Cyberpunk 2077 as an 80's Dark (Blade Runner like) Sci-Fi Film

#cyberpunk2077 #cdprojektred #darkfantasy
0:00 - Night City
0:05 - Jackie Welles
0:10 - Panam Palmer
0:15 - Adam Smasher
0:20 - Downtown
0:25 - Viktor Vector
0:30 - Judy Alvarez
0:35 - Jig-Jig Street
0:40 - Goro Takemura
0:45 - Evelyn Parker
0:50 - Lizzie's Bar
0:55 - Dexter DeShawn
1:00 - Delamain
1:05 - Wakako Okada
1:10 - River Ward
1:15 - Dum Dum
1:20 - Johnny Silverhand
1:25 - Rogue Amendiares
1:30 - Saburo Arasaka
1:35 - V
Music:
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[@Delta547]

This is probably closest we get to how Mike Pondsmith actually invisioned his world in his head back in the days.

[@MrCIA-me3ef]

Why are you me? There can only be one Central Intelligence Agency.

[@mijeltv]

CIA?

[@Delta547]

@@MrCIA-me3ef What are you talking about? I am CIA. I am the man with the Flight Plan.

[@BuzzingGoober]

@@MrCIA-me3ef youre a big guy

[@BigBoy-ok3eg]

Dr pavel?

[@hervymarquezgarcia1079]

Johnny Silverhand is what cements this as plausible. We *know* what a young Keanu in a cyberpunk movie looks like

[@totalrko]

He looks more like the concept art and official art from the tabletop games.

[@wesesheskhnemtuhit]

A whopping 80gb of memory in those augs.

[@totalrko]

@@wesesheskhnemtuhit That's nova as hell choom

[@cloudboysmusic5223]

Reminds me of a young Trent Renzor in this photo

[@ProcyonDei]

In the original Tabletop artwork, Johnny Silverhand looked more like Billy Idol with a prosthetic arm...

[@ratmdex]

If Cyberpunk 2077 was a point and click adventure, this is what the portraits would look like for the NPC's you interact with.

[@logan317b]

It's scary how much I'd pay to watch a whole movie or series that looks like this

[@TheJared38]

Give it a couple more decades and these things will be able to produce entire films, so you could get your wish!

[@zCr3ative]

bladerunner, if you haven't watched it already that is

[@logan317b]

@@zCr3ative Oh I have it's a masterpiece. I guess this looks like if they made a sequel earlier on and they had an unlimited budget.

[@TurbaGames]

@@logan317b The sequel movie is pretty good too. I've heard they planning on shooting a series as well. Watch Altered Carbon if you're looking something decent on a cyberpunk universe.

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

@@TheJared38 more Lik real life

[@lif6737]

Okay, I know these have kind of become memes, but this one is actually cool af

[@DEVU_AI]

thx

[@lecafarddelinternet]

Memes can be cool sometimes so that does not surprise me too much

[@californiansniper2133]

I don’t think you know what meme means

[@Sean_Connery]

@@californiansniper2133lol

[@prankkster]

Seriously though, why am i suddenly seeing a swarm of these videos - "something as an 80's movie" ?

[@SewingMink160]

Johnny Silverhand is just a younger clean shaven Keanu.

[@princesilenceteddy3114]

Aka young Keanu during Point Break and The Matrix.

[@jaredflynn3750]

johnny mnemonic keanu if he got buff

[@sheabuttercream]

Actually Johnny Silverhand looks like a mashup of Keanu and Dylan McDermott

[@Leptospirosi]

I really wish they had Billy Idol Cast instead of Keanu. He deserves the spot as the iconic Cyberpunk Rockerboy!

[@TheNocturnal1]

To me it’s like a Troy Baker

[@bixbyte_]

God I love Retro Futurism so much. Thank you for this video.

