The Cyberpunk 2077 Film Will not Retrace the Sport’s Steps

CD Projekt Pink has lastly spoken up concerning the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film. The corporate stated it doesn’t wish 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 undoubtedly do not wish to make a movie adaptation of the sport,” co-CEO Michał Nowakowski instructed Polish outlet PAP Biznes, through GamesRadar. “We wish to inform a narrative on the earth 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 beneath the Skydance banner after the latest merger. The movie will probably 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 referred to 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 vast sufficient to inform a spread 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 feels like an identical method the corporate took to anime. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners seems like a trustworthy multimedia venture throughout the world CDPR created — that includes areas and characters from the sport world — however 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 recreation in its personal authentic 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 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.