William Gibson's Neuromancer

[Hookswords]

Making it into a movie: Cool! Seeing who is behind the scenes: Not cool.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/18/william-gibsons-neuromancer-finally-coming-to-the-big-screen/

[Moai]

I've never read the book, but I'm aware of its impact on both science fiction and human culture in general, and I think that it has one of the coolest damn titles ever. I also think it's a shame that it's being put into the hands of the man who made "Torque," which has to be one of the dumber films in recent years.:[

[xoet]

excellent as a Vulcan would say impressive book but no movie ever lives up to the books that are written first as much as say a book lives up to the movie if the movie is first... It gets sorta watered down after the second or third remake

I have always thought to run a motel like the one in the book with just a horizontal closet like hole in the wall for people to "rest" inside of and then move on...all automated self cleaning etc...

[Snarfevs]

To be honest I found Neuromancer dull after reading Snow Crash, though as seminal cyberpunk it seems to be a must-read. Unfortunately I can't see a Neuromancer movie succeeding under the best of circumstances, for reasons of several tens of millions of criminally undereducated Matrix fanatics jumping up and down screaming bloody murder at the presumed knock-off of their favourite cyberpunk popularisation.

This same phenomenon may also preclude success of a Ringworld film. As some kid once told me, "That's such a rip-off of Halo"

[VirusArtist]

this seriously ruins my day... i remember thinking "this is going to be the coolest cyberpunk movie ever made" when chris cunningham still was said to be attached to the flick... now all i'm thinking is "another potential franchise ruined before it even started"

sad world we live in...