EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film set in Cyberpunk 2077 universe, based on CD Projekt Red’s best-selling action-adventure RPG.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to produce alongside CD Projekt Red, the award-winning Poland-based video game developer and franchise rights holder.
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The game takes place in the fictional cyberpunk metropolis of Night City, California, within the dystopian Cyberpunk universe. At the center of the game is V, a mercenary who is reluctantly imbued with a cybernetic “biochip” containing an engram of legendary rockstar and terrorist Johnny Silverhand. As Silverhand’s consciousness begins to overwhelm V’s, the two must work together to separate and save V’s life by taking on the Arasaka Corporation, a powerful megacorporation acting as the de facto ruler of the city.
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, while its expansion, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Freedomsold 15 million copies.
Paramount has seen a lot of promise in the video game world lately. Cyberpunk 2077 is one of many video game adaptations offered. These include the next Street fighter adaptation that Paramount co-produced with Legendary. This film is released on October 16. They also have a movie based on the Call of Duty games for which Peter Berg directs and co-writes the screenplay with Taylor Sheridan.
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