# My Chemical Romance and Lauren Tsai Team Up for Short Movie Featuring Hideo Kojima

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/my-chemical-romance-and-lauren-tsai-team-up-for-short-movie-featuring-hideo-kojima/
- Published: 2026-10-30T11:20:38+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T05:17:16+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/my-chemical-romance-mcr-lauren-tsai-short-film-kojima-cameo/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film, Music

## Key points

- My Chemical Romance and Lauren Tsai made a stop-motion short.
- The story links The Dying World with “The End”.
- Hideo Kojima, Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers cameo.

## Summary

Lauren Tsai and My Chemical Romance have made a stop-motion short film inspired by “The End”, the opening track of the band’s 2006 album The Black Parade. It brings Tsai’s characters and setting from The Dying World into the song’s themes of memory and being forgotten, while leaving open whether the collaboration connects to a possible new MCR album.

In the film, Astrid is sent into a world described by Tsai as a “trash dump for discarded thoughts” after her sketchpad is thrown away. Tsai voices Astrid, while John C. McGinley voices the school’s dean; Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers appear in voicemails, and Hideo Kojima plays Astrid’s teacher. Kojima is a longtime fan of the band and previously worked with Tsai on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

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