Hall H is definitely the place to be at San Diego Comic-Con. It's the room where all the biggest movie and TV news happens every year. It's been a long time since a comic book publisher has managed to nab a slot in this exclusive venue, but leave it to Keanu Reeves to finally break that trend.
IGN can exclusively reveal that Reeves will be attending Comic-Con and taking part in a panel devoted to his comic book series BRZRKR. Dubbed "Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR: The Immortal Saga Continues," the panel will focus on the upcoming finale of the BOOM! Studios series and the future of the franchise as Netflix continues to develop a live-action film adaptation and anime series. Based on that title, we also wouldn't be surprised if a sequel to the comic is revealed during the panel.
The panel will be held on Friday, July 22 from 3:00-4:00pm PT. Joining Reeves will be co-writer/co-creator Matt Kindt, the movie's screenwriter Mattson Tomlin, Matt Gagnon (Editor-in-Chief, BOOM! Studios), Eric Harburn (Executive Editor, BOOM! Studios), and Stephen Christy (President, Development, BOOM! Studios).
Written by Reeves and Kindt and drawn by Ron Garney, BRZRKR chronicles the bloody life of B, an immortal demigod who's spent 80,000 years honing his skills as a killer. In the modern era, B works as an agent of the US government, hoping to finally uncover a way of ending his unnaturally long life.
“I felt that by setting up that he was born 80,000 years ago, there is this perspective there,” Reeves told IGN in a 2021 interview. “There's a lot of places that we can go from there, and opportunities that we can go to. Which is fantastic. The first four issues were an origin story and of the modern day, the way the scientists and government are studying him. Now that we've done that we can go to chapter two and kind of push that forward.”
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