[@DEVU_AI]

you're welcome

[@yeenbeans7645]

I really miss this type of movie. I grew up on my grandparents old VHS tape movies from 1970s-1990s movies and the early fantasy/dark aura the trashy cameras and dim sets had holds a special place in my heart

[@OGbrundle]

The best eras for fantasy and sci-fi

[@skeletonking2501]

Surprisingly fits well

[@user-eb4wl5jm8w]

Because cyberpunk was like it from the beginning

[@edit9246]

@@user-eb4wl5jm8w It's so eighties the neon shifted from Japanese to Russian lmao

[@bezimienny5788]

because mike pondsmith wrote Cyberpunk 2020 in the 80s, most of his concept art for the characters isn't that far off from this video

[@gx4012]

I come back to this every week because it just makes me feel some type of way, the music, the atmosphere, literally it’s perfect 😌

[@RealBigMan91]

Me too.

[@irv1106]

For those wondering about the song, it’s called Mars Adventure by Brendon Moeller.

[@SewingMink160]

Damn it now i want a movie. It's funny that cyberpunk is already 80s style so this video just makes the game look like a movie.

[@SewingMink160]

@@Contra_Mundum I know I've watched it but I meant a movie in Cyberpunks universe specifically about v and Johnny or a new character all togehter. Cyberpunk 2077 is a bit of an amalgamation of all the other Cyberpunk stories, movies, series, etc. Because of that we've gotten the plot of the genre itself as a game.

[@SewingMink160]

@@Contra_Mundum I am a dumbass who skips lines when reading.

[@ggoose11224]

I hope the next cyberpunk game is set in the 2020s during the 4th corporate war, so we get more of a look at Pondsmith's original world and the retro-futurism we get a glimpse of in the Silverhand flashbacks.

[@PatrickChilton]

Akira is great too.

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

don't worry the AI will make this come true soon too... and it can also make different versions with different endings with different music each time so you can watch it again and again

[@Jonkler_Boner]

the one time the AI's weird obsession with putting random metal things on people's faces works in it's advantage

[@trance_af6632]

No need to worry, the AI is just getting you more comfortable with the upcoming augmentations - no need to think about it too much.

[@RoseSupreme]

This amazingly captures the look of an 80s cyberpunk movie. With the more obvious costume pieces and Adam Smasher looking like he's wearing a plastic robot costume rather than actually looking like a full-on cyborg.

[@danielat544]

Just by watching a couple images, our minds are already envisioning a storyline or a context based on the aesthetics.This is amazing dude.

[@munanchoinc]

The best part is that all of these designs look extremely accurate to the game.

[@bezimienny5788]

dude- why would they need to be accurate to the game? this is clearly a homage to the fact that Cyberpunk started off as a tabletop RPG in the 80s

[@katze9834]

@@bezimienny5788 my brother in Christ the timestamps are the names of the characters from 2077

[@Rogue_Nine416]

except for panam, who's actually native american not black

[@user-lv8dn8gw9z]

@@Rogue_Nine416 ye that's probably the weakest one tbh Rogues is pretty good but I'm kinda eh on it

[@basilgaizka4672]

idk about that one chief

[@therasslintheatre2960]

This is 100% in line with what the original Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG rulebooks described back in the day, and I love it

[@ggoose11224]

I hope the next cyberpunk game is set in the 2020s during the 4th corporate war, so we get more of a look at Pondsmith's original world and the retro-futurism we get a glimpse of in the Silverhand flashbacks.

[@JaydonVRC]

@@ggoose11224 If they ever do that multiplayer title, this is where it would be best set.

[@ARL2D2]

@@ggoose11224 I can just taste those noir raytraced puddles

[@thefatbob3710]

@@ggoose11224 Kinda wanna get a game set in the era of red

[@ggoose11224]

@@thefatbob3710 yes! the problem is I feel like the aesthetics of stuff earlier in the cyberpunk timeline may be a bit more niche, as it's much more rockeryboy and grungey than the games setting of 77. it'd probably have to be scaled down in comparison to 77. I'm imagining a 15-20 hour semi-linear story game such as Fallen Order with the different playstyles of cyberpunk 77, but more retro-techy and refined due to the linear nature.

