Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to live-action.
The firm behind the best-selling sport, which featured the likeness and efficiency of actor Keanu Reeves, introduced immediately that it had “begun a collaboration with global media company Anonymous Content to develop a live-action project set in the world of its best-selling video game, Cyberpunk 2077.” Anonymous Content is a movie and TV firm that has been behind initiatives starting from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to The Midnight Sky to the TV collection Briarpatch, Dickinson, and The Alienist.
The press launch from sport firm CD Projekt Red doesn’t point out if Reeves is concerned on this adaptation — nor does it specify whether or not the plan is for Cyberpunk 2077 to grow to be a movie (which might most likely make extra sense from a budgetary perspective) or a TV present (which could make extra sense from a scope/storytelling perspective). It does say that “the new project is at an early development stage and has currently commenced searching for a screenwriter to tell a brand-new story set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077.”
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In the Cyberpunk 2077 sport, Reeves performs Johnny Silverhand, a lifeless rock star whose spirit is uploaded into the thoughts of the sport’s primary character V. Set in a darkish future, V wants to work out how to disentangle himself and Johnny, whereas uncovering the kind of sci-fi conspiracy that all the time appears to be occurring in dystopian tales.
There’s already been an animated collection based mostly on the identical property on Netflix, 2022’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners; the present was standard sufficient that it’s been credited with growing curiosity within the authentic sport, which was marred by technical issues on its preliminary launch again in 2020. A sport sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 was formally introduced within the fall of 2022. A derivative sport, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, was simply launched as nicely.
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