CD Projekt Purple has lastly spoken up about the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film. The firm stated it doesn’t wish to do a 1:1 adaptation of the sport, as an alternative telling a brand new story inside the similar universe.
“At this level, we are able to solely say that we undoubtedly do not wish to make a movie adaptation of the sport,” co-CEO Michał Nowakowski advised Polish outlet PAP Biznes, by way of GamesRadar. “We wish to inform a narrative in the world of Cyberpunk, but it surely 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 vast 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 seems like the same method the firm took to anime. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners looks like a trustworthy multimedia challenge inside the world CDPR created — that includes places and characters from the sport world — but it surely tells a contemporary 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. 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 unique universe. The firm has beforehand solely performed in 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 iconic RPG get a makeover. There have been some points with the new visuals, significantly heavy bloom in The Witcher 3 remaster, however CDPR was on the case shortly. And naturally, Cyberpunk 2 is in the works, though it feels years away.