Neuromancer

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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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Dr.Retarded

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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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What you got against a code breaking dolphin that Iced T rescued from a military experiment!?!
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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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I rewatched Strange Days earlier this year, and it's still a fantastic film. Watched Johnny Mnemonic as well, and despite it being still fun and something I enjoyed when I was younger, it definitely shows its age. I guess you can argue the same thing with strange days and the whole Y2K deal, but at the time it was a pretty awesome movie.
 
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Sanrith Descartes

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I also disagree with this being a series. The novel doesn't need 8 or 10 hours of screen time.
 
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murderbot is on Apple TV+ and really great, while its easy to fuck this shit up badly i have minor hope. I do prefer Stephenson's cyberpunk novels to Gibsons (yeah I know, he was first) so less attached/interested anyways.

sadly the HBO Snow Crash series was cancelled during development, dunno if any of his stuff is in the works
 
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I recently re-read the books. A first timer will read it and find it odd. A few things are slightly off.

Then you tell them it was written in 1980.

I really can't see anyone doing this justice. Maybe David Lynch with a half billion dollars? Oh wait he's dead I think.

But yea what Arbitrary says above. So much of the stuff in our world, nevermind entertainment, was lifted from this book.

Gibson has a fun forward in the kindle release. The very first line of the book mentions the colour of the sky looking like a television tuned to a dead station. He makes the point that younger people won't even know what that means. They've never seen analog tvs.
 
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Oh another note, I just realized that something good might come out of this!

When I read the third book, there was a girl that grew up in an arcology, and when she got out she had a corporate tshirt on. I actually looked for one because I wanted one, and the best I could find were some stickers on amazon. (I ordered them and don't think I ever got them)

But yea, maybe someone will make official Maas-Neotek or Ono-Sendai merch :emoji_laughing:
 
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Oh another note, I just realized that something good might come out of this!

When I read the third book, there was a girl that grew up in an arcology, and when she got out she had a corporate tshirt on. I actually looked for one because I wanted one, and the best I could find were some stickers on amazon. (I ordered them and don't think I ever got them)

But yea, maybe someone will make official Maas-Neotek or Ono-Sendai merch :emoji_laughing:
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