Hideo Kojima is notorious for not shying away from casting some of Hollywood's biggest names for his video game projects, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:his new horror experience OD in partnership wi💙th Xbox Game Studios is the latest example. After all, he consumes a lot of movies and television, which tells him the exact performances he wants to utilize.

If there's one Triple-A studio that's wildly more innovative and pushing the boundaries of the medium more than Remedy, it's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kojima Productions. One look at the OD trailer, and you'll be puzzled as to the concept but dumbfounded at how lifelike all the actors' faces look. So, who are they?

Hideo Kojima's History With Movie And TV Actors In His Games

OD is not the first game to see some big Hollywood names in a Kojima production, as lots of notable talent were featured in his earlier games, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:going back to MGS2: Sons of Liberty and continuing in Death Stranding 2.

While not technically considered a Hollywood actor, veteran voice actor David Hayter (Solid Snake) is a prolific screenwriter known for X-Men, The Scorpion King, X2, Lost in Oz (2002), Zack Snyder's Watchmen, Wolves, and Netflix's Warrior Nun.

The late Earl Boen from The Terminator franchise, Annihilator, Naked Gun's third installment, The Man with Two Brains, and The Odd Couple 2 is Sons of Liberty's villain Sergei Gurlukovich.

Metal Gear Solid 4 had a character allied with Snake called Drebin 893, who was voiced by none other than King Ezekiel and Cyborg actor Khary Payton from The Walking Dead and various DC animated 🌃series and movies like Tee꧙n Titans and Teen Titans Go!

The starring role of Venom Snake in MGS5: The Phantom Pain was filled by prominent TV and movie star Kiefer Sutherland, known for his roles as Jack Bauer in 24 and President Tom Kirkman in Designated Survi🔯vor. You may also know him from Flatliners, Mirrors, Rabbit Hole, The Lost Boys, and Stand by Me.

Death Stranding saw an even greater surplus of stars with Norman Reedus, ꦅMads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Margaret Qualley, Tommie Earl Jenkins, and even directors Nicolas Win﷽ding Refn and Guillermo del Toro.

The protagonist, Norman Reedus, is perhaps most famous for The Boondock Saints, Blade 2, and for playing Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead and his spin-off show, while antagonist Mads Mikkelsen is known for Hannibal, The Hunt (2012), Another Round, Rogue One, and Indiana Jones and the Dial ꦆ🍃of Destiny.

Léa Seydoux, or Fragile, has starred in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Blue is the Warmest Color, 007's Spectre and No Time To Die, Crimes of the Future, The Beast, and Dune: Part Two.

Actress Margaret Qualley, playing Mama in Death Stranding, has been in The Nice Guys, HBO's The Leftovers, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Fosse/Verdon, Poor Things, and Drive-Away Dolls.

Die-Hardman actor Tommie Earl Jenkins is most well-known for playing Mayor Noble Walker in Netflix's Wednesday and Ellison Pevney in CW's Pandora.

And Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will now add Elle Fanning (Hulu's The Great, Maleficent, Mary Shelley, The Girl from Plainville) and Shioli Kutsuna (Apple TV+'s Invasion, Deadpool 2, Murder Mystery, Oh Lucy!, The Outsider).

So, which stars are gettin🎀g direction from Kojima in his weird new cutting-edge horror game OD?

Which Celebrities Are Confirmed To Star In OD?

Hunter Schafer

First up is Hunter Schafer, who skyrocketed to fame with her breakout Emmy-nominated role in HBO Max's Euphoria, playing transgender teen Jules Vaughn, who's best friends with Zendaya's troubled character Rue and who stirs up some drama for Nate's family with her proclivities.

Schafer is also memorable for her role as a young Tigris in The Hunger Games prequel The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes, Coriolanus Snow's much more empathetic and fashion-forward cousin.

And before her horror game outing in OD, you can catch her in the 2024 horror film Cuckoo, where she stars alongꦡside Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, and Marton Csokas.

Hunter Schafer is herself a transgender woman, which means OD will also break new ground for trans representation in the game industry in a major way that hasn't happened since August Aiden Black's portrayal of playable trans character Tyler Ronan in Tell 🗹Me Why.

