Keanu Reeves on his role in the hotly anticipated game 'Cyberpunk 2077'

In 'Cyberpunk 2077', Keanu Reeves plays an ageing rocker, Johnny Silverhand. Photo: Handout

The last time the video game industry gathered for a major event in Los Angeles, at 2019’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, fans were eager for glimpses of games that would show how the current generation would come to a close and what was ahead for the next one.

But despite new consoles from Sony and Microsoft looming as well as glimpses of assorted big name franchises, the talk of the show was one man: Keanu Reeves.