranding 2’, because after the success of the first one, frankly… who could refuse a sequel?
