In 1995, Keanu Reeves appeared in a dystopian sci-fi movie called
Johnny Mnemonic. It was set in “January 2021” and imagined a world where the internet was a dangerous place, poisoning people’s minds. So it pretty much got all of that exactly right, but not even
Johnny Mnemonic predicted how truly bizarre the internet of 2021 would get, or how Keanu himself would get swept up in one of its stranger episodes.
Reeves is currently appearing as a key character in the video game
Cyberpunk 2077. In the game, Reeves’ likeness appears as “Johnny Silverhand,” a rockstar turned war veteran and cybernetic badass. Beyond Johnny’s robot arm, he pretty much looks exactly like Keanu Reeves. Which kind of poses a problem, when players are using mods to alter the game and in particular one that allows them to put any character’s likeness in the game onto another player model. Specifically, players used the mod to make a “sexbot” character named joy toy look like Kea
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The $120m+ gaming flop
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Cyberpunk 2077: A $120m+ game that could be the industry’s biggest flop ever
Here’s a useful heuristic: If Keanu Reeves is the face of your project and it flops, then there’s something wrong with your project.
Well, Keanu is the face of the game Cyberpunk 2077 and things have been so bad since its Dec. 10 release that the studio behind it (CD Projekt Red) has seen its stock fall
40%+ since the start of the month.
Set in a dystopian future (think
Blade Runner), the game was one of the most anticipated of the decade with the project launching in 2012 and costing $120m+.