Keanu Reeves’s BRZRKR will be a limited 12-issue series
Keanu Reeves is sharing how writing his first comic book came to be.
He says while on a Zoom call with the folks at the Boom! Studios publishing company, the idea came to them.
They went ‘Comic book.’ I went: ‘Yeah! Why not? That sounds amazing!'”
From Washington Post.com:
To dramatize this “Highlander”-meets-“Logan” fighter during the Boom! introductions, Reeves stood and acted out potential scenes, even flashing some fighting moves — pitch meeting as full-body immersion. The approach was similar to when Reeves first met with Pixar for “Toy Story 4,” striking action poses to play Duke Caboom. “I’ll get in touch with a feeling or thought — or a feeling-thought,” says the bearded Reeves, wearing a black Levi’s jacket and starkly backdropped by a near-white wall — Zoom room as Zen room. “I’ll express it and it tends to come out through the filter of the character.”
“BRZRKR” opens with maximum carnage and minimal verbiage. The creative team promises more textured themes are on the horizon. Discussing the comic’s scope, Reeves riffs until he’s in full mellifluous monologue: “We do want to take on morality, ethics, peacetime, war, violence, whose side, what’s right, what’s wrong, truth, fiction, memory, what do we believe in, who are we, with not only violence but also love — and then our own identities and who we are as humans.” Whoa.
The comic, centering on a assassin with supernatural ability, easily creates comparisons to Reeves’s Neo in the “Matrix” movies and John Wick. Reeves has published art books in the past, but this will be his first try as a comic book author. This project launched a Kickstarter to back the books with the studio hoping to sell $400,000 in preorders; instead, it was $1.5 million.
“BRZRKR,” a new comic written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt, with visuals by artist Ron Garney, letterer Clem Robins and colorist Bill Crabtree with Boom! Studios.
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Susan Saunders 3/4/21
