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After Johnny Mnemonic, I'm kinda shocked that he'd allow this. Granted film effects have come a long way, but it'll take a hell of a screen writer and director

• w1ntermute 15y ago
  > I'm not sure it could live up to expectations. Oh, it's almost guaranteed not to. But who cares? Even if it's only half as good as the book, it'll be a great movie, particularly when you compare it to the bilge that permeates cinemas these days.
• technomancy 15y ago
  On top of that, can you imagine how tiresome the repeated "what a Matrix rip-off" claims are going to be?
  • dkersten 15y ago
    The sad thing is you're most likely right :-(
    • jacques_chester 15y ago
      It will however give an opportunity for Eldernerds to post a link to this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/
• joebadmo 15y ago
  WG has actually maintained, even very recently on twitter, that he quite enjoyed JM. He did write the screen play.
  • hartror 15y ago
    I didn't hate it, but I have never felt the need to watch it since I saw it as a teenager.
    • ahi 15y ago
      Same here. I remember liking it, but I was 12... Gibson's writing is good because he develops incredibly complex social systems and structures for the reader to navigate. He does this mainly by leaving gaps in the world that the reader has to imagine or guess at. Some of them are filled in, as the plot progresses some of them are filled in and explained. This is incredibly difficult to do well in film. Directors are always tempted to show everything and producers demand it if there is the budget for it. The world becomes simpler, flatter, maybe a little silly.
• hartror 15y ago
  Vincenzo Natali actually seems to know what he is doing unlike the so called director of Johnny Mnemonic.
  • uriel 15y ago
    A worse problem with JM was the so called actors.
    • hartror 15y ago
      Which the director has at least some control of right?
• starwed 15y ago
  The director is apparently Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice).
  • gnosis 15y ago
    The Cube was utter garbage. This hack does not deserve to make Neuromancer.
    • hiroprot 15y ago
      Be glad...initially the guy who did Torque was slated to be the director
    • starwed 15y ago
      I didn't like Cube very much. The acting was bad, the premise was a bit silly... but still, it had something which made it interesting. And it was the guys first movie, on a tiny budget. I haven't seen Splice yet, but have heard mostly good things about it. So don't write off the guy just because of Cube.
• burgerbrain 15y ago
  Call me a lunatic, but I really enjoyed Johnny Mnemonic (the international version with the extra scenes from the extended Japanese version spliced in and sub'd). It was by no means a flawless movie (Keanu Reeves' acting was about as bad as bad Keanu Reeves acting can get, and they royally fucked up Molly Millions' character (apparently because they didn't have rights to use the actual Molly Millions character due to a Neuromancer movie attempt or somethig)), but all in all it really felt Gibson. Stylistically, I think it was dead on. EDIT: goes over the differences between the international version and the Japanese version: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1523&In=Quer http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1523&In=Qu... basically, they removed nearly every supporting scene for the main Japanese character, and the explanation of the ending.