[@SomeConspiracy]

imagine a director with the vision and mission of creating this today with the style of the 1980s maintained. what a dream.

[@willh7352]

This is EXACTLY how I envisioned all things Cyberpunk. This dark, and this gritty. Fuck yeah.

[@ZrodyApo]

Viktor Vektor is the most accurate from the game I bet someone in the future will manage to make this as a mod somehow 😃

[@Drezdenez]

Saburo looks good

[@moshymosh]

Rogue got me hot m horny

[@acceptablecasualty5319]

I think Judy is basically the same

[@ZrodyApo]

@@acceptablecasualty5319 she looks a little too old imo, as well as a drug addict 😅

[@asiblingproduction]

That’s a wicked accurate Johnny looks exactly like keanu

[@danielawesome36]

1:20 Ah yes, Johnny Silverhand played by Alan Rickman. His performance was amazing, Oscar didn't deserve him. May he rest in peace.

[@FlymanMS]

Was very surprising to see him as Hans Gruber just few years after.

[@napoleonbonaparte525]

I get Gary Oldman vibe.

[@xlrouge]

😂

[@k1775]

Keanu without his beard does look like Alan Rickman

[@fromaggio7654]

I think Trent Reznor

[@kuirkiz]

This is really hitting a spot for me for wanting to watch some 80s movies rn

[@devaneyjohn5349]

I can imagine this becoming a texture pack mod for the game to be honest.

[@Excentrion]

How?

[@GunGun-cf3ss]

You mean a complete overhaul with hundreds of new assets?

[@JaydonVRC]

@@GunGun-cf3ss or just general character overhauls for main characters like the ones we already have...?

[@harrybalanovsky2169]

If that will ever happen, it will be no less than on Unreal Engine 5.

[@Excentrion]

I ask because this is such a misguided take. Textures only get you so far if you don't replace models. The look of the engine used in the form of shaders also plays a huge role. A "texture pack" will never be able to recreate the images shown here. A mod maybe will, but that still requires a complete overhaul in the form of textures/assets etc.

[@xx-doomripper-xx3249]

1:20 breathtaking

[@austinthorning5025]

You're breathtaking!

[@erogaki]

This is almost how I imagined cyberpunk would be before the game had launched and prior to a lot of the teaser trailers, we need a game like this

[@gameon2000]

1:20 - I love that Johnny Silverhand played by... Bradley Cooper, styled as Ralph Fiennes in "Strange Days"

[@moshymosh]

I passed out from busting multiple times in my pants when Rogue showed up on screen.

[@imstupidbut]

me too

[@sirgb7]

Frighteningly perfect. Makes you feel nostalgia for something that has never existed.

[@denji5604]

You pick the right music to go with this picture like mann I want this movie now

[@neonsolace2748]

Dude this would've been a huge blockbuster if it really happened

[@user-ol7bt4wp1j]

We need to bring the 80’s aesthetics and camera quality/cinematography back for dark themed movies.

[@ijustbevibin0425]

Not only dark themed movies but all movies that vibe you’re talking about is why I love 80s movies and music so much

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

good one. the industry is dead. pains me to no end, after working in it for 35+ years

[@elektra81516]

Rouge's tatts look incredible, I actually prefer her style in this compared to the vanilla game!

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

Same with Adam Smasher.

[@RialuCaos]

Rogue is the only one I'd take over the in-game version.

[@edge9380]

she looks like harley quinn

[@beachesandhose2374]

What other version than the "vanilla" game is there?

[@davidanderson5259]

This would work... Somebody should make this exact movie...the complete '80s aesthetic.

[@bot0643]

Gotta say, you picked a awesome piece of music for this.

