Keanu Reeves Action Movie Brzrkr Nabs Fast & Furious Director

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Keanu Reeves Action Movie Brzrkr Nabs Fast & Furious Director

BRZRKR, the comic book created by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt that had a long-in-development movie adaptation planned, has finally found a director set to tackle the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Who is directing BRZRKR?

Justin Lin, the director behind several Fast & Furious entries, as well as 2016’s Star Trek Beyond and the upcoming drama Last Days, will direct the comic adaptation for Netflix, according to THR’s report.

Reeves — who previously gave himself a 33% chance to direct the movie himself — will star in the movie, and will also produce the film, alongside Stephen Christy for Boom! Studios, Stepehen Hamel for Company Films, Ross Richie, and Justin Lin, the latter of whom will produce via his Perfect Storm banner.

The latest known information about the movie is that Mattson Tomlin (who co-wrote the upcoming The Batman Part II) wrote the script for the movie, which is described as a “brutally epic saga about an immortal warrior’s 80,000 year fight through the ages. The man known only as ‘B’ 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.”

The original comic was created by Reeves and Kindt in 2021, and tells the story of an immortal warrior, known as Berzerker, who fights his way through different time periods. Running as a 12-issue limited series beginning in March 2021, the book was originally funded via Kickstarter, earning more than $1.4 million on the crowdfunding site.

Since its release, various adaptations of the project have been announced, including the Netflix film and a two-season anime adaptation that Production I.G will produce. No official release dates for either project have been announced as of now.

In 2024, a novel based on the comics, titled The Book of Elsewhere and written by China Miéville and Reeves, became a New York Times best-seller.