Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward 334
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."
Please (Score:5, Interesting)
Just Please don't suck... The books are great and there is a story begging to be made into a movie in them but it would be so easy to screw up...
It's going to be tough. (Score:4, Interesting)
This would have been easier to put together 20 years ago, I think they tried to do a movie a couple of times already but it fell apart.
Nowadays, this is going trying to take the 'futuristic' concepts of global spanning data networks and present them to people that pretty much grew up with them in place, minus the neural interfaces... It was a great book, and I remember in the late 80's was excited to see they were working on a movie. Now, well, I don't think they're going to be able to pull it off.
Next up, Snow Crash? Why not, these things are going to have to be changed so much to make sense in today's terms of technology that they're not really going to be able to resemble the original except in a vague sort of way.
Not an Easy Book to Read (Score:4, Interesting)
Neuromancer is not an easy read. The text is very dense. I reread it last year and, even at my education level, found I had to go back and reread many passages when I realized I had missed important bits of action (the death of an important character happens so quickly and non descriptively you have to read the passage several times to make sure it actually happened).
That being said, this book will translate magnificently to the big screen. As old as it is, it hasn't lost its futuristic feel and foresight; although, wherever megabytes of data are mentioned, they'll have to upgrade them to tera- or pentabytes. I am very much looking forward to this film, but it is still in the early stages and I've seen many promising projects like this die at later stages when the producers look at what's going on and don't get it.
Re:Worried. (Score:2, Interesting)
Diamond Age ONLY if Terry Gilliam were to direct it.
Re:The Future of the Past (Score:3, Interesting)