Neuromancer

Wombat said:

There's just not much to Neuromancer, and its not like you can add much from Count Zero, given that it's an entirely new cast. I suppose you could maybe work in some random Burning Chrome bits, but the only really relevant chunks (namely Molly's participation in Johnny Mnemonic) are going to be tough to include without that chunk of characters.

And we all know (from Johnny Mnemonic) what happens when they stretch the source material.

(I admit I am in the partial Johnny Mnemonic defense force. The editing is extremely dull, and you could get a tighter product with a re-edit. Nothing will fix the 90s dolphin tech, however.)

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Arbitrary said:

I WANT ROOM SERVICE

The largest hurdle to a film adaptation of Neuromancer is it's own success as a novel. You can't read that book for the first time anymore. You've already read it even if you don't know it. Every single fucking thing in it has been lifted several times over to the point where the original becomes retroactively derivative. I didn't realize I had experienced every single scene of Casablanca until I actually sat down and watched the movie itself. The looting perpetrated against that film is criminal. Visiting works that hold that kind of position in fiction (Night of the Living Dead for zombies or Alas Babylon for nuclear apocalypses as examples) can be well worth it but I wouldn't want to be the guy giving the OK for a couple hundred million dollars to be spent on a film adaptation.

edit - loves me some Strange Days, that movie is so fucking good

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