gonuts

Neuromancer + Emo Darth Vader = ?

Insomnia Bob

There's a good deal of Gibson I think that is filmable. Neuromancer isn't.

Slatz_Grobnik

NFlames

syncpulse

syncpulse

Grib

As for pattern recognition, that could work well with nice washed-out tones and a little bit of grit to it. I liked the fact you could google a lot of the stuff in it too, like the buzz rickson's jacket (they later produced a version just like the one in the book). I also strongly suspect one of the characters was based on Chris Cunningham and liked that a lot of real-world locations, places I know, were in it. One of his best.

bob_jesus

perlmonger

joelogan

da5id_nz

As someone above mentioned, I don't know how they will visualize cyberspace. It wasn't done very well in either Johnny Mnemonic or Hackers. Gibson's text in the book is all about virtual skyscrapers and the like though, but maybe they can just create something entirely new for the movie.

I very much enjoyed Pattern Recognition - I've read it 2 or 3 times now and still enjoy it. There were a lot of interesting things in Pattern Recognition you could Google for afterward like the Curta and Bibendum. I feel he was off his game in Spook Country and it kinda bored me.

da5id_nz

Corwin

I'm willing to give Anakin the benefit of the doubt. Also, Case is supposed to have a damaged nervous system and he's a hacker, so perhaps a flat affect is what the character needs....

hiro_protagonist

jzellis

bob_jesus

mr4fingers

steamrunner

Jim Treacher

@Victheremin: A good big screen adaptation of Bester is long overdue; as long as it's not "Golem^100". "Tiger, Tiger" or "Demolished Man" would be stellar.

delicious.palindrome

I have a huge love/hate relationship with the idea of a Neuromancer film adaptation. How can they capture Cyberspace as Gibson visualized it in the 80's without looking like the arcade game "Tempest"? Can this unknown director capture the chilling suspense in the scene where each individual payphone rings once as Case is led away by the AI squad?

sawzy

JoshJasper

Reason #2: Nothing can spoil my love for the book. The audio book is actually pretty great - Gibson reads, and there's some incidental music by U2.

andrew60647

I can't decide if it'll be worse than Johnny Mnemonic.

engtech

nukethewhalesagain

Charlie Jane Anders

kfunque

Plus, I think there was a little knowingness in the way TORQUE exceeded its genre limitations. Anyway, most directors have to hack one or two out for the studios before they get a shot at doing anything decent. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. For now.

Mark Kardwell

Great story, not long enough to make a full-length film out of, and it shows. The last 30 mins were flashbacks to the first 30. Terrible stuff, and was my fav story in BC.

lunafish

if gibson is directly related to this, and or, party to the piece of shit it will spawn...i will be sad.

to not care about your own creation enough to see an experienced director and a decent cast put to it makes me uninterested in reading any future work.

christensen is a block of wood. he couldn't 'act' the part in a home movie about himself.

wtf, gibson?

dinergy

[www.williamgibsonbooks.com]

So is Weir back? Or are the sources scrambled somehow?

hangingfire

Mr. Black

I agree, he's terrible in the Star Wars prequels. But George Lucas is to blame for that. Lucas is an awful director, and perhaps his biggest fault is that he can't direct actors. That's evident all the way back to the first Star Wars film.

But Christensen is pretty decent in other films he's appeared in. He's phenomenal in Shattered Glass. And he got great reviews for Life as a House (I haven't seen it myself).

extracrispy

EncephelanetRepairHelperGuy

I agree with TETRACYCLOIDE.: "You can do that, if you do there's a risk you could inherit his power of completely sapping any and all emotional chemistry from any and all situations."

Perfect. Not only was Hayden completely unable to feign the slightest bit of desire for Natalie Portman, he could barely even look at her. This is the love that would have him betray everything, slaughter children, and become Darth Vader? Sure. After Lucas's brilliant casting in THX-1138, American Graffiti and, even, the original Star Wars trilogy, Hayden was a particularly sore spot on a set of prequels that had a good number of sore spots.

deathbychichi

btgoss

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I didn't like the movie version of Johnny M. either. Disaffected and jaundiced youth != bland, wooden, non-reacting "actors". Cast someone who can at least pretend to look smart.

Evil Tortie's Mom

FrankenPC

A case can be made that Bladerunner was the first cyberpunk movie.

victheremin

This will all end in tears.

victheremin

David Arata is a good writer too, shouldn't do too bad with the adaptation.

Seth L

CMG

kromekoran

Still, I just love the way Gibson writes.

WickedGlee

caryian

Granted, that site says Christensen will star as "Cage" (lol!) so what-the-fuck do they know?

extracrispy

Danilo Campos

aegies

That said, I just can't see Young Vader here playing the main character in Neuromancer.

Rhainor

An SVU detective would throw up from seeing the rape that was forced upon Asimov's good name.

zenpoet

OMG! Ponies!

92BuickLeSabre

aspiringexpatriate

NefariousNewt

Trust me, I'm a doctor

Inconvenient!

On the other hand: brains are tasty.

braak

Peter Weir, on the other hand, has already had one success (I'd argue) with a near-future/alternate present work extrapolating currently troubling social trends. And I liked Pattern Recognition better than Neuromancer anyway.

Crash Launching

tetracycloide

goldfarb

papercup mixmaster

DO NOT WANT!

OMG! Ponies!

I don't like him, I mean.

braak

Adapting Neuromancer to the screen is going to be a huge challenge and extremely easy to screw up. Am I wrong?

Pattern Recognition, however, I can see as a movie.

WickedGlee