The trick with adaptations is to tell a story that resonates with contemporary themes using the bones of the source material. For example compare Thanos in the

The trick with adaptations is to tell a story that resonates with contemporary themes using the bones of the source material. For example compare Thanos in the MCU to the character in the comic books. Same name and look, same actions (snapping away half the universe), totally different motivations and context. This is an incredibly fertile time to be adapting Neuromancer. Private space travel controlled by eccentric billionaires is an actual thing now. Independent AI seems way closer than ever before. Hacking and security are huge topics among governments and technical industries. Parts of the story have to be updated for base plausibility anyway (4MB of hot RAM). If the show runners do it right, they will update more than just that so that it resonates with us today. That’s a creative achievement too. Heck, a lot of Shakespeare’s plays were adaptations.