Reeves Reveals “BRZRKR” Project Update

The one and only Keanu Reeves has offered an update as to how the planned live-action film adaptation of the Reeves co-created graphic novel “BRZRKR”.

New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt penned and famed Marvel artist Ron Garney illustrated the twelve-issue comic series which originated from an idea Reeves had been developing for a number of years.

Speaking with Collider, the actor says the film is still in pre-production with “The Batman” scribe Mattson Tomlin having been hired to pen the adaptation which is being developed as an R-rated story:

“We’re working with Netflix who have been very cool. They’re going to let us do an R-rated story which is cool. My ambition or hope is not to do a filmed version of the comic book so that they’ll have things in common, definitely the main character and his kind of rule set, but that we can take it to other places as well.”

The plan is for both a live-action film and an anime TV series with Reeves starring in both. With the anime, Reeves hopes it will allow for plenty of other artists to help shape a universe:

“We’re talking to a couple of different animation companies and trying to figure that out. And, again, for me I’m hoping to be inspired and influenced…there are some rules to the story, but I also want other creators to do their version of it. So I’m hoping to do a different version of a metaverse where in the sense having different storytellers with one set of rules but go other places with it.”

Reeves will star in “BRZRKR”as the half-mortal/half-god ‘B’ and follows the warrior’s 80,000-year brutal fight through the ages. He’s a man cursed and compelled to violence and wandered the earth for centuries.

Now he’s found refuge working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, he is granted the one thing he desires – the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence…and how to end it.

Reeves, Stephen Hamel, Ross Richie and Stephen Christy will produce.