Sophia Lillis

Sophia Lillis is an actress you'll instantly recognize as the young Beverly Marsh in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the 2017 remake of Stephen King's It, which she also reprised in the 2019 sequel. Her other horror movie was Oz Perkins' darker take on the Hansel and Gretel tale by the Brothers Grimm, where she played Gretel.

She's also been in the TV shows Sharp Objects on HBO Max, where she was the younger version of Amy Adams' Camille Preaker, and Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This.

By age 22, she'd already worked with Wes Anderson, got to assume the iconic roles of Bev Marsh, Nancy Drew, Gretel, the tiefling Doric in 168澳洲幸𝔉运5开奖网:the 2023 D&D movie Honor Among Thieves,𒁃 and is now set to collaborate with Kojima in his horror endeavor.

Udo Kier

German actor Udo Kier is perhaps the most exciting reveal from the OD trailer, considering he's a bit of a horror movie icon with a career spanning back to the late 1960s.

He first gained recognition for his roles as Baron Von Frankenstein and Count Dracula in Paul Morrissey's Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. Then he went on to star in Dario Argento's supernatural ballet horror Suspiria.

Worth noting is that Udo Kier has also appeared in plenty of comedic movies like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective with Jim Carrey and Downsizing with Matt Damon and worked with Turkish-German director Fatih Akin on the film Soul Kitchen.

Fatih Akin is a director confirmed to be featured in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach alongside George Miller 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:as a stop-motion puppet companion for protagonist Sam Bridges.

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Kier also collaborated with Danish film director Lars von Trier on The Kingdom, Dancer in t🤡he Dark, Dogville, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac Vol. 2, another director Hideo Kojima has expressed admiration for.

Unlike his co-stars Sophia Lillis and Hunter Schafer, Kier is also no stranger to being in video games, voicing Lord Yuri in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Command & Conquer series, Dr. Peter Straub in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty: WW2, Erich in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Martha is Dead, and reprཧising Lorenzini in The Adventures of Pinocchꦕio video game.

Another interesting fact about Udo Kier's movie and television roles is that he often portrays Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, which was in 1989's 100 Years of Adolf Hitler, 2002's Mrs. Meitlemeihr, 2019's Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and the Jordan Peele-produced Prime Video series Hunters (a director associated with OD).

Unconfirmed Celebrities Hideo Kojima Teased At Kojima Productions

Out of all these famous stars Hideo has teased, the photo with Wyatt Oleff is a strong clue that the actor may star alongside Sophia Lillꦿis for a third time in OD. He previously shared the screen with the actress in It and It Chapter 2 as a young Stanley Uris and as her friend Stanley Barber in I Am Not Okay With This.

Timothèe Chalamet has been seen a lot with Hideo Kojima and even presented at the 2023 Game Awards, getting yet another opportunity to meet with OD's creator. Chalamet also starred in Paul King's Wonka, a director whom Kojima is a fan of.

Nicolas Cage has already crossed over into the realm of video games as a DLC survivor for the asymmetrical horror game 🌌Dead by Daylight in 20ꦗ23, as 🌊well as starred in many horror films, so Nic Cage could be the missing ingredient OD requires.

Actor Ma Dong-seok, or Don Lee, is a South Korean star known for the hit zombie movie Train to Busan and then returned to the zombie genre with 2024's Badland Hunters, so horror is quite within his lane.

Oscar Isaac is known for working with director Alex Garland in his back-to-back sci-fi movies Ex Machina and Annihilation, and he played Chalamet's father Leto Atreides in Dune. Garland was already confirmed to have signed the Kojima Productions board and had his photo taken with Kojima.

Another name that sticks out is Koji Yakusho, who starred in the 2023 Japanese show Vivant and was the voice of Suzu's father in the 2021 anime movie Belle, which Hunter Schafer was also in as the English voice for the character Ruka.

One of the directors for Vivant, Yohei Miyazaki, also visited Kojima Productions, so perhaps there's a connection there.

Aside from Hollywood movie stars, Hideo Kojima also teased photos with celebrity musicians, like Oscar-winning composer duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Perfume pop group singer Ayano Omoto.

Hideo Kojima's entrance music for the OD Presentation at the Game Awards was the song 'Came Back Haunted' by Nine Inch Nails, which is another huge hint at Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' involvement with OD.

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Hideo said he's assembling what he likes to refer to as the "Avengers" for OD, and this composer pair would certainly fit.