[@GlazednConfused]

So many of these character designs just go so HARD

[@kpdelaney6460]

I love the landscape shots here! So atmospheric with the giant towers and damp streets

[@T-h-a-t_G-u-y]

Those are the best parts

[@sonic064]

This is how I imagine CP:2020 when I played it back in the day

[@bigbossiswatchingyou4624]

Viktor, Judy, Johnny, Panam, Saburo and Jackie all look amazing here

[@Andruthless]

Is it weird I almost like this aesthetic more than the actual game? It's so surreal and other worldly which is the exact thing I love about cyberpunk visuals to begin with. The atmosphere is so good in these

[@sergsergesrgergseg]

this aesthetic actually fits the name of cyberpunk

[@2603Davi]

I miss this dark dirty aesthetic that the game doesnt have

[@ct5766]

Cyberpunk game is too colorful and clean.

[@swans184]

Me too! The obvious artificiality of this fits the world much better than the attempted photorealism of the game.

[@mrb2349]

Exactly, it was supposed to be more 80s and more brooding.

[@whalewaffle2771]

The aesthetic and character designs are just amazing

[@Zaqariyah]

Young Michelle Pfeiffer looks too charming as Rogue and Evelyn😍

[@123Windigo]

This just made me wonder if anyone has ever made a universe set in the future that is how someone in the FUTURE will envision the further future. Like, imagining what someone in 2040 imagines 2080 to be like. Trippy

[@highwayvigilante]

Adam is somehow even more freaky looking 😂 Great vid

[@Lucid_dream6]

Keeping doing more of this cyberpunk content it’s ur most viewed

[@hotfightinghistory9224]

Judy Alvarez is even more beautiful in the flesh than I could have ever imagined....

[@matteofazio7845]

These pictures are probably one of the greatest thing I've ever seen

[@basskrustie]

That looks like a movie I could watch over and over again!

[@AndyRoidEU]

Guys I cannot take it. The future will be absolutely different than anything we ever imagined.

[@JoMcD21]

It's amazing how they're all instantly recognizable.

[@markdachner3779]

Nice music selection. Beautiful pictures. I can sink wonderfully into my thoughts👍

[@TheMetalfreak360]

Johnny looks kinda like if you mixed young Keanu and Matt Mercer.

[@jzmmm]

With a bit of trent reznor

[@Morlok616]

Makes me nostalgic for a flick that never existed. The Alan Rickman lookalike as Johnny works surprisingly well. Edit: The Michelle Pfeiffer lookalike as Rogue nails it, too.

[@VicTor-vj4hm]

"Makes me nostalgic for a flick that never existed." THAT THE EXACT FEELING THAT I'M HAVING RIGHT NOW! I would love to known what's the name of this style, i have searched on the internet for awnsers but none were satisfactory enough! i've seen: VHS retro style, 80s camera filter, soap opera effect but NONE have gave me the same feeling...

[@Morlok616]

@@VicTor-vj4hm I wouldn't know specifically but I think it's a combination of how realistic the "actors" look and feel, as well as the "sets". It's uncanny to say the least.

[@VicTor-vj4hm]

@@Morlok616 You are right, there is a bit of uncanny in it, remembers me of stop motion animation with extra photos, i wish that this had a name...

[@Morlok616]

@@VicTor-vj4hm There is a movie called "Mad God" that you might enjoy. I enjoyed it very much.

[@VicTor-vj4hm]

@@Morlok616 already in my watch list, thanks!!!

[@heavenly_haori1725]

When you think about it there wasn’t enough 80’s cyberpunk.

[@root0062]

Man doing a cyberpunk world with practical effects would be dream come true.

[@skinisdelicious3365]

You definitely captured that OG blade runner vibe. Very good job. Rogue caught me a bit off guard but everyone else id say you captured their essence perfectly

[@TerminatorZXY]

I kinda like how it's the 2020s sci-fi aesthetic tbh. Maybe in 40 years people will appreciate it like the 80s one.

[@419chris419]

Unlikely. 70's to 2000's were the golden age of western film. What we got now is just piggy backing off what the entertainment once was. No difference from 2D animation art back then compared to digital 2d animations we have now. Future folks will notice this generation of work but it won't be hailed as something good, just simply a stepping stone, nothing more.

