Prisoners and Raised by Wolves’ Aaron Guzikowski has signed on to write the screenplay for an adult animated feature based on Hideo Kojima’s action-adventure video game Death Stranding.

The news was announced by Kojima Productions and Line Mileage. The partners say that the film, which is in development, will be of a similar tone to the recently announced John Wick animated prequel and the sci-fi horror Predator: Killer of Killers.

The unnamed film 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 that result in the dead and living becoming intimately connected.

“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, and Guillermo del Toro, Death Stranding earned much praise from critics and the public alike. A new version of the original game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, in which Elle Fanning was also cast, is due to release later this month.