CD Projekt Red has finally spoken up about the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie. The company said it doesn’t want to do a 1:1 adaptation of the game, instead telling a new story within the same universe.
"At this point, we can only say that we definitely don't want to make a film adaptation of the game," co-CEO Michał Nowakowski told Polish outlet PAP Biznes, via GamesRadar. "We want to tell a story in the world of Cyberpunk, but it won't be a one-to-one translation of the game's story."
The Cyberpunk movie is being created in partnership with Parmount, now under the Skydance banner after the recent merger. The film will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, of live-action Transformers fame.
It’ll be interesting to see how far the movie strays from the game, which featured a freelance mercenary called V who put a mysterious computer chip in their brain and ended up haunted by the digital ghost of Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand. I’d personally love them to go back, get Reeves back in, and tell Silverhand’s story before he ended up stuck in a chip.
Of course, the Cyberpunk universe — created by tabletop RPG designer Mike Pondsmith — is wide enough to tell a range of original stories. It’s fertile soil for pulling at themes of identity, autonomy, and the self as a ship of theseus to be modified and reprinted.
It sounds like a similar approach the company took to anime. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners feels like a faithful multimedia project within the world CDPR created — featuring locations and characters from the game world — but it tells a fresh story about original characters in its dystopian posthuman hellscape.
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