CD Projekt Purple has lastly spoken up about the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie. The corporate mentioned it doesn’t need to do a 1:1 adaptation of the sport, as a substitute telling a brand new story inside the identical universe.
“At this level, we will solely say that we undoubtedly do not need to make a movie adaptation of the sport,” co-CEO Michał Nowakowski instructed Polish outlet PAP Biznes, by way of GamesRadar. “We need to inform a narrative on the planet of Cyberpunk, however it will not be a one-to-one translation of the sport’s story.”
The Cyberpunk film is being created in partnership with Parmount, now below the Skydance banner after the recent merger. The movie will likely be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, of live-action Transformers fame.
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how far the film strays from the sport, which featured a contract mercenary known as V who put a mysterious pc chip of their mind and ended up haunted by the digital ghost of Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand. I’d personally love them to return, get Reeves again in, and inform Silverhand’s story earlier than he ended up caught in a chip.
In fact, the Cyberpunk universe — created by tabletop RPG designer Mike Pondsmith — is broad sufficient to inform a spread of unique tales. It’s fertile soil for pulling at themes of id, autonomy, and the self as a ship of theseus to be modified and reprinted.
It appears like an analogous strategy the corporate took to anime. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners seems like a trustworthy multimedia venture inside the world CDPR created — that includes areas and characters from the sport world — however it tells a recent story about unique characters in its dystopian posthuman hellscape.
The Studio Set off-led anime sequence is again on Netflix this month when Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Season 2 launches on October 20. Take a look at the IGN interview with the creators of Edgerunners for the lowdown.
CD Projekt also recently announced that work has officially begun on Project Hadar, its first sport in its personal unique universe. The corporate has beforehand solely performed within the worlds of others, with The Witcher based mostly on novels and Cyberpunk based mostly on a tabletop RPG.
Elsewhere in CD Undertaking Land, The Witcher 3 simply acquired a remaster on consoles and PC, which noticed the long-lasting RPG get a makeover. There have been some points with the brand new visuals, significantly heavy bloom in The Witcher 3 remaster, however CDPR was on the case rapidly. And naturally, Cyberpunk 2 is within the works, though it feels years away.