Dave Bautista’s Subsequent Franchise Play? Changing into a ‘Cat Murderer’

After hanging up his daggers as Drax the Destroyer and getting got as Glossu Rabban in Dune: Half Two, Dave Bautista is entering into video video games and animation with a brand new franchise by the title of Cat Murderer.

The wrestler-actor and his manufacturing firm Dogbone Leisure will carry to life a brand new thought from Steve Lerner, who wrote 2022’s feline journey recreation Stray. This is able to-be franchise will comprise a stealth-action online game—influenced by titles corresponding to Murderer’s Creed, Splinter Cell, and Sifu—from developer Titan1Studios (Love is a Roguelike, The Occasions at Unity Farm) and a “neo-noir grownup animated collection.”

Cat Murderer focuses on Hugh, an knowledgeable killer “caught between varied cartels and energy brokers in a darkish and twisted metropolis.” Bautista’s a part of the enterprise’s “artistic imaginative and prescient,” however in the intervening time, it’s unclear if that additionally means he’ll lend his voice to Hugh in both animated or online game kind. (His present voice work consists of the upcoming Military of the Lifeless animated collection and enjoying himself in WWE video games since 2003.)

Titan1 has a number of TV and recreation initiatives within the works, so in the intervening time, there’s no actual window on when to count on Cat Murderer. Nonetheless, in a press release on Titan1’s website Bautista known as teaming with the corporate “a pleasure … Their potential to construct worlds via animation has been so spectacular and so they’ve created a really distinctive world on this recreation that I can’t wait to share with gamers.”

Whereas the sport is seemingly anticipated for launch in October 2027 for PC and several other consoles, together with the Nintendo Change 2, Titan1 mentioned extra particulars on the general franchise’s future is predicted “within the coming months.”

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