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Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner
- thepryz 6mo agoWhile I'm interested to see how they adapt Neuromancer to the screen, I get a sense that the author of the article never read the book nor took the time to understand Neuromancer's place in culture.
- qubex 6mo agoLikewise. Having read Neuromancer a good five years before The Matrix ever hit the cinemas, the two are well distinct in my mind in a manner in which they apparently aren’t to this author.
- ahartmetz 6mo agoThey have very little in common, really.
- joezydeco 6mo agoYou mean lines like this didn't give it away? "Apple TV’s Neuromancer will borrow from The Matrix’s existential mystery and Blade Runner’s textured setting..."
- tim-tday 6mo agoWhat the actual fuck. The kind of person who came up with it has no understanding or appreciation of the genre or the concepts involved. There is no conceptual thread to unify that book and the movie franchise. Wait, wait what if we combined “the odyssey and … the bible!” Wat. “No no, it makes sense. If you ignore everything both books are about, the textural uniqueness and the every concept each of them contains!”
- hyperhello 6mo agoIt’s TV. You’re getting derivative pablum in the best case.
- JimBlackwood 6mo agoI highly doubt the creators for the show are actually combining The Matrix and Blade Runner. It just seems the author is hallucinating nonsense. The Matrix took inspiration from Neuromancer and I guess Blade Runner is the closest we have to a cyberpunk-vibe movie? None of the text in this article are quotes by the creators, it’s just someone who clearly hasn’t read Neuromancer an asked an LLM to write the article and compare it to existing movies.
- pyuser583 6mo agoMatrix isn’t cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of punk. Think bikers, street gangs, heavy metal. The first two Terminators. By the time Matrix came around, punk was out. Not a bad thing. Things come and go. But sadly the cyber and punk parts got confused: Steampunk and Biopunk, which aren’t very punky. I’m usually not a genre stickler, but I just got done reading anthology of early 80s cyberpunk punk. It was shocking. Really shocking. It was more about heavy metal and raves than technology.
- cyberpunk 6mo agoGoddamnit! All I wanted is a quiet life for a few years; and now they're making a biopic about me? They didn't even reach out to my team to gather details. I guarantee they'll probably get my shell and font preferences wrong.
- hyperhello 6mo agoHurry up and get to the studio in your high powered vehicle before your implant times out!
- weard_beard 6mo agoIts ok he'll just slot some new softs from Shinjuku corp and break the ICE on the implants from his VR 3d rendered file system that he jockeys into with his Nintendo power glove. *Oh god, you made me remember Adobe Atmosphere was a thing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere
- Tanoc 6mo agoI didn't know Adobe Atmosphere was a thing. Thank you for providing another example of that strange period of MMO-lites like Worlds and VRML. Interesting to think Adobe Atmosphere versus Worlds mirrors the much later one-sided walloping of Metaverse versus VR Chat.
- mech422 6mo agoHuh - I don't remember Atmosphere ... just VRML ? Thanks for the link!
- weard_beard 6mo agoThe article is the most blatant AI slop I’ve ever seen. Neuromancer is iconic in a way that needs no clumsy metaphor or equivocating awkward comparison. It’s like reading a biography of George Washington and the “author” keeps reaching for ways to explain his traits saying things like, “He was known primarily for his love of cherries, so much so that he chopped down a tree of them. Very similar to the more well known Honest Abe Lincoln who would chop down trees due to his love of cabin building. This is the most important fact about these two men that I found mentioned online.” I feel less educated for having read it.
- subscribed 6mo agoAgree, it's awful.
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- arisAlexis 6mo agoCalling the Neuromancer like that is an abomination and shows total ignorance about Gibson being the OG of the genre.
- archonis 6mo agoAs Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K. Dick than to his sprawl trilogy. ...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.
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- stubish 6mo agoIt will need to be very, very different from the book unless they go retro-futurist. Like Foundation, as they mentioned. I hope it fairs better than Gibson's other adaption, The Peripheral. Like many things I liked, cancelled after one season.
- suprjami 6mo agoMy favourite book finally has its TV show made. I won't get my hopes up.
- nozzlegear 6mo agoI haven't read Neuromancer (though I have read some of the author's other books), but I can at least say Apple's been killing it with tv shows lately. Hopefully this one continues the trend.
- suprjami 6mo agoI have since found the showrunner also made the show Almost Human which I liked. I have upgraded to cautiously optimistic.
- mhast 6mo agoTheir Foundation adaptation is pretty terrible at understanding what the books are about. Going from a story where societies and not individuals are the "heroes" to people with magical powers.