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The MovieMan looks at Gibson's NEUROMANCER script... an early draft
Hey folks Harry here, and I am here to introduce this review of Neuromancer. This script has been floating around for seemingly forever, but remains unmade. Great novel, great ideas and story... Will it ever equate a good movie? Personally I'm happy with having the book... But a film would be waaaay cool. Here's MovieMan on this old draft he found...
I'm a huge Neuromancer fan. I'm the Neuromancer equivelant to a "Treker"
or "Trekie". I suppose you could call me a "Mancer". Anyway, I recently
got a chance to go over a copy of the script for William Gibson's
Neuromancer. Bottom line: I loved it. The draft I read was dated 5/19/90
and was around 130 pages long.
The Plot
Case is a hacker in the year 2015 (a date they might want to change). It
opens up with Case having his nerves fried by Sense/Net (a private
company that serves as a police force who protect corprate intrests on
the matrix). A year later he's running drugs in Chiba City (Japan)
looking for a black clinic who can cure his fried nerves. He gets setup
by someone named 'Wintermute' and his girlfriends killed by the Yakuza.
Case then meets the street-wise leather-clad Molly. Molly takes Case to
Armitage, the leader. Case is recruited into a team who's mission is to
"burn" (kill) an A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) called Wintermute.
Characters
This is what makes Neuromancer different from other Sci-Fi flicks of
it's kind. The characters in Neuromancer are well written and have more
deapth then say those in Johnny Mnemonic. Case has real motivation to
carry out this mission. There's a great scene where he explains how he
became a hacker to Molly. Molly is another well written character. She's
an intresting character because she's the one kicking-ass, not Case.
Some of my favorite dialouges have been left out, like the one where she
talks to Case about "Johnny" and how he was killed ny the Yakuza.
Unfortunatly, because this is only a two hour movie, the other
supporting characters are simplfied a bit. Armitage's backround is
pretty basic. Malcome and Aerol aren't much different. They're still
outer space rastafarians. Rivera's a little different, but he's still
really creepy. And Wintermute could be a great villian in the tradtion
of HAL 9000.
The Action
Well, written and exciting. The action in the script gets your blood
pumping but also doesn't overshadow the story. I can't wait to see some
of these scenes on the big screen.
The Changes
In the book cyberspace "cowboys" are rampent but in the script all but a
few have been "retired" by sense/net security inc. (including Case). The
ending is also slightly different, I don't want to spoil it here but it
should please both movie-goers and fans of the book.
Overall
This one is a winner. This could be the next great sci-fi flick like
Blade Runner, Alien, Metropolis, or Forbidden Planet. If any of you
reading this have read the book and have a question about the script or
if you've read a different draft of the script and would like to share your
thoughts, e-mail me at MuvieMan7@aol.com.
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This would be really cool if it pans out. The script sounds okay, but a lot can go wrong. Has anybody else seen this screenplay? Is this project actually in production? I seem to remember hearing something a while back with some MTV-video-boy-first-time-director attached to the project. I think this would be totally the wrong way to go for Neuromancer. You need strong visuals, yes, but not like the fast-cutting, over-produced, Armageddon monochrome crap you see on MTV. You need someone first who knows how to tell a story, who understands character, because this ultimately is where Gibson's main strengths lie. After you've got that, then you just have to worry about the visual look of the world, and you don't want an MTV hack who would do some sort of half-ass Blade Runner meets Nine Inch Nails. Oh, yeah, and the casting of Molly would have to be perfect. Molly should be the most ass-kickingest screen heroine of all time, but I'm not holding my breath for Hollywood to get it right. Just look at Johnny Mnemonic. Ugh!
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I've lost interest in Neuromancer since reading Snow Crash, which may have come after Neuromancer but is more original, wittier, more demented, and has characters you actually care about, as opposed to the "angst repositories" of Neuromancer. Make THAT one into a movie, Hollywood. Or don't, you probably wouldn't get it right anyway. BTW, I think it's funny that we're talking about the characters being better than those in Johnny Mnemonic, since Molly is in both stories! Are they going to try to get Dina Meyer to play her again?
