Keanu Reeves admits he 'didn't write any' of his new novel and reveals he cried with joy after reading the first draft by China Mieville

Keanu Reeves has admitted that he 'didn't constitute any' of his caller fresh arsenic he recalled 'crying' aft reference it for nan first time. 

The actor, 59, teamed up pinch British 'weird fiction' writer China Miéville for The Book of Elsewhere, which is inspired by his ain BRZRKR comic series. 

Explaining why he chose to fto his collaborator constitute nan story, Keanu revealed he sewage affectional erstwhile his favourite writer handed him a copy. 

Speaking successful an question and reply with The Guardian newspaper, he said: 'I didn’t want to constitute nan book. I wanted different creator to return that journey. So, ultimately, China has written nan novel. I didn’t constitute immoderate of nan novel.'

The book which was released connected July 23, tells nan communicative of an immortal warrior who spends millennia trying to understand his ain immortality.

The brace first met face-to-face successful Berlin in 2021, and went done China's first draught successful a bid of Zoom meetings, pinch nan writer admitting it took him immoderate clip to grasp Keanu's ideas.

But yet Keanu was very happy pinch nan extremity result. 

He exclaimed: 'I was like, "I’m reference a 'BRZRKR' China Miéville novel! Yeah! What, what, what? And past like, why americium I crying? Why americium I emotion truthful much?"

"'And past what is that? And then? Wait, I request to for illustration … what’s that f******word? Oh, yeah. Great."' 

Keanu's comic was first published successful 2021 pinch writer Matt Kindt and creator Ron Garney. 

China's penning style has been described arsenic 'new weird fiction' pinch his novels spanning respective genres, ranging from American occidental to detective noir. 

His 'weird fiction' style ties successful good pinch nan actor's comic books - which centres astir Berzerker, an immortal hybrid of God and man who has a beardown inclination toward violence, impacting his sanity. 

The characteristic yet winds up successful nan employment of nan U.S. authorities to find retired nan truth astir his life. BRZRKR is set to beryllium made into a Netflix live-action series.

In 2021, it was announced that Netflix would create a live-action movie based connected nan comic book, which Keanu is attached to prima in.

Keanu has antecedently described his comic book bid BRZRKR arsenic 'an introspection of' violence, which explores really unit is used and controlled. 

'We are looking astatine unit successful nan impulse of unit and really it's used, and really it tries to beryllium controlled,' Reeves told People in 2021. 'And trying to understand nan characteristic that we mightiness not beryllium capable to subordinate to it, being immortal, but we subordinate to nan thought of wanting to beryllium immortal.' 

The A-list character told nan outlet that group 'can subordinate to nan thought of nan imagination of' immortality, which fuels nan story-line of BRZRKR. 

'We person vampiric stories that speak astir that,' he said. 'But that's portion of nan quality condition, whether it's nan surviving information of our mortality aliases quality wish-fulfilment that we don't person mortality.

'In nan discourse of violence, which is everywhere, it's survival, it's conquest, it's eating. So it plays everywhere, and we're trying to look astatine it from different ... It's an introspection of it.'

Kindt said that he, Reeves and Kindt worked connected nan task for 'at slightest 2 years,' overmuch of it remotely amid nan coronavirus pandemic. 

Keanu won complete nan internet's hearts again past twelvemonth erstwhile an adorable video of nan character meeting a nine-year-old ace instrumentality astatine a comic book store surfaced. 

YouTuber Noah of Noah's Amazing Reviews sewage nan chance to meet his favourite character during a signing of BRZRKR successful March 2023 astatine Golden Apple Comics successful Los Angeles.

The youngster was complete nan satellite gathering nan character - who delighted him pinch a little belief of his characteristic from Toy Story 4.