{"id":91454,"date":"2026-10-16T07:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91454"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:36:36","slug":"the-live-action-cyberpunk-2077-movie-wont-retrace-the-games-steps-cd-projekt-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91454","title":{"rendered":"The Live-Action Cyberpunk 2077 Movie Won&#8217;t Retrace the Game&#8217;s Steps, CD Projekt Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>CD Projekt Red has finally spoken up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/a-live-action-cyberpunk-2077-movie-is-in-the-works-at-paramount\">the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie<\/a>. The company said it doesn\u2019t want to do a 1:1 adaptation of the game, instead telling a new story within the same universe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, we can only say that we definitely don&#8217;t want to make a film adaptation of the game,&#8221; co-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski told Polish outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/biznes.pap.pl\/wiadomosci\/firmy\/cd-projekt-red-nie-chce-aktorski-cyberpunk-byl-klasyczna-ekranizacja-widzi\">PAP Biznes<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/live-action-movies\/cd-projekt-red-hints-that-the-live-action-cyberpunk-movie-will-be-an-original-story-we-definitely-dont-want-to-make-an-adaptation-of-the-game\/\">GamesRadar<\/a>. &#8220;We want to tell a story in the world of Cyberpunk, but it won&#8217;t be a one-to-one translation of the game&#8217;s story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cyberpunk movie is being created in partnership with Parmount, now under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/batman-lord-of-the-rings-and-harry-potter-feature-in-first-trailer-for-skydance-the-newly-named-parent-company-for-a-merged-warner-bros-and-paramount\">Skydance banner after the recent merger<\/a>. The film will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, of live-action Transformers fame. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-images\" data-value=\"cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-images\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see how far the movie strays from the game, which featured a freelance mercenary called V who put a mysterious computer chip in their brain and ended up haunted by the digital ghost of Keanu Reeves\u2019 Johnny Silverhand. I\u2019d personally love them to go back, get Reeves back in, and tell Silverhand\u2019s story before he ended up stuck in a chip. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Cyberpunk universe \u2014 created by tabletop RPG designer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red has finally spoken up about the live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie. The company said it doesn\u2019t want to do a 1:1 adaptation of the game, instead telling a new story within the same universe. &#8220;At this point, we can only say that we definitely don&#8217;t want to make a film adaptation of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":91456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91458,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91454\/revisions\/91458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}