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Didn't anybody see The Matrix? Since this sounds like virtually the same story, and Hollywood loves to follow aproven thing with anexact replica as possible, I'm sure we'll be seeing this soon.
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ACTUALLY, Matrix borrowed most of its elements from Neuromancer and other cyberpunk novels/short stories from the 80's, dumbed them down a little, and made it into a movie. Even the Hong Kong action elements are in many works in the genre, such as Neuromancer and Snow Crash. I'm not knocking Matrix, it kicked ass, I was glad to finally see a cyberpunk-esque movie done with the gritty panache that the genre deserves, but in terms of story, character, or stylistic originality, it is just no match for the Neuromancer trilogy (Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive being parts 2 & 3), or Snow Crash, which somebody else mentioned, which would make a phenomenal movie if done right. Actually, the success of Matrix is probably a bad thing for Neuromancer, 'cause it probably will get made now, but not by anybody who has the slightest understanding of it. Analagous to Star Wars in '77; broke new ground, was a phenomenon, but was followed by hundreds of crappy imitators.
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If Nueromancer gets made I hope that they get someone with a little bit of vision to direct it. I would hate to see just another techno music filled action flick like Johny Nemonic, or the Matrix (even though I thought that was a very cool film). Blade runner was and is brilliant because it had a totally new feeling to it's world. The style of the film was creative and not just derivative like most "cyber-punk" style films seem to be today. I would love to see someone like Terry Gilliam, or especially Juene and Caro (City of Lost Children, Delicatessin) try to give this film a new creative direction and make it more than just a "cyber-punk" movie. After all even if it may not be the best "cyber-punk" it certainly is the most creative, considering it actually created the entire science fiction sub-genre of "Cyber-punk" (at least as it is today, since some of the very basic ideas had been touched upon in the past).
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Well, this could go really well or really horrible. The themes in most Cyberpunk literature are great, however, the eighties style is quickly becoming obsolete. Even Gibson himself has abondoned most of them, prefering a less glam, more "dirty" kind of world that he presented in _Virtual_Light_ and _Iduro_ (sp?). Presonally, I'd prefer to see _Count_Zero_ made into a film, simply because the tale of a wanna-be hacker hasn't been ripped off a zillion times. Of course, I've heard rumors of all three of the "Cyberpunk" trilogy being made into films at different times, but all we've got to show for it is "Johnny Mnenonic (sp?)" and a version of "New Rose Hotel" that might of might not ever hit a theatre... Oh yea, btw, Neal Stephenson is a good author, but Gibson still has more talent in his left pinky than Stephenson has in his entire body...
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Fuck! When are they going to make a -GOOD- fucking film about hackers!? Meaning, one that actually knows what a hacker is, and not some fucking stereotypical media bullshit! I'd do anything to read this script. Someone knows where to find it, tell us. I -WANT- to fucking read this. I seriously hope that if this thing gets made, they -DO- use a visual based director, and not some Micheal Bay/Wachowski/Matrix/Lost in Space/Hackers (christ, I'm still pissed about that pile of shit for a film I wouldn't wipe my ass with, they totally mis-used the term "hacker", the fucking retards! Even stole lines from an actual manafesto, and passed it off as original dialogue for those gay ass Razor/Blade fucks!) fucking wanna-be-techno-style-director-bitch. Wanna use a fucking style clone? Try finding someone who rips from Kurosawa, -OR- -BE- -FUCKING- -ORIGINAL- and leave the goddamn techno shit out of it! I'm going to go warp my mind on -GOOD- visuals, and watch _Seven_Samurai_, followed by _Rashomon_, and _Ran_
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I spent almost a whole year taking Gibson's novel to pieces, and I absolutley loved it. I was very dissapointed with the close similarities to The Matrix, but it was different enough to juxt coax enjoyment from me. Although, I am hoping that a film here doesn't dissapoint. Most people expect a movie to be just like the book, and never is. Personally I am looking forward to another interpretation to the text. At last, to see the future as a macabre and excitingplace.
