Luca Marinelli recently caught my eye after watching “The Old Guard” and “Martin Eden.” “I think if he donned a bandana, he’d be a spitting image of Solid Snake!” Kojima added.

But Marinelli isn’t just playing a new character in the Death Stranding universe… He seems poised to become Kojima’s new Solid Snake. Who is Luca Marinelli playing in Death Stranding 2? Marinelli is ...

Kojima explains that during the pandemic, when he was casting for Death Stranding 2, Neil would be an important character that replaces Cliff from the first Death Stranding, and how the fans "would ...

If you’ve watched the new Death Stranding 2 trailer, you’ll know that Italian actor Luca Marinelli puts on a bandana and looks directly into the camera like Metal Gear Solid protagonist Solid Snake.

On X/Twitter, Kojima wrote a lengthy post about the process of casting Italian actor Luca Marinelli to play Neil in Death ...

Jason Momoa wasn’t kidding when he said playing the comic book character Lobo was a top priority for him. In a new post on X, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn revealed the text Momoa sent him when it ...

Neil is a new character played by Luca Marinelli, and he bears a striking resemblance to Solid Snake, the protagonist of Kojima's Metal Gear series. Toward the end of the 10-minute-long trailer ...

To be clear, these are references: I'm not saying Neil is literally Solid Snake. Though Kojima did trail this casting in a 2020 Instagram post, saying "I think if [Luca Marinelli] donned a bandana, he ...

Hideo Kojima discusses casting a major new character for Death Stranding 2 and how he hopes to surpass Mads Mikkelson's role in the original.