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Still waiting on a Neuromancer film or better yet, a mini-series.
by fivestar 9y ago
Still waiting on a Neuromancer film or better yet, a mini-series.
- elvinyung 9y agoIt's just going to look exactly like Blade Runner [1] :) [1] http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_01_01_archive.asp#90199532 http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_01_01_archive.as...
- Fricken 9y agoAn adaptation of Pattern Recognition is supposedly in the works. I've always been a big fan of Gibson penned Johnny Mnemonic, which, if you can get past the bad acting and wooden dialogue, has plenty of trademark Gibson cyberpunk tropes.
- elvinyung 9y agoActually, there is also a film adaptation of New Rose Hotel, which is in the same setting as Johnny Mnemonic and the Sprawl trilogy. [1] http://imdb.com/title/tt0133122/ http://imdb.com/title/tt0133122/
- angersock 9y agoYep! With Christopher Walken, no less--it's one of my favorite obscure gems of the cyberpunk film genre.
- phjesusthatguy3 9y agoThe BBC produced a radio drama a number of years ago. I don't have a good source for it now, though.
- Analemma_ 9y agoI feel like the window of opportunity for a Neuromancer film has closed... so many of the tropes that it invented have now become clichés that at this point the film would just feel stale. That's what happened with the Ghost in the Shell movie and Neuromancer would have it even worse.
- fao_ 9y agoNah, the original Ghost in the Shell movie still feels fresh. What happened to the Ghost in the Shell movie, was a mixture of whitewashing, script butchering, and plain-old bad direction, etc. Not to mention that it was "reinventing" something that already existed, in a sub-standard way.
- 64738 9y agoI agree, and I would also like to see something from the Shadow World rpg realm. I think movie technology has progressed to the point where a really cool adaptation could be done.
- jungletek 9y agoI'm thinking you meant Shadowrun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun ) and not Shadow World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_World_(role_playing_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_World_(role_playing_gam... ). I'm not familiar with the latter, but the description of 'high-fantasy' suggests to me that you meant the former. That said, the Shadowrun universe is certainly an interesting mashup of magic and technology, and the fact that it exists outside of a particular story or stories seems like it would lend itself to interpretation and exploration beyond that of an adaptation of a static tale.