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Keanu Reeves Will Star in a Live-Action Film Adaptation of His Comic Book ‘BRZRKR’ for Netflix!

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Launched this year, Keanu Reeves co-wrote and co-created a comic series titled BRZRKR, notable for featuring a badass hero who looks a whole lot like, well, Keanu Reeves himself!

The hope was that BRZRKR would eventually be adapted for the screen, and that’s precisely what is now happening. Variety reports this week that Reeves will star in a live-action feature film adaptation of the tale for Netflix, with an animated series also in the works. Reeves will be producing the anime series, and reportedly also voicing his character from the film.

BRZRKR is being described as a “brutally epic saga about an immortal warrior’s 80,000 year fight through the ages. The man known only as ‘B’ (Reeves) is half-mortal and half-god, cursed and compelled to violence… even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the earth 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.”

Reeves is once again a hot commodity in Hollywood thanks to the increasingly successful John Wick franchise, and it looks like Netflix is hoping to capitalize with a whole universe of BRZRKR tales in the coming years. It’s a smart move, as the property is absolutely ripe with potential for a kickass movie & TV franchise – especially with Reeves himself in the central role.

Published by BOOM! Studios, BRZRKR was written by Reeves and Matt Kindt.

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Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’

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In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.

Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).

The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.

The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”

Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”

Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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