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A live-action movie version of smash hit video game Cyberpunk 2077 is being developed by Paramount Pictures.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Hollywood studio is working with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, known for his work on the Transformers films, and CD Projekt Red (CDPR), the developer of the sci-fi role-playing game.<\/p>\n
CDPR’s joint-chief executive Micha\u0142 Nowakowski said in a statement, external<\/span><\/a> the company was “excited about Paramount as a future partner who shares our creative ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise”.<\/p>\n Details of the film’s story, potential release date and casting information are yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n Despite a troubled launch in 2020<\/a>, the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, which stars Keanu Reeves, has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n The John Wick star plays rockstar Johnny Silverhand, a terrorist whose consciousness is stored on a chip inside the body of main character V.<\/p>\n Set in Night City, a fictional metropolis in a dystopian version of California, players work to uncover a conspiracy involving the shady Arasaka megacorporation.<\/p>\n An expansion, Phantom Liberty, starring Idris Elba was released in 2023<\/a> and has sold more than 15 million copies, according to CDPR.<\/p>\n Cyberpunk has already been successfully adapted into a popular animated series – Edgerunners – with a second season due to premiere on Netflix later this month.<\/p>\n The streamer also produced The Witcher, an adaptation of CDPR’s massively popular fantasy role-playing series.<\/p>\n It originally starred former Superman actor Henry Cavill, but he was replaced by Liam Hemsworth in the show’s fourth season.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n