CD Projekt Purple has lastly spoken up in regards to the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film. The corporate mentioned it doesn’t need to do a 1:1 adaptation of the sport, as an alternative telling a brand new story throughout the identical universe.
“At this level, we will solely say that we positively do not need to make a movie adaptation of the sport,” co-CEO Michał Nowakowski advised Polish outlet PAP Biznes, by way of GamesRadar. “We need to inform a narrative on this 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 latest merger. The movie might be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, of live-action Transformers fame.
It’ll be fascinating 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 huge sufficient to inform a variety 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 identical method the corporate took to anime. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners appears like a devoted multimedia mission throughout the world CDPR created — that includes places 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 collection 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 just lately introduced that work has formally begun on Undertaking Hadar, its first sport in its personal unique 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 bought a remaster on consoles and PC, which noticed the enduring RPG get a makeover. There have been some points with the brand new visuals, notably 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.