[@XunlimiteD101]

@@twentytwo138 I don't know, like, that's just your opinion man

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

@@419chris419 heh, realistically will say same shit while peaking and chosing what is true iconic from generation of work.

[@taylorthormod]

God, it would be so unbelievably cool to have a cyberpunk game in this style. I’d do anything for a AAA open world blade runner game, so long as it nails the atmosphere and visuals

[@BreadCatMarcus]

Blade Runner is literally my favorite film. Seeing an adaptation like this would be a dream. Hell, give Villeneuve the license, he can come close.

[@mythicdawn9574]

Villeneuve's Bladerunner sequel was actually fantastic. I was worried it would end up being yet another "half-assed, money-hungry sequel to an old classic" but Villeneuve actually wants to make good movies, and he didn't shy away from long "boring" (some would say :p) sequences to establish the atmosphere, and he also managed to keep the original's feel while modernizing this world (since it happens way after first movie). I also really liked Villeneuve's Dune, this guy is certainly one of the few contemporary filmmaker that will be remembered as one of the greats of the 2010's - 2020's era, when everyone will have forgotten MCU commercial movies.

[@DarthStevenus]

I don't think his style would fit, honestly. His movies are very reserved and minimalist, CP2077 is loud and purposefully garish and in-your-face. I'm not sure who I would pick to direct it though.

[@Guythatyoudontknow]

could you do a version for edgerunners? would be cool to see the crew depicted realistically

[@ijustbevibin0425]

Garbage show

[@konigeurichderwestgoten4460]

Now THAT is the Cyberpunk I wanted.

[@mandu6665]

A totally soulless cliche?

[@konigeurichderwestgoten4460]

@@mandu6665 'Soulless' as in William Gibson's own words, "a GTA skinned over with a generic 80s retro future"? As a snowflake millennial who went to a Billy Idol concert (the dude who made an awesome album called 'Cyberpunk'), a couple years ago, while everyone else was just pumping their fist in the air, I stretched my arm and waved and Billy waved back, then the whole crowd went wild and started waving. And I was the only guy dressed in a leather jacket and a headband.

[@igmata]

Absolutely breathtaking....This was brilliant....I wish the game looked like this... But I know one day games will look like this....when that happens...i pray they remake the game in this image...just beautiful.. Beautiful

[@OldManPaxusYT]

Very cool. Blade Runner is still, to this day, my fav movie of all time.

[@russellblachere5492]

River looks like hes in his element

[@Dingle-God1987]

How has ai art got this good

[@vergildisparda]

Yeah its good. But you can still tell it was obviously an AI, the details are wonky or misshapen

[@Kobalt_Rax_the_one]

The big take away is the characters , they look pretty plastic like a bit .

[@419chris419]

@@vergildisparda Normal populous wouldn't care or notice

[@JesusChristF0rever]

@@vergildisparda just imagine how it would work in 5 years.

[@vergildisparda]

@@419chris419 But they do. Subconsciously you can tell something is wrong. It's like the uncanny valley effect.

[@d.dawg1]

For some reason I feel like that is exactly what V would look like if there was a Cyberpunk movie made in the 80’s. It’s a very cool design this entire video is crazy to me

[@ThisIsMyRodrick]

Hell Cool. As a huge Blade Runner fan, I got into Cyberpunk. This is great.

[@liquidgoose9730]

this was what i hoped for when i heard of Cyberpunk 2077.

[@DEVU_AI]

thx i'm glad you liked

[@user-ol7bt4wp1j]

I imagine it to look like a mix between Blade Runner and Red Heat

[@enerjastick]

Saburo looks actually sick af omg

[@markypirate3366]

Cyberpunk + Bladerunner = amazing results

[@WolfyFancyLads]

God, that looks good. Don't tell Hollywood or Nexflix though, they'll try copy it and ruin it. But damn do I wanna time travel just to give someone in the 80s that movie idea.

[@DEVU_AI]

haha thx

[@StewHeisenberg]

This looks like any futuristic fan’s wet dream, this must’ve actually happened in the 80s in a different timeline.