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The title was "Idoru" - I have it. It was actually my first Gibson novel, and I plan to buy the others. Neomancuer(my turn for sp) is the next, and I hope it's as good as I hear. If the script is available online, would someone who knows where to find it post it? Harry, if all of you get these secret scripts, why not make copies, and put them somewhere on the site. Add links to other pages like you did for the SST images.
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Please note that Chris Cunningham is a small time god and visionary. With an Aphex Twin soundtrack as well this movie is going to make for something very very very special that will blow your heads back.
Lets hope they get the casting right. -
... I'm going to do my weird shit magic show for all to see!
Gibson rules. The Matrix ripped off stuff from all his novels (which I got, including a signed copy of Idoru) but was still cool. Can't wait to see Neuromancer made. Anyone know where I can get hold of the screenplay? Has Gibson written it himself? If he has it'll be cool - his Alien3 script was miles better than the crap that got made. -
Indeed. Jim Cameron would probably be the best man to direct Neuromancer (this guy Cunningham may be good, but could he russle up a big enough budget?). The story involves one of the most kick-ass female roles ever written, and we know he loves those women. He has the right vision and sense of grandeur, and he always sets his best action at night. Now I know he doesn't like to do other people's stories, but then, he used to hate period pieces, and look what happened.
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"hackers" blah blah "matrix" blah blah "AI"...someone wake me up when movie execs think of a new Sci-Fi film?
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I thought Sneakers was a pretty good "hacking" type movie even though it had a bunch of old people. Not the traditional 16 year old geeks like the ones reading my post :)
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Hold on, did you say the script dates from May 1990? If that's right, then I think what you have is a bona-fide artifact of a movie that could have been . . . but wasn't and most likely will never be. Still a cool collectable if you're a Neuromancer fan, but it sounds like a project that was being worked on a decade ago, wound up in development hell, and was dropped. Otherwise, surely some news on the project (at the very least, the name of the studio working on it) would have come out more recently. In any event, even if the project were picked back up, that script would probably be rewritten beyond recognition (such is the propensity of the studios). So don't hold your breath for this movie to come out any time soon.
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Let's hope James Cameron isn't involved because he'll rewrite the screenplay and murder the dialogue. And he'll probably cat Ladyboy Dicaprio as Case and Kate Winslett as Molly. Somehow I can't see her with silver eyes!
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this film will be shit (by the way i own the book and love it) and this is why: 1. Filmakers do not know how to treat Gibsons work e.g Johnny Mnemonic (crap), his ALIEN 3 script (not even produced as it was too original), and the new one directed by Abel Ferarra (which sounds like a bloody awful pretentious load of shit. They either think it is art-house or comic strip nonsense and just dont get it.
2.Chris Cunnigham is a music video director and we all know how many of them have produced good films- er none that i can think of. However i can think of many really shit films made by ex-music video directors e.g anything by Michael Bay, THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, HIGHLANDER 3 and many more ( and before anyone says anything yes i know Ridley Scott started off in advertisements) Cunnigham will produce a pretentious load of MTV style bullshit just like the guy above said and will not be able to get the budjet and the high profile the project needs. It'll be straight to video for this one.
3.Most of the ideas form NEUROMANCER have already been used in film, stuff like HACKERS, SNEAKERS, WAR GAMES, THE MATRIX and various anime stuff like GHOST IN THE SHELL. -
If you follow those Chris Cunningham links that were posted a few messages back, you would see that a NEW script adaptation is being written by Cunningham. Not only that, but he says he's doing a small film first because doing Neuromancer for his first film would kill him. Cunningham's work is simply the best stuff in music video in the moment, with perhaps the exception of Michel Gondry (the guy who has done most of Bjork's videos, along with the new "Let Forever Be" by the Chemical Brothers.) Anyway, I can't wait to see this film. And with a soundtrack from the god of music Aphex Twin, as someone else said, this will be special indeed.
