Keanu Reeves’ Netflix Comic Book Movie Recruits The Batman Writer

Individuals love Netflix, individuals love comedian guide films and folks certain as hell love Keanu Reeves, so combining the three to create a multimedia universe based mostly on the beloved star’s graphic novel BRZRKR is a surefire recipe for achievement.

Simply weeks after the primary situation hit cabinets, it was introduced that the streaming service had acquired the rights to the property and positioned each live-action and animated options into improvement, with Reeves taking part in the title hero in each tasks.

The plan is for the live-action effort to return first, and it’s simply taken an enormous step ahead after hiring a author. In a brand new interview with Collider, Reeves revealed that Venture Energy and The Batman scribe Mattson Tomlin is on board to pen BRZRKR.

“We’re working with Netflix who’ve been very cool. They’re going to allow us to do an R-rated story which is cool. My ambition or hope is to not do a filmed model of the comedian guide in order that they’ll have issues in frequent, undoubtedly the primary character and his type of rule set, however that we will take it to different locations as properly. We’re speaking to a few completely different animation corporations and attempting to determine that out. And, once more, for me I’m hoping to be impressed and influenced.

There are some guidelines to the story, however I additionally need different creators to do their model of it. So I’m hoping to do a unique model of a metaverse the place within the sense having completely different storytellers with one algorithm however go different locations with it. We’re engaged on attempting to arrange an organization with the animation and we’ve employed a author for the movie Mattson Tomlin. He’s been cool and simply beginning to put issues collectively. That’s the place we’re at.”

The broad strokes of the plot comply with an immortal warrior by means of 80,000 years of bloody battles. Half mortal and half god, the mysterious determine referred to solely as ‘B’ gives his providers to the federal government so he can combat wars too violent, lethal and harmful for anyone else, in trade for info surrounding his cursed existence and a method to finish it.

In all honesty, that sounds superior. Keanu Reeves as an ass-kicking demigod who can’t die is about as sound a foundation for a franchise as you might hope for, and it follows Netflix’s latest precedent for building out franchises across multiple avenues as we’ve seen from The Witcher and Military of the Lifeless.