As The Walking Dead series comes to a close with its twelfth and final season, Norman Redus, the actor who plays the taciturn Daryl Dixon on the show, spoke to leoedit in an interview. He talks there in particular about his career but above all about his future projects and thus falls like a hair on the soup The Death Stranding sequel was already in the works.
An unexpected announcement
When the actor talked a lot about The Walking Dead, his new book The Ravaged, or his series of motorcycle trips Ride, he was asked a question about Death Stranding. When the interviewer mentioned the 2019 title Reedus, he dropped a little bombshell.
Ok, so you’ve got your book in the works, you’ve got the final season out, then the spinoff, and you’re shooting Death Stranding, the video game.
– We just started the second one.
how did we get here
– Guillermo Del Toro, who offered me my first film role, called me and said, “Hey, there’s a guy called Hideo Kojima, he’s going to call you, say yes.” And I say, “How do you say yes?” He says, “Stop fooling around, just say yes.” Then I was in San Diego and Hideo came over with a big group of people, he’s from Tokyo, and he showed me what he was working on on a game called Silent Hill. I was blown away by what he showed me and I thought, “Yeah, let’s do it.” It’s not Ms. Pacman; it’s so realistic, it’s so futuristic, it’s so intricate and beautiful, and I was blown away.
It took me two or three years to complete all MoCap sessions [ndlr : Capture de mouvement] and everything else. It takes a lot of work. And then the game came out and it won all these awards, and that was huge, so we started the second part of the game.