Video game Cyberpunk 2077 to get live-action movie adaptation

Paramount Pictures is developing a live‑action film adaptation of the hit video game Cyberpunk 2077, with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura—known for his work on the Transformers franchise—collaborating with CD Projekt Red. CD Projekt Red’s joint‑chief enforcement MichaÂł Nowakowski stated, “excited astir Paramount arsenic a aboriginal spouse who shares our originative ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise”. Details regarding the plot, potential release window and casting have not yet been disclosed. Although the game endured a troubled launch in 2020, Cyberpunk 2077—which features Keanu Reeves as the rock‑icon Johnny Silverhand, whose consciousness resides on a chip within protagonist V—has surpassed 40 million copies sold worldwide. Set in Night City, a fictional metropolis portraying a dystopian version of California, the game tasks players with exposing a conspiracy linked to the Arasaka megacorporation. The 2023 expansion Phantom Liberty, starring Idris Elba, has moved more than 15 million units, according to CDPR. The franchise has already seen success in animated form with Netflix’s Edgerunners; a second season is slated to debut early this month. Netflix also produces The Witcher, an adaptation of CDPR’s wildly popular fantasy RPG series, which originally starred Henry Cavill before Liam Hemsworth took over the role in the fourth season. Read the full story at BBC News →