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Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward
chill writes "After years in development, a film adaptation of William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer is finally moving forward. According to a press release, the film has secured sales from distributors at Cannes and visual effects work has already begun. Filming will begin in 2012 with locations in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London."
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Just Please don't suck... The books are great and there is a story begging to be made into a movie in them but it would be so easy to screw up...
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Half of me is excited for the white-knuckle thrill ride and half of me dreads what crap they will spew forth.
Totally awesome. This was way overdue, particularly since the success of Johnny Mnemonic !
This book is from 1984. How can the movie have any fresh ideas? I'm having visions of "lawnmower man."
This would have been easier to put together 20 years ago, I think they tried to do a movie a couple of times already but it fell apart.
Nowadays, this is going trying to take the 'futuristic' concepts of global spanning data networks and present them to people that pretty much grew up with them in place, minus the neural interfaces... It was a great book, and I remember in the late 80's was excited to see they were working on a movie. Now, well, I don't think they're going to be able to pull it off.
Next up, Snow Crash? Why not, these things are going to have to be changed so much to make sense in today's terms of technology that they're not really going to be able to resemble the original except in a vague sort of way.
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Neuromancer is not an easy read. The text is very dense. I reread it last year and, even at my education level, found I had to go back and reread many passages when I realized I had missed important bits of action (the death of an important character happens so quickly and non descriptively you have to read the passage several times to make sure it actually happened).
That being said, this book will translate magnificently to the big screen. As old as it is, it hasn't lost its futuristic feel and foresight; although, wherever megabytes of data are mentioned, they'll have to upgrade them to tera- or pentabytes. I am very much looking forward to this film, but it is still in the early stages and I've seen many promising projects like this die at later stages when the producers look at what's going on and don't get it.
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Due to how badly Gibson's big screen adaptation of Johnny Mnemonic butchered the original story, I am worried this too will tarnish my memories of William Gibson's works. Some stories are better off not being made into movies at all versus being made into a bad movie.
While we are at it, lets ruin a few other cyberpunk classics such as Snowcrash by Stephenson and Software/Wetware from Rudy Rucker.
BTW: Get off my lawn.
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Does London replace Amsterdam from the book?
By the time this thing comes out it's going to be contemporary fiction... if not alternate history.
I think Neuromancer has aged quite well. Sure, we dont use VR goggles, but its still early days as far as the net goes. Bionics, custom drugs and corporate espionage...well...I never believed that a company like Blackwater would come into existence...
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infra-red, How I hate the night.
I wonder how they will deal with the banks of pay phones ...
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That's the movie I'm waiting for....
For the love of all that is holy and unholy, please do NOT shoot this movie in 3D. Tell the story as close to "as written" as you can and put good visuals backing the story up on the screen and the audience will get it. No, cyberpsace does not have to be in 3D to tell the story correctly. It can all be done in 2D and tell an amazing story including all the cyberspace portions of it. And for fuck's sake - get the Sprawl correct!! The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis must have that same Blade Runner-esque feeling to it -- the domes, condensation from them, broken neon, dirty, used up.
Blade Runner was in 2D and would have sucked ass in 3D. Neuromancer can have the same impact as Blade Runner by doing one thing - telling the damn good story from the book on the big screen. Period.
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I agree. This book is a bit like "Dune" in that there is a lot of subtlety. If they plan to make a David Lynch monstrosity, then best not to do it at all.
My question is who are they going to get to play Molly the "Razorgirl"? That would be a big make or break decision for me. =)
Molly shows up in a bunch of Gibon's other books so whoever they pick could appear in potential future Gibson book to movie translations.
In the future, AT&V, being the sole global provider for cell phones, charges outrageous prices and has bandwidth caps in place so tight that you can't even download a lolcat.
The payphone is reborn.
