Quote:legendary game creator Hideo Kojima stepped on stage at the Disney+ Originals Preview to announce the animated series - DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) which will be streaming exclusively on Disney+ in 2027.

DEATH STRANDING the video game was originally released in 2019 and has captivated over 20 million players worldwide, blending cinematic ambition, metaphysical mystery, and emotional connection. The sequel, DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH recently launched exclusively on PlayStation®5 on June 26th, 2025.

Announced in front of a packed auditorium at the Disney+ Originals Preview at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, executive producer of the series’ Hideo Kojima, and the series’ director Takayuki Sano, appeared on stage to announce that their first ever partnership with a global streaming platform will be with Disney+ and that the latest expansion of the DEATH STRANDING franchise will be an animated series. New concept art created by Ilya Kuvshinov, who served as character designer for “Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045”, was also revealed along with the DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) announcement.

Set in the world of DEATH STRANDING, DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) will tell a completely new story, separate from that of the video games. The upcoming series will follow a young man and woman as they set out on an adventure. Told through a traditional, hand-drawn 2D animation style, some of Japan’s top animation talent at E&H production are currently working  to bring the series to life.
STORY SYNOPSIS

Once, there was an explosion...

Lonesome souls of the dead manifest in the physical world, reaching in search of the living. However, the connection they create triggers a massive explosion that eradicates anything of this world—a phenomenon referred to as the Death Stranding. These events wipe out nations as well as civilization itself. People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections. As humanity stands at the brink a legendary porter set out to transport both cargo and wishes of its senders, reconnecting people in the hope that they might still be saved.

Based on the video game born out of the mind of legendary game creator, Hideo Kojima, comes a new animation series headed by Japan’s up-and-coming animation studio E&H production. Helmed by E&H’s Takayuki Sano, it follows in the footsteps of the original in spirit and ideas and depict the world of Death Stranding through a bold and yet subtle touch and top-class hand-drawn animation. 

Somewhere in North America, just as Sam Bridges walks through the continent in order to save America, the someones are also trying to deal with their isolation in their own way. An old man trying to realize salvation through ways outside of the connection advocated by Bridges. A female warrior who tries to kickstart a world of constant fighting. A boy with a grudge against Bridges. A girl who embraces loneliness.

On the precipice of the end of humanity and the world, their fates and hopes converge, as another story of Death Stranding begins.

And now, comes another explosion...



STAFF

Executive Producer: Hideo Kojima 
Director: Takayuki Sano 
Original Character Design: Ilya Kuvshinov 
Animation Production: E&H production

CREDITS

DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title)
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Streaming Exclusively on Disney+ in 2027

Set to release exclusively on Disney+, stay tuned for more information on DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (Working Title) coming soon.

Deadline Wrote:Aaron Guzikowski (Raised by Wolves) has signed to write the screenplay for an adult-targeted animated feature inspired by Hideo Kojima’s hit action-adventure video game Death Stranding.

The signing was announced by Japanese games maestro Hideo Kojima’s Tokyo and L.A.-based Kojima Productions and L.A.-based animation company Line Mileage.

The partners say the movie, which is currently in development, will be in a similar vein to adult-targeted, animated genre films such as the recently announced John Wick animated prequel and sci-fi horror Predator: Killer of Killers, which released on this month on Hulu and Disney+.

It will feature an original story unfolding in the universe of Death Stranding, set in the wake of a series of cataclysmic explosions around the world which result in the dead and living becoming connected.

Guzikowski has won praise for his emotionally charged storytelling, with credits including sci-fi show Raised by Wolves and 2013 abduction drama Prisoners directed by Denis Villeneuve.

“I love the world of Death Stranding, it’s so creatively freeing, so beautifully dark and yet hopeful; I’m so excited and honored that Hideo Kojima, whose work I’ve long admired, has invited me to dwell within his creation, to birth new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe,” said Guzikowski.

“Drawing and animation have always been near and dear to my heart, so to finally get to play in this space is a dream come true.”

Directed by Kojima and featuring performances by Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Guillermo del Toro, Death Stranding has been credited with redefining the dramatic potential of video games. A new version of the original game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – adding Elle Fanning to the cast – is due out on June 26.

The new animated feature project is separate from a previously announced live-action adaptation being developed by Kojima Production with A24.

Line Mileage is the animation production company of partners Jacob Robinson (Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft), Daniel Dominguez (Seis Manos), and Brad Graeber (Castlevania).

Specializing in adult genre storytelling across animation, the team brings deep experience in adapting IP across games, comics, and beyond.

Line Mileage CCO Daniel Dominguez said the cinematic quality of Death Stranding meant the game lent itself well to an animated movie adaptation.

“As an avid gamer I can say, unequivocally, Death Stranding is the most cinematic, thought-provoking video game I have ever played,” he said.

“Playing it gave me the same emotional rush, visceral punch, and intellectual pleasure I had the first time I watched Blade Runner, or Ghost in the Shell. Adapting it into a form it so naturally evokes is an honor. And for Aaron Guzikowski to lend his talents, whose authorial mind and creative energy humble me… needless to say, this project is a dream come true.”