So, who should have played Johnny Silverhand instead of Reeves?

[gungadin22000]

Johnny Silverhand is the most awesome man in the galaxy. Super sexy, charismatic rock star genius-slash-mercenary anarchist with a cool robot arm who slays Wilt Chamberlain quantities of poon.

And the person they got to portray him is Keanu Reeves, a man with the sexual charisma of a wooden plank with a mean face on it (thanks Maddox).

Now, Reeves seems to be a very nice man and has had a well-deserved career resurgence as an action leading man due to the John Wick films, but that role required him to be brooding, dark and handsome, which he can pull of just fine.

But Keanu Reeves just cannot do rockstar anarchist sex god. It just doesn't work, and since Johnny's character is so central to the plot of CP77, it really detracts from the storyline as a whole.

So, the question is: which actor SHOULD have been cast as Johnny instead?

For my money, I feel that Henry Rollins woulda been a good fit. Handsome, tough-looking, genuine punk-rock credentials and clearly had a hell of a lot of fun portraying a bomb-throwing anarchist in Batman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxsV9oQ-50A

[Soul]

Messaggio originale di gungadin22000:

Messaggio originale di Soul:

jack black...

I mean I could see him fit into the passion of a rock star and wanna bring the system down type of mentality...

Damn....I absolutely hate to admit it, but Jack Black could absolutely pull this one off, and I detest Jack Black.

He was great in Brütal Legend and has rock music chops.

Willem Dafoe is also not a bad suggestion, great at manic energy.

I know Jack Black has had roles before back in the day as villians when he pretty much started acting.... and when he plays his roles he can be quite passionate with them.... I could totally see him pulling off the whole evil thing when first meeting after prologue.... he's got the whole spectrum of emotions he works with....

keanu reeves though?.... he's pretty much always a nice guy... and movies he plays are always kinda just one side of him.... the good side... he doesnt even sing in this game himself... even though he's in a "band" and thats one of his biggest background details...

I mean think they just picked Keanu for the "sex appeal" aspect..... but someone like Jack Black would check off way more boxes of Jonny's character I think.... he just has more of his "personality" I think... not to mention the singing background.... I mean look at how he did Bowser with his peach song becoming a hit.... like dude wrote and sung a song about "Peaches" and it hit the billboard charts....

[Blackheart]

Messaggio originale di Ishan451:

Like when you meet Jessy Cox in a side mission. Like.. yeah, i guess its a nice easter egg, but it really takes me out of the game.

As long as they do a good job voice acting, I don't see an issue. I don't get this "no actors in my game" attitude a lot of people seem to have. There are a lot of cases where actors did great job voicing their characters (Mass effect series had many celebrities and is one of the absolute best rpgs out there, Reedus in Death Stranding, Matthew Perry in F:NV, GTA series had quite a few over the series, Saints Row had a few, pretty sure Assassin creed games had few etc... That's just for real actors, if you want to count other celebs like Jesse cox (youtubers and such), then list is even bigger. Thing is, most people don't even realize some of the characters they love are voiced by celebrities, but once they find out, it's suddenly a deal breaker?

[Kharn the Betrayer]

Weird Al Yankovic

[Revy]

I also say David Bowie. But since that was never possible and never will be it had to be Keanu. I can't imagine anyone else.

[Loco]

Messaggio originale di Revy:

I also say David Bowie. But since that was never possible and never will be it had to be Keanu. I can't imagine anyone else.

Wasn't Bowie the one of the inspirations for Silverhand?

[gungadin22000]

Seems likely: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Johnny_Silverhand?file=JohnnySilverhand+Infobox+CP2013.png

[Shin Hati]

Jake Gyllenhaal. There was 100% where his infamous screaming and yelling would have enhanced a scene. Brad Pitt could also have been a solid pick, no matter what you think of him, in the quieter moments of the game, his voice is perfect for it.

No issue with Keanu though. We'll see if in the sequel/s they'll keep up this "must have a celebrity voicing a major character" thing they got going on here.

[gungadin22000]

Hopefully not. Launch of this game was a disaster, it would have been a lot better if they just got good, generic voice actors to do everybody in the game and saved money they could have used to fix it.

Witcher 3 had no known actors that I can think of and the English version had an incredibly strong voice cast. Keep film actors on the silver screen.

[carnie2]

Megan Follows

[Ngoc]

Bowie would be perfect Keanu is a succesfull sci-fi actor so we are use to see him in futuristic (even if silverhand is actually past) role and it's easy to accept him.
It would have been nice to see a Heath Ledger (joker type performance) for Silverhand with AI i guess we could have both Bowie or Heath perform it.

[Illuminary]

Messaggio originale di gungadin22000:

Johnny Silverhand is the most awesome man in the galaxy. Super sexy, charismatic rock star genius-slash-mercenary anarchist with a cool robot arm who slays Wilt Chamberlain quantities of poon.

And the person they got to portray him is Keanu Reeves, a man with the sexual charisma of a wooden plank with a mean face on it (thanks Maddox).

Now, Reeves seems to be a very nice man and has had a well-deserved career resurgence as an action leading man due to the John Wick films, but that role required him to be brooding, dark and handsome, which he can pull of just fine.

But Keanu Reeves just cannot do rockstar anarchist sex god. It just doesn't work, and since Johnny's character is so central to the plot of CP77, it really detracts from the storyline as a whole.

So, the question is: which actor SHOULD have been cast as Johnny instead?

For my money, I feel that Henry Rollins woulda been a good fit. Handsome, tough-looking, genuine punk-rock credentials and clearly had a hell of a lot of fun portraying a bomb-throwing anarchist in Batman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxsV9oQ-50A

Considering Keanu excels in robotic characters he fits Silverhand well. 11/10 times they should pick Keanu to do it all over again.