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Wow, the omnipotent wise ones at AICN have elevated themselves to new and loftier heights. They know when a movie will suck before anything besides the director has been set. I wish I had such prescience. Can one of you gods-on-earth provide me with the next winning lottery numbers, or who will win the Kentucky Derby next year?
When you wannabe slick-boys get tired of prancing around trying to look cool through pseudo-intellectual hyperbole, you might want to check out the official site:
http://www.neuromancer.org/
...if you care to condescend.
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I have checked out the the NUEROMANCER website and i still stand by what i said. You have to be extermely stupid to believe that hti film will be any good ultimately the book is the victim of its own sucess- i can see the reviews now- "no-budjet matrix rip-off" people should be trying to adapt gibsons other novels like IDORU or COUNT ZERO. -
Chris Cunningham was born to make movies, and i'm not talking about the candy-pop, sugar coated bullshit that Holywood executives consider "dark", but proper, sinister movies that will genuinely innovate and shock.
He is a bigtime fan of all things electronic, and spent a long time building puppets and robots (see..Autechre's "anvil Vapre", Bjork's "All is full of Love", the ABC warrior in "Judge Dredd"). As well as working closely with Kubrick, he also helped in the design of the Alien in Resurrection.
If you took the time out to even watch one minute of any of this genius' work, you would realise that he is the perfect man for the job.
Cunningham and Aphex are close associates and friends and they have always wanted to do a full length feature together, as Windowlicker and Come to Daddy were both basically short, scary movies, using an Aphex song as the soundtrack...source of information? Some magazine interview with Aphex when Come to Daddy was released here in the UK. Neuromancer has been in the works for several years, and Cunningham has secured a budget from a major studio of over -
Several things, though I'll keep it short because Gibson gets me into prolix mode.... 1)WIRED did a small piece on Cunningham: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/mustread.html?pg=14 (look for "Screenager"). 2)PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not let James Cameron anywhere near this film. 3) (to the poster above) How are you going to do COUNT ZERO without doing NEUROMANCER first? Or for that matter, IDORU without doing VIRTUAL LIGHT first (since COUNT ZERO comes after NEUROMANCER & IDORU comes after VIRTUAL LIGHT). 4) Now's a good time for a good movie based on Gibson's work to come out since his new novel, ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES is coming out this fall 5) To the person who mentioned that Molly Millions was in JOHNNY MNEMONIC...She was in the short story "Johnny Mnemonic," but they renamed her Jane in the horrible movie (thank God, because if they'd screwed up Molly, heads would have had to roll) 6)It's about time this site mentioned the Neuromancer project. 7) As much as I like her, screw Angelina Joile as Molly...the only actor I've ever seen who's come close to Molly is Carrie-Anne Moss' Trinity. 8)I love Aphex Twin, but I hope they choose to do a soundtrack with lots of artists including Photek, Spacetime Continuum, Roni Size, & lots of others (including good ol' Richard D. James). I need to stop this now, because I will go on forever.
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Current Sci-Fi trends have borrowed so much from the Gibsonian universe. I think it's time to put some Gibson up on the big screen and reset the standard for cyberpunk. We're long overdue for a well written, high caliber, kick ass Sci-Fi flick.
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The thing is, i read all of these posts talking about how the hollow, eyecandy movies are in the same breath, kickass, but just not all there..
What i get from the book and then this recap, (i read it a long time ago) is that this story might be a really interesting choice for someone who dosent have a rep as a "visual" (whatever that means anyway, arent radio plays the only ones non-visual) director, but someone who is more of a character director. Mike Newell is a english bloke who really, if you break it down, had no business directing the tale of a undercover FBI agent infiltrating the mob! But Donnie Brasco was a GREAT movie.
