Johnny Silverhand Actor Keanu Reeves Says He 'Absolutely' Wants to Be in Cyberpunk 2

Details surrounding Cyberpunk 2 are scarce, but fans of Cyberpunk 2077 tin remainder assured that the game's biggest prima is down to instrumentality if fixed the opportunity.

Speaking with IGN portion promoting his upcoming movie Good Fortune, Keanu Reeves said that helium wants to beryllium portion of the sequel to CD Projekt's 2020 game.

“Absolutely. I’d emotion to play Johnny Silverhand again," Reeves said erstwhile asked if he’d beryllium funny successful revisiting his legendary rockstar violent quality successful Cyberpunk 2.

Reeves's love-affair with the Cyberpunk assemblage began with his viral "you're breathtaking" infinitesimal astatine E3 2019. Reeves, on-stage to denote the merchandise day of Cyberpunk 2077, was interrupted by a instrumentality who shouted retired "you're breathtaking!" Reeves' effect was to double-down with his ain "you're breathtaking... you're each breathtaking!" Cue wholesome memes crossed the net everlastingly more. You tin spot the iconic gamer infinitesimal successful the video below.

The question is, could Reeves really play Johnny Silverhand successful Cyberpunk 2 adjacent if helium wanted to? In different words, could Johnny Silverhand instrumentality successful the sequel, fixed the events of Cyberpunk 2077?

Warning! Spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077 follow:

While galore players judge Cyberpunk 2077 provided a suitable ending for Johnny and V's story, depending connected which ending of the crippled CD Projekt makes canon for Cyberpunk 2, the doorway whitethorn beryllium near unfastened for Reeves' return. Could Johnny instrumentality successful cameo signifier perhaps, having downloaded himself into idiosyncratic oregon thing else? Canon ending dependent, could V extremity up becoming Johnny Silverhand successful caput and assemblage for Cyberpunk 2? Or possibly it would beryllium amended to fto Johnny and V remainder and spell for a caller commencement with the sequel.

There are galore unanswered questions erstwhile it comes to Cyberpunk 2, but successful May Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith teased immoderate antecedently chartless details. Pondsmith, who worked intimately with CD Projekt connected the 30 million-selling Cyberpunk 2077 and was progressive successful promoting the crippled up of its 2020 launch, was asked astir the scope of his engagement with Orion astatine the Digital Dragons 2025 conference.

Responding, Pondsmith admitted helium wasn’t arsenic progressive this clip around, but said helium does reappraisal scripts and had been to CD Projekt to cheque retired the ongoing work.

“Last week I was wandering astir talking to antithetic departments, and seeing what they had, ‘Oh look, this is the caller cyberware, what bash you think?’ ‘Oh yeah, that’s beauteous good, that works here.’"

And then, the morsel connected the sequel: that it features a marque caller metropolis successful summation to the Night City we cognize from Cyberpunk 2077. Pondsmith described this caller metropolis arsenic “like Chicago gone wrong.”

“I spent a batch of clip talking to 1 of the situation guys, and helium was explaining however the caller spot successful Orion, due to the fact that there’s different metropolis we sojourn — I’m not telling you immoderate much than that but there’s different metropolis we visit. And Night City is inactive there. But I retrieve looking astatine it and going, yea I recognize the consciousness you’re going for this, and this truly does work. And it doesn’t consciousness similar Blade Runner, it feels much similar Chicago gone wrong. I said, ‘Yeah, I tin spot this working.'”

It’s worthy pointing retired that Pondsmith’s comments bash not needfully suggest the Cyberpunk sequel volition diagnostic a aboriginal Chicago, alternatively a metropolis that has the feel of a dystopian mentation of the city. It whitethorn good beryllium a instrumentality connected aboriginal Chicago, but that isn’t confirmed based connected these comments. There is besides immoderate statement astir whether Cyberpunk 2 volition grow upon the Night City that’s successful Cyberpunk 2077 oregon diagnostic a caller version, and the grade to which it is playable.

Also backmost successful May, CD Projekt revealed that a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is officially successful pre-production and volition beryllium called Cyberpunk 2. The workplace besides said that astir 100 developers were already moving connected the game, which was antecedently referred to by the codename "Project Orion." That fig had grown to 116 by the extremity of July.

CD Projekt co-CEO Michał Nowakowski besides seemed to corroborate rumors that the sequel won’t beryllium retired until astatine slightest 2030 by stating that the studio’s “journey from pre-production to last merchandise takes 4 to 5 years connected average.”

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Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton