Netflix has confirmed plans to show off a number of upcoming TV series based on video game properties next month, including Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
The series will be on show as part of Nexflix’s ‘Geeked Week’, which runs from June 6-10, as will the streaming platform’s upcomingResident Eviland Cuphead shows.
The event is billed as a five-day virtual fan fest featuring news, reveals and talent panels from the streaming platform’s upcoming shows.
Announced two years ago for release in 2022, Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a standalone anime series set in theCyberpunk 2077universe.
It’s directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) and features an original score composed byAkira Yamaoka(Silent Hill).
Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher developerCD Projekt Redis producing the series, which it has been working on since 2018.
According to the official blurb: “Cyberpunk Edgerunners tells a 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future.
“Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.”
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It releaseda teaser trailer for its Resident Evil serieslast week.
CD Projektclaimed in April thatCyberpunk 2077 has sold over 18 million copiessince its December 2020 release.
It also confirmed that is working ona major Cyberpunk 2077 expansion featuring a new storyline.
