Cyberpunk 2077 Will Have Twice As Much Keanu Reeves As Initially Planned

You hear quite a few stories like this about Reeves. When he really likes a project he seems to go all-in. Nice display of passion.

This is going to be an excellent adventure.

Great that he seems to be excited for it, that's an encouraging sign.

Nothing wrong with more Reeves.

Considering John Wick was originally just called Scorn (Bit of a lame title) til Reaves kept excitedly telling people he was doing a film called John Wick.... Yeah I can see this happening easy lol

Bill and ted Keanu reeves was excellent.hahaha.keanu is the man with the masterplan.word ☝ up son

This PS5 game is going to be awesome.

He convinced them with a pencil. A ****ing pencil. (By writing a very polite and respectful letter, of course).

My life can always use more Keanu in roles.

Its nice seeing a big movie actor getting really excited over a video game role, i feel a lot of them phone in the performance and are just doing it for an easy check so its nice that Reeves really seems to love this part.

Keanu Reeves is clearly a passionate person. He either doesn't do something or he goes all-in. And he doesn't shy away from showing that passion.
Kudos to him. He's breathtaking.

Good for those who like him, I guess. But for those of us who find him a wooden and really banal actor this isn't exactly great news. Add to that any actor/popstar appearing is breaking immersion so I'm also against it for that. I'm really looking forward to Cyberpunk but worry that they feel the game doesn't hold up on its own merit and that they need to bring in a 'star' or two to bolster its hip status.

Not sure what to feel.. Keannu is a god yes lol but i personally hate having known easily recognizable actors in things.. It just takes me out of the immersion.. Id rather him not be in it at all or just a small part.. It's turnin into KEANNU: THE GAME

@Eldritch yyeeeaaahhh im gonna have to kinda agree with ya

should have made him the player character, that would have been awesome

@Eldritch He's not that bad of an actor. He has a narrow range, but manages solid depth and competence if the character falls within that range. I don't think they're leaning on his star power too much in the game's development. Keanu isn't this game's only selling point, or even a major one. However, the marketing team sure isn't going to pass up the opportunity to push that angle after the positive attention he got on stage.

@Gmork___ It's weird that we're totally fine with actors playing different roles in different movies, but throw an actor's likeness into a game and it's jarring. I mean, I agree with you, but I wonder why...?

@NoxAeturnus I guess that's because live action movies need flesh and bone actors to impersonate characters, making it easier to stomach as non immersion-breaking, while in videogames there's really no need for actors, since you can model all the NPC's you want.

@NoxAeturnus that's your opinion and you're welcome to it but I think he's an abysmal actor with no talent. As far as I'm concerned he plays himself in every film; with the possible exception of Bill and Ted. Hardly great talent but hey. And I never said it was the game's only selling point. I just don't think he needs to be involved at all. Even if I was a fan I still wouldn't want him in it. I can see everybody is gushing over him but the game should be strong enough without his input. On the other hand perhaps he's appearing because he was cryogenically frozen. If so let's get that done as soon as possible so I can be spared any more of his, so called, acting.

@Constable_What Strange that Rockstar Games has the total opposite view to you. Hmmm I wonder which out of the two of you has the better grasp of what works?

@Constable_What It's not hard to find if you put in a little effort. But here you go. http://m.goliath.com/gaming/rockstar-wont-hire-famous-actors-for-its-games-anymore-and-burt-reynolds-is-partly-to-blame/ I guess that means I'm back to not being so ignorant. Which now puts you back into which position? They also talked about it in reference to RDR2 and the Indian guy being the only famous actor they would contemplate using these days. I just found your dismissive opinion of current voice actors worthy of condescension. There are some stunning voice actors about. Rockstar for one certainly picks talent. And I'm not talking about the stars. The actors doing the voices for people walking about in GTA or RDR have always helped majorly with immersion. But hey, I'm sure they can survive on the dole if you have your way and movie stars take on both roles.