Not for nothing, if im thinking of the right video, that Aphex Twin video is FREAKY, and could be amazingly cool....
Maybe Hollywood will steal all the video directors, and videos can go back to being vanity projects for rock and roll still photographers!!! (Ok, so thats just wishful thinking by a photographer) -
!!!ANIME!!! The best way to adapt a Gibson novel! !!!ANIME!!! Get Katsuhiro Otomo, or Momaruu Oshii(sp) to direct it! There is no way they will give some MTV video director a big enough budget to do it correctly (even if he is a supposed genius (never saw a video by him, so I can't judge). Hell, they'd even be able to get the characters to look -EXACTLY- as desribed in the novels, plus better action. So use animation, and make it right![BTW, how difficult is it for the media to understand this simple concept: `Hacking is not illegal, cracking is -- Hacking = Programming -- Cracking = breaking into shit'?]
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Though I'm a rabid William Gibson fan and would love to see his Trilogy ("Neuromancer," "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive")translated into film, I'm worried
that the novels have exceeded their expiration date. "Neuromancer," I believe, was first publsihed in 1983 or 1984
and was considered a breakthrough; the first cyberpunk novel and the the birthplace of that now ubiquitous term, "cyberspace." But in the fifteen years since, the book's once novel elements have been canibalized by damn near every hack writer/director/film-maker in Hollywood and beyond. Even the abysmal "Tek War" television series made liberal use of concepts appropriated from Mr. Gibson's fertile imagination.
"The Matrix?" The very essence of "Neuromancer" filtered and distilled for the upcoming millenium! I mean who else was the superb Trinity except Gibson's Molly Millions tricked out in dark glasses and black leather? I want to see Neuromancer" made, yet I'm fearful that, because Hollywood has waited too damn long, the end result will just be something that we've already seen many, many times before. -
Though I'm a rabid William Gibson fan and would love to see his Trilogy ("Neuromancer," "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive")translated into film, I'm worried
that the novels have exceeded their expiration date. "Neuromancer," I believe, was first publsihed in 1983 or 1984
and was considered a breakthrough; the first cyberpunk novel and the the birthplace of that now ubiquitous term, "cyberspace." But in the fifteen years since, the book's once novel elements have been canibalized by damn near every hack writer/director/film-maker in Hollywood and beyond. Even the abysmal "Tek War" television series made liberal use of concepts appropriated from Mr. Gibson's fertile imagination.
"The Matrix?" The very essence of "Neuromancer" filtered and distilled for the upcoming millenium! I mean who else was the superb Trinity except Gibson's Molly Millions tricked out in dark glasses and black leather? I want to see Neuromancer" made, yet I'm fearful that, because Hollywood has waited too damn long, the end result will just be something that we've already seen many, many times before. -
Damn...
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well, checked this thread again and boy do people get excited! Never heard of Cunningham, as i don't follow music video directors by name (spike jonze being the only one i know by name). I do think there is good work being done in music video--Bjork's solo videos have all been very impressive little movies, Jonze's stuff is good, Fatboy Slim produces good stuff, Sugar Water (the one with the amazing split screen work), that new Chemical Brothers piece, etc. etc. However, with only one exception that I can think of (Alex Pyoras and Dark City) video directors just haven't made good movies, and anyway, usually the video directors who get movie deals are not the ones doing the innovative work. Anyway, I'll try to check out some Aphex Twins stuff and get more familiar with Cunningham's ovure. I'm interested in seeing whether any of this talk of the project actually being in development right now pans out; my impression from the date on the script was that this was a DOA project.
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As a fan of both Neuromancer and Snow Crash, I agree with the critic who wrote that Neuromancer was the first Cyberpunk novel and Snow Crash was the last.
