Keanu Reeves is heading back to Comic-Con. Per IGN, the John Wick star will headline the San Diego Comic-Con panel in Hall H dubbed "Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR: The Immortal Saga Continues." The panel is scheduled for Friday, July 22, from 3:00 to 4:00 PT. Alongside Reeves will be BRZRKR co-writer/co-creator Matt Kindt, the upcoming movie adaptation's screenwriter Mattson Tomlin, BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon, BOOM! Studios Executive Editor Eric Harburn, and BOOM! Studios President of Development Stephen Christy.
BRZRKR is a 12-issue comic book series about an immortal warrior and his battles through the ages. It was announced last year that the comic would also be getting developed as a live-action feature film in the works at Netflix with Reeves in the lead role, and the movie will be R-rated. An anime series based on the comics is also in the works. You can read the official description for the series below.
"BRZRKR is 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."
Two Adaptations of BRZRKR Are Coming to Netflix
"We're working with Netflix who have been very cool," Reeves said of the upcoming movie and anime series based on BRZRKR, per Collider. "They're going to let us do an R-rated story which is cool. My ambition or hope is not to do a filmed version of the comic book so that they'll have things in common, definitely the main character and his kind of rule set, but that we can take it to other places as well."
Of the anime series, he added, "We're talking to a couple of different animation companies and trying to figure that out. And, again, for me I'm hoping to be inspired and influenced...there are some rules to the story, but I also want other creators to do their version of it. So I'm hoping to do a different version of a metaverse where in the sense having different storytellers with one set of rules but go other places with it. We're working on trying to set up a company with the animation and we've hired a writer for the film Mattson Tomlin. He's been cool and just starting to put things together. That's where we're at."
There haven't been many updates since on the progress of the movie and the anime, but with BRZRKR getting its own panel at SDCC, chances are there will be some significant news about these projects that Reeves will be sharing with all of the fans.