After first being teased during Netflix’s Geeked Week celebration in September, CD Projekt Red has confirmed that it’s working on a new “Cyberpunk” animation series to be released on Netflix.
The company’s chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz revealed the news as part of their quaterly financials report, adding that sales of the “Cyberpunk 2077” game have now topped 30 million copies while the ‘Phantom Liberty’ expansion sold an additional eight million units.
Talking about cross-media opportunities for the brand he said: “I’m also very happy to announce that we’re working on another animation project set in the Cyberpunk universe, which will be released on Netflix.”
The show will follow in the wake of the acclaimed “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners,” a standalone ONA mini-series which premiered in 2022 and served as a prequel to the game.
What wasn’t confirmed is who is handling the animation for the new one. ‘Edgerunners’ was done with Tokyo-based Studio Trigger.
Meanwhile the live-action “Cyberpunk” series announced a year ago is “still in the conceptual stage” of development says CD Projekt joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski. He explains that there has been progress nonetheless:
“I mean, the conceptual stage has various stages of advancement, so we’re for sure further in than we were a year ago, but we’re also not yet at the stage where we would be shopping around the concept to potential streamers or studios.
I’d say it’s probably a similar window between here and now as was between when we announced it about a year ago and today, so within that window I would expect we’re going to get to shopping [it] around.”
That live-action project was announced last year and is being developed alongside Anonymous Content. It will reportedly feature an all-new story set within the world of the original game.
Nielubowicz meanwhile also announced that “The Witcher 4” game has entered full-scale production, and development of the “Cyberpunk 2077” sequel is being headed by CD Projekt Red’s studios in Boston and Vancouver.
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