BRZRKR Teams Star And Creator Keanu Reeves With Director Justin Lin For Netflix Live-Action Adaptation
Team-building is on deck for Netflix’s BRZRKR, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s own Borys Kit who notes that former Fast saga cohort Justin Lin will direct a live-action adaptation of the Boom! Studios comic created by Keanu Reeves. Also on hand is The Batman: Part II scribe Mattson Tomlin for the film’s script, as well as its animated spinoff.
BRZRKR is a brutally epic saga about an immortal warrior’s 80,000 year fight through the ages. The man known only as “B” is half-mortal and half-god, , cursed and compelled to violence… even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the earth for centuries, B may have finally found a refuge – working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B will be granted the one thing he desires – the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence…and how to end it.
Reeves is also producing alongside Stephen Christy for Boom!, Stephen Hamel of Company Films, and Ross Richie, as well as Lin for Perfect Storm.
The project, announced back in 2021, reportedly marks a reunion for Lin and his incumbent BRZRKR star and partner, who came in at a crucial moment to invest in Lin’s latest drama, Last Days, when financing fell through. The movie premiered at Sundance back in January.
Reeves’s “BRZRKR” remains a best seller for Boom!, having sold 600,000 copies of the first issue. The comic sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, and also includes BRZRKR-adjacent novel, “The Book of Elsewhere,” which published last year from Penguin Random House shingle, Del Rey.
The actor is currently the voice for the role of Shadow in Jeff Fowler’s latest animated hybrid Sonic The Hedgehog threequel for Paramount, and will next appear in a reprisal of his John Wick character in the Ana de Armas-starrer, Ballerina, in June from Lionsgate.
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Lead image: Boom! via Netflix/Bryan Berlin via Wikimedia Commons