[@warweasel2832]

If Cyberpunk spawned a second wave of Tabletop RPG craze like D&D before it, we probably would've seen this be turned into a multi-film franchise back in the early nineties.

[@bigfootwithinternetconnect2330]

@@warweasel2832 the closest we got was Bladerunner I guess

[@elcucuy4080]

Hollywood needs to hire you❤ This is amazing work🏆

[@BladeDoomer86]

Goddamn, was sold after 30sec, amazing art. How i wish Cyberpunk would've adopted this type of design.

[@VELVETPERSON]

My god how i do love the 80's cyberpunk

[@roseyshades96]

They need to make into a mod that basically overhauls the entire game into a 80s era Nightcity so you can play the entire game as if its the movie like in the video. I can see this as some workshop content followed by some music mods maybe some new animations and quest and it would be perfect.

[@cptcool-__-7501]

fantastic, keep up the good work bro

[@dylives7667]

Just how Atari's Ghostbusters 2007 is the 3rd movie, Cyberpunk 2077 is actually the 3rd Blade Runner movie in interactive form.

[@ikejugend]

Michelle Pfeiffer and Alan Rickman as Silverhand? That’s amazing 😻

[@bigbossiswatchingyou4624]

Michelle Pfeiffer would be amazing as Rogue actually

[@armado9721]

There is a feeling that the atmosphere and aesthetics of the 80s makes the Cyberpunk genre seem to be more proper. There is something unique in this more deeper, dark, noir and mysterious,this is the kind of cyberpunk i like!🌆

[@DeepeyeLV]

The cityscapes!!! Rogue Amendiares!!! WOW!

[@souomura]

Bro... What a movie that would be.

[@Alex_FRD]

This is the best version of this AI art meme that I've seen.

[@user-lv8dn8gw9z]

Only one that didn't suit was jig jig Street

[@nichtwichtig24]

Nailed the 80s dystopian feel like a sledgehammer a 9 inch nail. Perfection

[@SPOOKIEMOOKe]

Magnetic, you make this seem so surreal

[@selohcin]

If this doesn't spark some creative writing, I don't know what will!

[@Ticbow]

Honestly, how I wished it could look. Always preferred the retro futurism of blade runner and similar movies

[@sn0wyc0sm0]

Personally if Cyberpunk gets a movie and includes Johnny, I’d rather another actor play him, Keanu was cool but 99% of the reason he’s there is to drive more sales bcuz everyone loves Keanu. Get someone that can actually do the role believably and not have another example of “Hey, we got Keanu, come see our product for that singular reason!”

[@cleverman383]

It was hard to take the character seriously because whenever I looked at him I just thought "oh its Keanu"

[@sameerdodger]

Keanu kinda sucks as an actor anyways. Great guy don't get me wrong, but meh. My opinion of course :)

[@grumpusthedog2053]

This is amazing. Really great vid. In a minute and a half you managed to capture more of the cyberpunk essence we wanted, than what we got in the actual game.

[@swashbucklemchrue2323]

The shots of the city look amazing

[@mmyr8ado.360]

0:12 That's not Panam, that's Maman Bridgette in her early days

[@Clint_Yeetwood]

I have been waiting for this one. Thank you.

[@cloudboysmusic5223]

Johnny Silverhand be looking like a young Trent Renzor in this photo

[@ladyann187]

That is actually amazing! Would totally watch it!

[@satanssister5340]

imagining another world, other planets is an amazing thing, I imagine these cities, it is amazing

[@213SEMPERFI]

Damn this looks amazing.

[@madcowkiller10]

Great , now do bladerunner as an 80s sci fi

[@user-ic3kt1eq1p]

LOL, Best comment.

[@odesamusic]

Best era for scifi, need games like this

[@denji5604]

Why does all the shot look so iconic and exquisite

[@Jinroh333]

well its really good, the atmosphere like i always thought back in cyberpunk 2077 first teaser trailer, but just need more neon colour