Night City is coming to theaters. Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action feature film set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, with veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura attached to produce alongside franchise rights holder CD Projekt Red.
Deadline broke the news in an exclusive report published Thursday morning, describing the project as being in the early developing stage. No writer, director, cast, or release date has been announced yet — this is a ground-floor announcement, the kind that signals a studio planting its flag on a major property well before cameras roll.
Di Bonaventura is a natural fit for the material. The producer's credits include the Transformers franchise, G.I. Joe, and Bumblebee — big, effects-driven blockbusters built on established IP, which is exactly the lane a Cyberpunk 2077 adaptation would occupy. CD Projekt Red's involvement as a co-producer is equally significant: the Poland-based developer has guarded the franchise closely, and its direct participation suggests the film will be developed with the game's creative stewards in the room rather than at arm's length.
The source material gives filmmakers plenty to work with. Cyberpunk 2077 is set in Night City, California, a neon-drenched metropolis run by warring megacorporations. Players take on the role of V, a mercenary who ends up with a biochip containing the engram of Johnny Silverhand — the rockerboy revolutionary whose consciousness begins overwriting V's own, forcing the two into an uneasy alliance against the Arasaka Corporation. It's a story about identity, mortality, and corporate power, wrapped in some of the most striking world-building in modern gaming.
The numbers explain why Paramount wants in. Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, an extraordinary figure for a game that launched to a notoriously rocky reception in 2020 before a years-long redemption arc — patches, the acclaimed Phantom Liberty expansion (itself a 15-million seller), and the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime turned it into one of the medium's great comeback stories. That arc, from disaster to beloved, has only deepened the franchise's cultural footprint.
The film also slots into a busy game-adaptation slate at Paramount. The studio has a Street Fighter adaptation co-produced with Legendary bowing October 16, and a Call of Duty film with Peter Berg directing and co-writing alongside Taylor Sheridan. Adding Night City to that lineup makes Paramount one of the most aggressive studios in the video-game-movie gold rush.
For fans, the obvious questions now begin: who plays V, whether Johnny Silverhand appears, and how a film captures a world defined by player choice. Those answers are a long way off. But with di Bonaventura producing and CD Projekt Red at the table, the project starts with more credibility than most game adaptations manage at this stage.
