'Death Stranding' release date, news: Mads Mikkelsen talks about working with Hideo Kojima

When Sony Interactive Entertainment and Kojima Productions introduced the new "Death Stranding" trailer to the world at the 2016 Games Awards ceremony, people were surprised to see a character bearing an exact likeness to "Doctor Strange" actor Mads Mikkelsen. During a panel at the PlayStation Experience (PSX) event the past weekend, it was confirmed that Mikkelsen was indeed going to play the antagonist in the game.

"The Walking Dead" star Norman Reedus is already in "Death Stranding," so getting another famous actor to play a part in the game is going to be huge. In an interview with Birth.Movies.Death, Mikkelsen revealed that he wasn't a gamer and he didn't really know who Hideo Kojima was before he joined the project. But he saw the trailer featuring Reedus and he was impressed.

"I thought that was spectacular just from the standpoint of an actor. The emotion, the feeling of it, the sensuality in what he does," he stated.

Mikkelsen also admitted that the plot was confusing and he does not really know what Kojima was talking about at times. "He's a very brilliant man. I mean ... the stuff he told me? I only understood some of it," he said. "I have to see it before I understand," he added.

All the motion-capture work he did on "Rogue One" and "Doctor Strange" is going to come in handy because all his work on "Death Stranding" will be motion-capture.

In an interview with IGN, Mikkelsen also compared Kojima to Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. "Because Kojima is the master he's the, what's his name, the Kasparov of video games. And such a visionary person," he said. Well, Kojima is definitely a legend in the gaming industry, so the comparison isn't really that far off.

PC Gamer has reported that "Death Stranding" is expected to hit the shelves sometime before 2019. It will be interesting to see how much the game has evolved when it finally comes out.