Hidden within a very random story over at The Hollywood Reporter (Jason Priestly is directing something called MUD PUPPY) is the news that Vincenzo Natali (SPLICE, CUBE) has come aboard the feature film version of William Gibson’s legendary NEUROMANCER. Music video director Joseph Kahn (the brilliant TORQUE) was previously attached to the adaptation.
The book, first published in 1984, is Gibson’s most famous novel, an ode to all things cyberpunk. Here’s the synopsis: Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway–jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way–and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance–and a cure–for a price.
While I haven’t read the book for myself, I know of its reputation, as well as its enormous fanbase. There are thousands of people who must be super pumped at the prospect of a NEUROMANCER film. Are you one of them?
TORQUE star Monet Mazur
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