CD Projekt Pink has lastly spoken up concerning the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film. The corporate mentioned it doesn’t wish to do a 1:1 adaptation of the sport, as an alternative telling a brand new story throughout the similar universe.
“At this level, we are able to solely say that we positively do not wish to make a movie adaptation of the sport,” co-CEO Michał Nowakowski advised Polish outlet PAP Biznes, through GamesRadar. “We wish to inform a narrative on this planet of Cyberpunk, nevertheless 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 latest 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 laptop 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.
After all, the Cyberpunk universe — created by tabletop RPG designer Mike Pondsmith — is extensive sufficient to inform a variety of authentic tales. It’s fertile soil for pulling at themes of identification, autonomy, and the self as a ship of theseus to be modified and reprinted.
It appears like an analogous method the corporate took to anime. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners looks like a devoted multimedia challenge throughout the world CDPR created — that includes places and characters from the sport world — nevertheless it tells a recent story about authentic 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. Try the IGN interview with the creators of Edgerunners for the lowdown.
CD Projekt additionally not too long ago introduced that work has formally begun on Undertaking Hadar, its first sport in its personal authentic universe. The corporate has beforehand solely performed within the worlds of others, with The Witcher primarily based on novels and Cyberpunk primarily based on a tabletop RPG.
Elsewhere in CD Undertaking Land, The Witcher 3 simply obtained a remaster on consoles and PC, which noticed the enduring 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.