Paramount Is Making a Cyberpunk 2077 Movie, With the Transformers Producer on It

Night City has sold more than 40 million copies of a game that launched as a punchline. Paramount wants the movie anyway.

Deadline reported on October 8 that the studio is developing a live-action film in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the producer who spent years turning Transformers toys into a franchise, is on it with CD Projekt Red. Michal Nowakowski, joint CEO of the studio, posted that night that Paramount shares their ambitions for the series and that details would come when they are ready. By Friday morning the Polish developer’s shares were up about 3%.

If you played it, you already know the shape. V, a merc in a California megacity, gets a biochip holding an engram of Johnny Silverhand, the rock star who is also a terrorist. Johnny starts overwriting V. The way out runs through Arasaka, the corporation that actually runs the place. Keanu Reeves made that ghost famous. Phantom Liberty, the expansion, has sold about 15 million on its own. As of the end of July, CDPR had 184 people on a sequel. No release window.

Paramount is collecting game movies the way some people collect jackets. Street Fighter, co-produced with Legendary, is due October 16. Call of Duty is aimed at June 30, 2028, with Peter Berg directing and Taylor Sheridan on the script. Cyberpunk is the one with a city people already argue about, a launch they still apologize for, and a recovery that quietly became one of the best open worlds of the decade.

CDPR staying on as producer matters more than the logo. Plenty of game adaptations get made by people who liked the trailer. This one at least has the studio that spent years patching Night City until it felt like a place.