Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward 334
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from the can-you-think-of-any-reason-not-to dept.
from the can-you-think-of-any-reason-not-to dept.
chill writes "After years in development, a film adaptation of William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer is finally moving forward. According to a press release, the film has secured sales from distributors at Cannes and visual effects work has already begun. Filming will begin in 2012 with locations in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London."
Wait until the Hollywood suits get ahold of it (Score:5, Funny)
"We have introduced the idea to demographic panels assembled from shoppers at Mall of America, and feedback is generally ambivalent, with many blank stares. However, we have found that this movie will do better in the 18-34 female demographic if 'Neuromancer' is retitled 'New Romancer.' Also, there should be more bodily humor and scatological jokes. 'Too weird', 'I don't get it', 'Something your weird brother would watch', and a doodle of a cat is the dominant impression of the movie from the questionnaire forms. We also suggest cutting the running length from 2 hours, 30 minutes to 45 minutes. This can be accomplished with little damage to the source material and remaining true to the author's original intent, by removing only the plot and the coherency. Plot and coherency seemed to matter the least to the demographic in our surveys."
Re:I just have one question... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Future of the Past (Score:3, Funny)
If it wasn't generated by 20 somethings during the last decade, IT'S CRAP!
The MTV generation just won't tolerate lame old fogey stuff.