Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is no stranger to a stacked voice cast; the first season of the Netflix show (which is a standalone tie-in to CD Projekt Red’s video game Cyberpunk 2077, which is in turn based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game) included Matthew Mercer and Giancarlo Esposito. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 looks to be carrying on that tradition with the announcement of its English voice cast, which includes Rawhide himself, Clancy Brown.
Brown will play Weak Kingsley, whom the Edgerunners X account describes as “once a veteran edgerunner at the top of his game who now lives in the shadow of his own former glory.” Brown is a veteran character and voice actor who, despite voicing the decidedly unintimidating Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants for the past 27 years, is more well-known for bringing the menace in roles like the Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4. He’s all but guaranteed to be a stand-out as Weak Kingsley.
In addition to Brown, Nazeeh Tarsha (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End) will voice D, a “Snake Nation netrunner hunting the killer who wiped out his clan”; Kimoy Lee (Rooster Fighter) will voice Talia, a Corpo who is “fiercely independent and embraces the hyper-violent, chrome-obsessed culture of the Maelstrom gang”; and Valeria Rodriguez (Stranger Things: Tales From ’85) will voice Roman Carax, “a young cinephile.”
And don’t expect any of the few surviving characters from the first season to make an appearance. The show’s official logline explains:
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge. In a city that thrives in the spotlight of violence, one question remains: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?
While the new series’ first teaser trailer was light on plot details, it did confirm that the first season’s signature violence will remain firmly intact. We’ll see who survives this time around when Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 premieres later this year.
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