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 moving into video video games and animation with a brand new franchise by the identify 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 is able to-be franchise will comprise a stealth-action online game—influenced by titles reminiscent of 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 “inventive imaginative and prescient,” however for the time being, 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 taking part in himself in WWE video games since 2003.)

Titan1 has a number of TV and recreation tasks within the works, so for the time being, there’s no actual window on when to anticipate Cat Murderer. Nonetheless, in a press release 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 they usually’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 anticipated “within the coming months.”

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