Justin Lin, best known for reviving the Fast & Furious franchise, has been tapped to direct the action feature BRZRKR, the Netflix adaptation of the Keanu Reeves-authored comic. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.
Reeves is starring and producing the film. Also producing are Stephen Christy for Boom! Studios, Stephen Hamel for Company Films and Ross Richie, as well as Lin via his Perfect Storm banner.
The Batman 2 co-writer Mattson Tomlin penned the script for BRZKRK, which 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.”
Reeves created the concept and the story, working alongside artist Ron Garney and comics author Matt Kindt.
The first issue remains one of the best-selling comics of the last decade, selling over 600,000 copies. The title itself has sold over 3.5 million worldwide. The 2024 BRZRKR novel, titled The Book of Elsewhere, written by China Miéville and Reeves, became a New York Times best-seller. There is also an anime spinoff in development to be written by Tomlin.
