So about a month ago we let you know Vincenzo Natali’s adaptation of William Gibson’s NEUROMANCER is still alive and well. At Cannes this year, the film secured sales from distributors with an anticipated start date of early 2012. Check out what Natali told Slash during a recent podcast:
“There’s something inherently not mainstream about it, and I want to preserve that. It will be a much bigger film than I’ve made before, and I would hope that it makes a reasonable amount of money, but I don’t think of it as a blockbuster, or even a genre movie per se.”
Natali continued with:
“If it really works, it should in some way step outside any particular genre, or at least outside the expectations we have for a science-fiction film. It should be something new. It’s absolutely a commercial movie, and everyone’s been responding to it as a film that could potentially be successful, but if we were to make it with a big studio I’d be afraid of having those edges rounded off. If we can somehow independently raise $60m, then I’ll be operating with total freedom, and that’s exciting…”
Exciting indeed. Hopefully this thing stays on course and gets rolling in the first quarter of 2012.
Here’s how the book translates: 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…
Natali’s SPLICE star Delphine Chaneac