Dave Bautista’s Subsequent Franchise Play? Turning 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 thought 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 knowledgeable killer “caught between numerous cartels and energy brokers in a darkish and twisted metropolis.” Bautista’s a part of the enterprise’s “inventive 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 type. (His present voice work contains 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 known as teaming with the corporate “a pleasure … Their capacity to construct worlds by means of animation has been so spectacular and so they’ve created a very 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 a number of other consoles, together with the Nintendo Swap 2, Titan1 stated extra particulars on the general franchise’s future is predicted “within the coming months.”

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