CD Projekt Wants a Cyberpunk Movie That Leaves the Game's Plot Alone
Co-CEO Michal Nowakowski told PAP the Paramount film will be a story in the world, and the studio does not want a one-to-one adaptation. Edgerunners returns on Netflix on Oct 20.
The Cyberpunk movie is real, and it is trying very hard not to be a walkthrough.
Michal Nowakowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt, told Polish outlet PAP Biznes that the old deal with Anonymous Content had expired, and that a chance to work with Paramount showed up in the gap. The live-action project, he said, would run in a new formula. Then the sentence that matters: they definitely do not want to make a film adaptation of the game. They want a story set in the Cyberpunk world, and it will not be the game’s story copied across one to one. Details come when both sides are ready. He did not name who is in it.
That is a different promise from the one people heard on October 8, when Deadline reported Paramount and the studio were making a movie at all. A one-to-one of V’s job, the relic, the clock in the head, would have forced the film to pick an ending the game lets you choose. Night City is already full of other jobs. The anime proved the setting can carry people who never touched a controller.
Nowakowski was explicit about why the screen versions exist. After Edgerunners in 2022, people came back to Cyberpunk 2077 and stayed above the old sales line for months. He hopes the same thing happens when the next anime run hits Netflix on October 20. The film is the slower version of that bet. It does not have a date. It does have a rule: the game already told V’s story, and the movie is being built to tell a different one in the same city.