Online Series: BRZRKR on Netflix (Keanu Reeves)

[beowulf]

https://collider.com/keanu-reeves-brzrkr-netflix-movie-interview/

Netflix is turning Reeves' comic book into an R rated movie.

Before going any further, if you aren’t familiar with BRZRKR, the 12-issue series is about a “man known only as B. who's half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to violence...even at the sacrifice of his sanity. However, after wandering the world for centuries, B. may have finally found a refuge – working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B. will be granted the one thing he desires – the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence…and how to end it.”

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[izzy]

I haven’t read this, but wouldn’t the concept work better as a limited series?

 

[beowulf]

I haven’t read this, but wouldn’t the concept work better as a limited series?

Looks like there would also be an anime spin-off series

In addition, with Netflix having optioned the series for a live-action film adaptation that Reeves is set to both produce and star in, and shortly thereafter, voice the character in a BRZRKR anime spinoff series that will also stream on Netflix, I asked about the status of both adaptions. Reeves told me that Mattson Tomlin (writer of Project Power and one of the writers on The Batman) has been hired to write the live-action movie and it’s in the early stages of development. He also talked about the animated series. Here’s exactly what he said:

“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. 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. We’re working on trying to set up a company with the animation and we’ve hired a writer for the film Mattson Tomlin. He’s been cool and just starting to put things together. That’s where we’re at.”​