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Cyberpunk existed before Gibson, though NEUROMANCER certainly made the biggest crossover splash. Read the introduction to Bruce Sterling's re-issue of THE ARTIFICIAL KID by WIRED's book division. Gibson wrote that particular intro. In it he talks about being inspired by Sterling's novels before he'd written one of his own. Lots of posters have obviously read Gibson & Stephenson, but has anyone else read Sterling? If you haven't, get thee to a book store pronto! Another thing...many of the cyberpunks (most of whom hate that name, btw) discuss being inspired by the likes of Philip K. Dick & Samuel R. Delaney, two writers ya'll need to read, as well.
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When I was a bit younger I read all the Neuromancer trilogy and then the later books. I think this potential movie is great news, but I dout it will be made, considering the script is a decade old and after the Matrix.
But if this film ever *was* made, I want to be Molly! I always wanted to kick ass like her...Do any other girls agree? Any other girls admit to reading this stuff? Molly was one of my heros in those impressionable young teen years and that has made me the charming but highly unbalanced neurotic I am today.
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yeah, you read me right. I'd love to see this film made, I'm sorry to see the idiots thinking that this is just another Matrix ripoff. I have read all of Gibson's books and own both the paperback version and ten year anniversary hardcover edition of Neuromancer, I have bought two copies of Virtual Light, and made highlights of particularly memorable passages in Neuromancer. Snow Crash wasn't all that good, it ended horribly and was far too silly for my tastes.
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Hmmm. I was hoping that this project wouldn't move forward until I had a chance to helm it. Gibson is one of my three biggest influences. The other two being Frank Miller and Akira Kurosawa. Anyways, it looks like I didn't get my foot in the door soon enough and I'll have to watch Chris Cunningham's vision of the BAMA Sprawl and the Gentleman Loser. Let's hope Mr. Cunningham doesn't screw the pooch like another music video director who botched his first feature film...Robert Longo, director of Jhonny Mnemonic. Proj on!
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Instead of Snow Crash or Gibson (Then again The Difference Engine would be cool as a movie!) How about Stevenson's "The Diamond Age"! Talk about Hong Kong action!
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Why are so many people suggesting that it's too late to do the Gibson novels as movies? I didn't know there was an expiration date on literature. Was BLADERUNNER too late? Dick had been writing since at least the early sixties, but that movie didn't get made until the 80s. Should they stop production on THE LORD OF THE RINGS just 'cause the books are so old. I mean, what's up with that? Cyberpunk evolved in the late 70s (not the early 80s as many people have been suggesting). I mean great novels like Sterling's SCHISMATRIX & the Shaper/Mechanist short stories that go along with that novel are almost 20 years old. Who gives a damn. It's still great. Cyberpunk didn't start with Gibson, but he's the best known of that particular group of writers (more suggestions for further reading...Nancy Kress, Greg Bear, David Brin, John Shirley, Paul DiFillipo, Rudy Rucker...the list goes on and on-ya'll need to read more, I'm serious). Go ahead and make the movies, especially now that they're technically feasible. THE MATRIX proved it. Hell, GHOST IN THE SHELL proved it. I'd love to see the whole trilogy done with the surprise at the end of MONA LISA OVERDRIVE kept until the end of the films for those who haven't read the novels (though because of sites like this, surprises are rarely kept these days).
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is brilliant. this guy got himself hired by clive barker at the age of 16. i had a copy of his reel a few months ago and watched it over and over and over. it had the squarepusher, aphex, madonna, and portishead videos. from concept through every aspect to, especially, editing, he's a groundbreaker. chris cunningham is perfect for neuromancer in the same way pjackson is perfect for lotr.
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yeah, you CD-i people know what I am talking about.
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I still stand by my point. I'll use the LORD OF THE RINGS to illustrate. Talk about a trilogy of books that have been picked over. There are writers out there who owe their entire careers to Tolkien. So what. It still looks like the movie will be great. Anyone with an imagination will appreciate a well-made NEUROMANCER film regardless of the fact that the book has influenced a lot of material out there.
