Neuromancer being made by a MegaCorp is somewhat ironic
We don’t talk about Fight Club…
Predestination, an Australian movie based on Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies…”
One of the things I like about this movie is that it’s set in Heinlein’s “futuristic” version of the 1970’s, not the 1970’s we got.
If they do Neuromancer right, it’ll have pocket sized VCR machines and the televsion screens will be grwy, not blue.
Hope so! Shadowrun, which is basically Gibson’s sprawl plus magic, set in the 2050s in original editions from around 1990 -
Later editions added wireless computer connections to keep up with present technology, but wifi just doesn’t feel cyberpunk, so they later added some weird lore reason to go back to needing to plug in, for recent editions. Good change.
Read [or reread] “Damnation Alley” by Roger Zelazny. You could argue that it’s the original ‘punk’ science fiction novel. A hard bitten Hell’s Angel is chosen to drive across the post-atomic wasteland to deliver a life giving serum to the last city on the East Coast.
When I think about it, I decide that the Atomic War took place circa 1970 and keep all the background details in that era.
I have high hopes. Everything I’ve watched on Apple had been terrific.
Foundation, For All Mankind is an excellent alternate history, Constellation is starting out strong, Severance is one of my favorite psychological thriller, Monarch was a pretty good Godzilla show, Silo was fucking excellent Fallout esqe show, and the first season of Ted Lasso was pretty good.
I think Apple has produced some of my favorite series, but there have been stinkers. Foundation was a snoozefest and See wasted some good world-building on a meh storyline and cringe characters. I didn’t last two episodes of Shrinking.
Very interested in how much money they’re willing to throw at this. The broad strokes plot of Neuromancer makes for a pretty compelling heist story, but it’s a heist that takes place in space, mostly from the perspective of cyberspace, and all of it reads like it would cost a lot of money to recreate. It’s also near certain that all of the subtext is going to get scrubbed out of the show, because Wintermute is the kinda dangerous AI that spooks people, and to my understanding Apple doesn’t like negative portrayals of AI.
It might have some pretty visuals, but it’s hard to trust Apple to make anything punk.
Remember Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves? The original short story takes place in the Neuromancer universe. I loved that movie.
I once spoke with William Gibson when he came to my city for a book club and told him about it. He said he really didn’t like the movie and it turned out into what he considered a joke. It really surprised me.
They spent a ton on ‘Foundation.’
I really hope it uses music from Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk album!
Fine.
I’ll settle for it.
Still, stiiiill mad that the planned TV series for Trent Reznor’s Year Zero universe never happened.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The streamer announced that it’s adapting William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer into a 10-episode series.
Graham Roland (Lost, Jack Ryan) will serve as showrunner, while JD Dillard (Utopia) will direct the first episode.
In a press release, Apple said that the show “will follow a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.”
Its been turned into a video game, a graphic novel, and is reportedly being made into a movie as well.
So far that has included series like Foundation, For All Mankind, Silo, Invasion, Monarch, and Constellation, which premiered earlier this month.
An adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries is also in the works, starring Alexander Skarsgård.
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