Paramount to adapt Cyberpunk 2077 video game into live-action film

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 8 Oct, 21:55 · Archive

Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film based on CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 video game.

Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film adaptation of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, with CD Projekt Red attached as producer alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the producer of the Transformers films.

No release date, plot details or cast have been announced. CD Projekt Red joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski said the company was 'excited about Paramount as a future partner who shares our creative ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise' and that they look forward to sharing more details at an appropriate time.

The game itself has become a major success for CD Projekt Red since its 2020 launch, surpassing 40 million copies sold. It has already been adapted into a Netflix anime series, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which is set to return for a second season. CD Projekt Red is also developing a sequel to the game, called Cyberpunk 2, with 184 people assigned to the project.

How it is being reported

• Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatmentParamount Pictures will develop the film and CD Projekt Red will produce.Engadget · 8 Oct, 21:30
• Paramount is making a Cyberpunk 2077 filmCyberpunk 2077 is heading to the big screen. Deadline reports that CD Projekt Red's popular sci-fi video game franchise is being adapted into a live-action film by Paramount Pictures. There's no details just yet on when the film might premiere. But Deadline says that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who is known for producing the Transformers films, […]The Verge · 8 Oct, 20:14

In this story: Paramount Pictures · CD Projekt Red · Lorenzo di Bonaventura · Michał Nowakowski · Netflix

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