Cyberpunk 2077 is said to be getting several adaptations, including a live-action TV series. So where do things stand now? Its developers have an update.
CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 is surely one of the more cinematic videogames of modern times. Part Blade Runner, part Neuromancer, it features motion-captured performances from the likes of Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba and has already spawned one incredible anime adaptation in the form of 2022’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
While the Polish game studio behind it has now decamped part of its team to America to begin work on a sequel, Cyberpunk 2077 is a world that is ripe for further adaptation and interpretation. That’s why it was exciting to hear a year ago that CDPR had partnered with Anonymous Content to begin developing twin adaptations of the game – one animated, one live-action.
As first reported by VGC, CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski used a recent earnings call to offer an update on the projects. Things are said to be moving, but the productions aren’t yet at the stage where they’re looking for studio or streamer partners: “I mean, the conceptual stage has various stages of advancement, so we’re for sure further in than we were a year ago,” explained Nowakowski, “but we’re also not yet at the stage where we would be shopping around the concept to potential streamers or studios.”
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Like Edgerunners, the animated project will stream on Netflix, with the streamer having established itself as the destination for anime adaptations of big videogame titles.
As for the live-action series, the joint CEO offered a timeline of when we can expect the project to be officially revealed along with its eventual destination: “I’d say it’s probably a similar window between here and now as was between when we announced it about a year ago and today, so within that window I would expect we’re going to get to shopping [it] around.”
So there you go: the studio is taking its time, and that’s not a bad thing. At some point in the next 12 months we should learn where the live action show will end up.
Amazon already has its own high-profile cyberpunk-flavoured live-action series underway in the form of Blade Runner 2099. With 30 million copies of the game sold worldwide though, Cyberpunk 2077 has profile, too, and we’d imagine that there’ll be plenty of interest in the project when it does finally emerge.
More on this as it comes in.
