Death Stranding 2 fans think that a 30-year-old movie is the inspiration for its guitar-gun wielding villain
Feb. 2, 2024Fans think it’s Brandon Lee’s The Crow, not The Joker, that’s inspiring the returning villain
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Death Stranding 2fans believe the resurrected Higgs is styled after Brandon Lee’s The Crow movie.
Now that everyone’s had a moment to process the trailer’s wacky goings-on, it seems a more apt comparison is that of Brandon Lee’s titular character in The Crow. As the tweet below attests to, Lee’s character returns from the dead to play guitar and take lives, which is pretty much everything Higgs has going on in the latest Death Stranding 2 trailer.
If you’re unfamiliar with The Crow, it was a 1994 movie, which unfortunately became pretty synonymous with Brandon Lee’s untimely death. Lee was fatally wounded by a prop gun during filming, with rewrites, stunt doubles, and digital effects completing the rest of the movie in his absence. The film has attained a cult status ever since, partly because of Lee’s death.
This is all to say that yes, Higgs does seem to be inspired by Lee’s The Crow character. ConsideringHideo Kojimais a massive movie buff, it’s not hard to imagine the game director picking out a 30-year-old movie as the inspiration for the return of one of his villains in Death Stranding 2.
Death Stranding 2 is reuniting Kojima with a Metal Gear Solid veteranto partly direct the new game’s cutscenes. Yoji Shimomura has had a hand in directing the action of the Bayonetta and Devil May Cry games over the years, which is an exciting prospect for Kojima’s new game.
Read on for some insight intowhat a 64-year-old movie can tell us about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
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