It’s amazing how many times a Neuromancer adaptation has been optioned, in development, and then fizzled out. There’s a comment I posted on a previous occasion

It’s amazing how many times a Neuromancer adaptation has been optioned, in development, and then fizzled out. There’s a comment I posted on a previous occasion, all the way back in 2011 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2565734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2565734), that I think still holds up 13 years later: > It's almost certainly too much to hope for, but my impossible dream is that this gets done up like it's the 1980s with circa-2012 CGI. A bold kind of retrofuturism we haven't seen yet in film. > Thing is, you can't take Neuromancer out of the '80s. The newness of computer networks, the ascendancy of Japan, the aesthetics of computer hardware -- boxy, whirring things with stark, green CRTs spewing masses of indecipherable alphanumeric incantations, big clunky cables, heavy briefcase-size mobile units; it's all there. And the mash-up of digital and analog technologies is no less integral than Gibson's opening lines to the book, comparing a halogen-hazed night sky to the analog noise of TV transmission. > Neuromancer didn't arrive into a world comfortable with computer technology like ours today. The book stands as a fantastic trip back into a time when technology could be dark, dangerous, and foreign, a zeitgeist Gibson leverages to dazzling effect. "Updating" Neuromancer would bring its entire shadowy world out into the unthreatening, mid-day sun. If any streaming service has proven hospitable to retro futurism, it’s Apple TV+. I'm cautiously very hopeful that the Sprawl has finally found the right home for a translation to screen.