Dave Bautista Is Making a New Franchise Called Cat Assassin With the Writer of Stray — and There's Even a Video Game in the Works Inspired by Assassin's Creed

Dave Bautista and his accumulation institution Dogbone Entertainment are acceptable to make Steve Lerner’s caller communicative Cat Assassin for a caller franchise that volition see animated series, video games, and steps into the publishing space.

Lerner is the writer down the beloved Annapurna Interactive crippled Stray. Bautista, who has enjoyed tremendous post-WWE occurrence with the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy, Dune, and Blade Runner 2049, volition person originative input connected the franchise, which volition beryllium developed alongside Titan1Studios.

Dave Bautista is moving connected the Cat Assassin franchise.

Here's the authoritative blurb connected Cat Assassin:

Set successful a gritty neo-noir satellite inhabited by anthropomorphized cats of each types, Cat Assassin centers connected Hugh, a highly skilled assassin caught betwixt assorted cartels and powerfulness brokers successful a acheronian and twisted city. The franchise promises a unsocial blend of humor, action, and stealth.

“It’s been a pleasance collaborating with Titan1Studios connected Cat Assassin,” Bautista said successful a statement. “Their quality to physique worlds done animation has been truthful awesome and they’ve created a genuinely unsocial satellite successful this crippled that I can’t hold to stock with players.”

Titan1Studios is presently moving connected a stealth enactment crippled for the franchise, said to beryllium inspired by “the immersive gameplay of Assassin’s Creed, the tactical espionage of Splinter Cell, the immersive feline agility of Stray, and the fluid combat of Sifu” and “set the code for the expansive beingness that volition soon follow.”

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.