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Cyberpunk 2077 Live-Action Series in Development from CD Projekt Red

CD Projekt Red is developing and adapting its Cyberpunk 2077 franchise with Anonymous Content for a live-action series set in the universe.

It seems video game developer CD Projekt Red is looking to expand, turning its world of Cyberpunk 2077 into the next bold step into live-action. Perhaps inspired in part by the success of the Netflix live-action TV adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, CD Projekt Red developed the video game adaptation of the novels. The company already adapted a spinoff in the form of an anime prequel series called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners in 2022 for Netflix, working with Studio Tiger. Their latest live-action untitled project with Anonymous Content will also be set in that universe.

CD Projekt Red announced their Cyberpunk 2077 creative team as well as Garrett Kemble, Anonymous Content Studios' head of television, its director of development Ryan Schwartz, and CCO David Levine. Levine previously served as HBO's executive VP and co-head of drama for more than a decade, churning out hits like True Detective, Westworld, and True Blood. Kemble, Levine, Schwartz, and Bard Dorros will produce for Anonymous along with Charlie Scully.

Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 25 million copies and recently released its latest expansion in Phantom Liberty. The open-world action-adventure game is set in a dystopian future at Night City, a megalopolis driven by power, glamour, and body modification. The player takes control of a mercenary outlaw named V, who's on the search for a one-of-a-kind implant that can potentially be a key to immortality. Aiding V is rocker-turned-revolutionary Johnny Silverhand, voiced by Keanu Reeves, who is discovered to be the key to solving the mystery of the implant.

Not only does Reeves reprise his role as Silverhand, but joining the cast for Phantom Liberty is Idris Elba, who plays sleeper agent Solomon Reed. Edgerunners was co-created by Mike Pondsmith, who's the visionary behind Cyberpunk and showrunner Rafal Jaki. It would naturally be a fit if Pondsmith also be involved in the live-action series, especially given the recent slate of successful video game adaptations on the small and big screen, most famously with the Neil Druckmann (Naughty Dog) and Craig Mazin-created HBO series The Last of Us, with its second season in development.

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