In an interview with ScreenRant forward of the discharge of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Idris Elba expressed a need to return to Night time Metropolis together with his Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty co-star, Keanu Reeves, ideally for a live-action undertaking.
When requested if he had any curiosity in such a undertaking, Elba stated that “I feel if any movie may do a live-action rendition, it could possibly be [Cyberpunk 2077], and I feel [Reeves’] character and my character collectively can be ‘Whoa.’ So let’s communicate that into existence.”
Keeanu Reeves’ position as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 risked being a stunt casting on the order of Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean’s sleepy, restricted appearances in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. However not solely was Reeves well-utilized, with Silverhand your fixed companion commenting on even essentially the most throwaway aspect quests, he additionally knocked it out of the park with a layered efficiency because the blustery terrorist with a coronary heart of gold. CDPR adopted this up with one other nice superstar casting within the Phantom Liberty enlargement, with Elba’s Solomon Reed stealing the present as a sleeper agent spy seeking to are available from the chilly—even when that meant hurting folks he’d come to care about.
CD Projekt is at present pursuing a live-action Cyberpunk one thing, however the aspirational tone of Elba’s assertion makes it sound like he hasn’t gotten any calls about it. A giant complication to Elba and Reeves getting an enormous display screen Cyberpunk reunion is that their tales had been fairly neatly wrapped up within the recreation. Whereas the door is likely to be open for any variety of digital ghost gestalt Johnny Silverhand shenanigans down the road, Solomon Reed ends Phantom Liberty totally jaded and in some method of “too previous for this shit” retirement as a greatest case state of affairs.
Any future live-action outings in Night time Metropolis will rely upon the success of CDPR’s upcoming undertaking, however even when it is an Edgerunners-level blowout success, I discover it laborious to think about a state of affairs the place Elba and Reeves would seem reverse one another as Reed and Silverhand in a follow-up. Greater than something, I am simply charmed and heartened to listen to that Elba appears to have had fun engaged on Phantom Liberty and thinks of it fondly—his efficiency as Reed actually was a spotlight of that phenomenal enlargement pack.