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Now, I could be wrong about this; but didn't David Fincher get his start directing music videos? I think Fincher's work has been among some of the greatest of the 90's. I saw the preview tonight for FIGHT CLUB (it played with LAKE PLACID... yes, I saw LAKE PLACCID. I was bored okay?) and was blown away. As for who I think would be a good director for NEUROMANCER (a book I love dearly tho I would like to see "Burning Chrome" made into a movie) how about David Lynch. Think about it for a moment, eh?
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Almost any story in the Burning Chrome collection (a book which, by the way, I would include in my "stuck on a desert island with only 10 books to read" list) is worthy of a film treatment provided that the right elements come together. Better yet, rather than expanding upon these perfectly written short stories with useless sub-plots, added characters, etc. the smart thing would be a limited series produced for cable. Of course one couldn't include Johnny Mnemonic, sadly, as it was among the best in the book.
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Yeah, there were "cyberpunk" novels before Neuromancer, but Gibson's trilogy defined the genre. And frankly, if they're planning on making one, they better make all three. Neuromancer isn't about some guy cracking black ice to get into an AI, or some street samurai girl carving up Yak assassins. It is about the nature of intelligent life. (The Difference Engine explores similar themes and I agree with Stainles Steel that that would be one kick-ass movie, although some moron somewhere would undoubtedly try to compare it with Wild Wild West). You can't really tell the story of Wintermute/Neuromancer without including the second and third installments. For those of you concerned about the director's previous credentials, I'll remind you that Jonathon Demme started out making exploitation films for Roger Corman. And finally, I agree that Snow Crash was fun, and Hiro would make a great Protagonist, but The Diamond Age is a much better book.
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Cool yer jets on this one. I have a copy of Gibson's Neuromancer script, and it's nothing to get excited about. Sure, he's a great novelist, but the guy has no idea howto write MOVIES. Just look at his Alien 3 draft or Johnny Mnemonic. Don't blame Hollywood for the JM movie - blame Gibson. Everything that's wrong with that movie is right there on the page.
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When I saw Johnny Mnemonic was being made and Molly wasn't in it, but a "molly-like" character was, I figured it was because somebody else still had film right to Neuromancer so she couldn't be used in the new film. What sucked big-time about JM:the movie was that they tried to splice in the cyberspace bits from Neuromancer even tho' it wasn't used in JM:the short story. I thought JM was the most "noir" of Gibson's work and it was a big mistake to get too tech-y with it. Remember the scene at the beginning where Johnny goes into a meeting with nothing but a sawed-off concealed in a bag full of gym socks. As he says, "when they think you're gonna go high-tech, go low". Oh, yeah - it also should have been filmed in B&W.
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I know this'll piss off a lot of Gibson fans, but being a true sci fi fan I must stress that I think his ideas are good but Neuromancer just bored the hell out of me! I couldnt even finish the whole book, I struggled towards that distant end and just abandoned the whole thing..anyhow...Chris Cunningham has probably got the best shot at impressing any of us detail obsessive freaks with such a project. A man with his vision and utter skill is most likely the best candidate to pull that movie off in a good fashion. Shit, look at that mans eye for anything, ..cinematography, editing, composing, design, fuck! Hes a damn rennaiscance man so much more grand than Cameron or any of these other "Lack of conceptual talent" directors. He's young, hes in touch and above all has the taste and ability to pull something like this off! JohhnyM sucked, hands down..the matrix, sorry but it sucked too, at best they were maybe cute b movies to go into some future-teens' cheesy retro video collection. They lacked believe-ability and originality (nothing we hadnt seen before). I want that feeling I got when i saw BladeRunner for the 50 billionth time and realised just how much appropriate design and logic went into creating that world, and I think this man will do it.
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I'd give my internal organs to see Michael Mann's film version of "Count Zero". It was due to be made by Turner Pictures but seems to be on hold at the moment.
Anybody got any news on it.
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