{"id":796514,"date":"2026-10-09T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796514\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:12:12","slug":"cyberpunk-2077-movie-adaptation-in-the-works-at-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796514\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk 2077 Movie Adaptation In The Works At Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sci-fi cinema has taken us to many weird, wonderful, and tech-suffused worlds over the years \u2014 from the dust-strewn, neon-lit Los Angeles of Blade Runner<\/a> (and its 2049<\/a> and 2099<\/a> follow-ups) to The Matrix<\/a>‘s Mega City, Akira<\/a>‘s Neo-Tokyo, and RoboCop<\/a>‘s gritty, industrial Detroit. And soon, we’ll be punching our ticket and hopping on the metro to add Night City to that list, as Deadline<\/a> is reporting that CD Projekt Red’s bestselling RPG Cyberpunk 2077<\/a> is gearing up to receive the blockbuster video game adaptation<\/a> treatment at Paramount, with Transformers<\/a> franchise mainstay Lorenzo Di Bonaventura attached to produce.<\/p>\n

According to Deadline, Paramount’s movie \u2014 which will join the likes of Sonic The Hedgehog<\/a>, Halo<\/a>, and the upcoming Street Fighter<\/a> and Call Of Duty<\/a> movies in the studio’s game-to-screen stable \u2014 will be “a live-action film set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe”. As such, it sounds as if the project, which currently has no director or screenwriter attached, will be free to diverge from \u2014 or at least not directly adapt \u2014 CD Projekt Red’s game. For those unfamiliar with said game, the plot broadly follows reluctantly biochip-enhanced mercenary V and their fight to take down nefarious Night City overlords the Asaka Corporation before their consciousness is fully overwritten by legendary rockstar\/terrorist Johnny Silverhand… who just so happens to be played in the game by actual legendary rockstar, actor, and not-terrorist Keanu Reeves. As for where Paramount’s Cyberpunk will head, the possibilities are pretty much endless. Heck, for all we know, maybe Idris Elba’s charisma cannon of a government agent Solomon Reed, first introduced in the game’s very popular Phantom Liberty<\/a> expansion, might even make an appearance.<\/p>\n

Given the previous success of Cyberpunk’s anime offshoot, Edgerunners<\/a>, along with the eye-catching aesthetic, epic sprawl and scope, and timely thematic concerns explored within the Cyberpunk universe, the prospect of seeing that world realised on the big screen \u2014 especially amid a new era of peak game-to-screen adaptations \u2014 is a tantalising one, indeed. The campaign for Keanu Reeves to reprise Johnny Silverhand in the movie starts here, friends. Grab your iron… let’s mobilise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sci-fi cinema has taken us to many weird, wonderful, and tech-suffused worlds over the years \u2014 from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}