Movie star cameos in videogames are hit or miss. Nicki Minaj in Warzone? Large nope for me. Kevin Spacey in Name of Responsibility: Superior Warfare? Actually one thing. However generally, it is simply good. Charlie Cox and Andy Serkis in Expedition 33, for instance, or Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba in Cyberpunk 2077. However, for the universe’s creator Mike Pondsmith, getting Reeves – “the nicest man on earth” – play the “unimaginable jerk” that’s Johnny Silverhand felt fairly ironic. However, he fell in love with Reeves’ unhealthy boy rocker, and would like to see him reprise the position when the sequel rolls round.
“I mentioned, that is actually bizarre, the nicest man on earth is enjoying an unimaginable jerk,” Pondsmith says on CD Venture Purple’s newest Cyberpunk 2077 stream. “If Dolan [Pondsmith’s daughter] introduced Johnny Silverhand residence and mentioned ‘that is my new boyfriend,’ I do not know whether or not I might shoot her first, him first, or each of them simply to avoid wasting the catastrophe. However he is good [as Silverhand] and he likes it! I did not assume he’d ever play a Cyberpunk character once more, however I believe he obtained the correct Cyberpunk character.”
“His Johnny has actually grown on me; I like the best way he performs Johnny,” he continues, noting that the RPG’s antagonist is not only a “jerk; he has all of those parts beneath him that say that he actually could possibly be a greater individual. I used to be amazed at that, however I favored it. I believed it labored.”
Pondsmith was additionally unaware that Idris Elba had been solid as Solomon Reed in Phantom Liberty, recalling that he requested CDPR if “we have been going to get in hassle as a result of that man appears so much like Idris Elba – he is most likely going to sue. And [CDPR]’s going ‘it’s Idris.’ What? So let me get this straight: you get Keanu Reeves, then you definitely get Idris Elba – what’s subsequent, Scarlett Johansson? Scarlett, I’ve roles for you, you are able to do something.
“However two issues hit me: [Reeves and Elba] labored very well for the characters. They have been actors who wished to play these characters so that they immersed themselves in it and did an excellent job. Not that way back I noticed that Keanu wish to discover a strategy to come again from the lifeless and play Johnny once more. I’ve methods to try this, Keanu: contact me.”
Whereas I’ve struggled to actually love Cyberpunk 2077, I can not deny that Reeves’ efficiency is totally good. He is the voice in your head; the whisper that urges you to do unhealthy issues; the petulant little one when he does not get what he needs. Reeves does a tremendous job in just about every thing he does, however his Silverhand efficiency is a private favourite.
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