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 deliver to life a brand new concept from Steve Lerner, who wrote 2022’s feline journey recreation Stray. This may-be franchise will comprise a stealth-action online game—influenced by titles equivalent 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 sequence.”

Cat Murderer focuses on Hugh, an professional killer “caught between numerous 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 meanwhile, 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 sequence and enjoying himself in WWE video games since 2003.)

Titan1 has a number of TV and recreation initiatives within the works, so in the meanwhile, there’s no actual window on when to anticipate Cat Murderer. Nonetheless, in an announcement on Titan1’s website Bautista referred to as teaming with the corporate “a pleasure … Their capability to construct worlds by way of 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 Swap 2, Titan1 mentioned extra particulars on the general franchise’s future is predicted “within the coming months.”

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