UPDATE 12PM BST: CD Projekt Pink appears to have confirmed the partnership and movie, with joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski commenting on X that: “We’re enthusiastic about Paramount as a future companion who shares our inventive ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise. We stay up for sharing extra particulars on the acceptable time.”
ORIGINAL STORY 11:40AM BST: A live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie is reportedly within the works at Paramount Footage. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura – a former Warner Bros. exec influential in signing the The Matrix and Harry Potter movies, and identified for producing the Transformers movies – is claimed to be connected to the mission, with CD Projekt Pink collaborating.
The report comes from Deadline, although the publication had no additional info to share than what’s above. CD Projekt Pink advised us it doens’t have something to share past what Nowakowski stated on X.
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Believing that CD Projekt Pink would enterprise into live-action movie territory would not take a stretch of the creativeness. The corporate’s Netflix anime partnership on Cyberpunk Edgerunners has been successful, with a second sequence because of air this month, on twentieth October. The primary season, launched in 2022, was “improbable”, Wes wrote in his Cyberpunk Edgerunners impressions article, and amassed appreciable Netflix viewing figures.
Stay-action variations of video game-based sequence are additionally changing into more and more well-liked, with The Final of Us and Fallout notably discovering large success. CD Projekt Pink being concerned with the Cyberpunk 2077 adaptation would additionally considerably heal a wound left by not being concerned with The Witcher Netflix adaptation. CD Projekt artwork director Pawel Mileniczuk known as this a “missed alternative” once I talked to him for a Witcher 3 10-year anniversary article final 12 months.
In the meantime, CD Projekt Pink is engaged on Cyberpunk 2, a mission that is in pre-production, however with an increasing staff – near 200 individuals as of thirty first July 2026 – full manufacturing would not appear far-off. The sequel apparently provides a second metropolis alongside the long-lasting Evening Metropolis setting, and it is described as being like “Chicago gone mistaken”.
Ought to the live-action movie show actual, and be made, the questions are what story will it inform – the identical as in Cyberpunk 2077? – and which actors will play the sport’s well-known roles? Probably the most well-known of these roles is Keanu Reeves’ portrayal of Johnny Silverhand, a personality who used Reeves’ likeness within the sport. Might Reeves star in a movie adaptation?
Cyberpunk 2077 was launched in 2021, and its rocky launch has since develop into notorious. However CD Projekt Pink did in depth work bettering the sport after launch, focusing its efforts round a form of 2.0 relaunch alongside the sport’s “exceptional” Phantom Liberty enlargement, in 2023.
Paramount, in the meantime, just lately acquired Warner Bros., and has since reorganised into mega-company Skydance. Activision’s former chief Bobby Kotick has been employed on the board of it.