The highest score director Vincenzo Natali has on IMDB is 7.5/10 for the 1997 Scifi film "Cube". He has completed 11 projects as director and has never reached a 8/10 on any of them. Average scores by project type are listed here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622112/filmorate Average scores (IMDB) by type of involvement in projects: --- Art Department 7.24 -- Director 6.59 -- Writer 6.84 -- Thanks 6.77 -- Actor 8.10 -- Miscellaneous Crew 6.50 -- Producer 6.40 -- Unless the strength and originality of Neuromancer's story/characters/universe/plot devices inspires him to "reach new heights", this is going to be a probable 7/10 movie (not bad, but not great either). They could have given Neuromancer to a heavyweight like Fincher, Scott, Spielberg or someone like Mathieu Cassovitz (of "La Heine" fame) and it would probably have turned out tremendous. Alfonso Cuarón who did a tremendous job on "Children of Men" comes to mind as well. I hope they don't f%ck this up. Neuromancer is brilliant material. Definitely in the Top 5 best realistic Scifi books category if you ask me.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
the measurements for each dimension are:
x: popular with general audiences, unpopular with general audiences
y: financially successful, financial failure
z: popular with subculture fanatics, unpopular with subculture fanatics
ok, now amongst those 8 spaces, place your bets:
like lord of the rings? (winner on all 3 dimensions)
like watchmen? (winner in both popularities, loser financially)
like solaris? (only a winner with the subculture of diehards)
like tron? (winner in general popularity, failure in subculture popularity, winner financially)
etc., etc.
8 possible outcomes
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Off topic and most likely trolling, but I have to admit I have a hard time getting into fiction as well.
What fiction I do read is the classics; Hemingway, Dickens, etc. Never could get into sci-fi or related genre.
Gone!
:-(
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...will it have Will Smith in it?
It will be so easy to screw up this one. Some stories fit only in books. I guess they can base movie on Neuromancer, but that's the whole different set. Just like Blade Runner - great movie but different story focus from the original book. And that one was made in seventies. You know, before theaters were filled up by Fast And Furious 1 to 16. It's a fail - almost certainly.
"We have introduced the idea to demographic panels assembled from shoppers at Mall of America, and feedback is generally ambivalent, with many blank stares. However, we have found that this movie will do better in the 18-34 female demographic if 'Neuromancer' is retitled 'New Romancer.' Also, there should be more bodily humor and scatological jokes. 'Too weird', 'I don't get it', 'Something your weird brother would watch', and a doodle of a cat is the dominant impression of the movie from the questionnaire forms. We also suggest cutting the running length from 2 hours, 30 minutes to 45 minutes. This can be accomplished with little damage to the source material and remaining true to the author's original intent, by removing only the plot and the coherency. Plot and coherency seemed to matter the least to the demographic in our surveys."
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They're remaking The Matrix so soon?
So now that Neuromancer is out of development hell can we get Snow Crash next? Preferably with a great script and a great director to helm it.
Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.
As someone who didn't read books like Neuromancer or Snow Crash until the early 2000's I don't know about this. The books were originally done in a time when the internet and virtual reality were something people thought they were more than they really are, ideas that lead to such nonsense as the latest Tron movie where a virtual world somehow creates it's own life form and can then come to...our life...Besides a lot of updating would need to take place, remember Johnny Mnemonic could only hold 160GB in his head and that was AFTER a "doubler" was applied...
I would chuckle if they had Keanu do some type of a cameo as Johnny in the movie though his character isn't in that book, I think Molly is the only one who is in all the stories IIRC...
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Sorry this is about 20 years too late. which means its going to suck as hard as Tron -2 the resurrection of a dead franchise.
I'm excited. Loved the book (and the Amiga/c64 game!). But then again, I also liked the movie Splice...
Try the book the article is about. Poetry. Fucking poetry. It is not the laser-guns and spaceship sort of Sci-Fi you are used to (even if there are lasers and spaceships in it).
Other reccomendations for the genre:
Stranger in a Strange Land (unabridged only - don't read the 1961 version)
The Ophiuchi Hotline - one hell of a twisted tale
Anathem - but only if you are a nerd (you better be if you are here)
Oh wait.....
The nice thing about Gibson's cyberpunk novels is that the plot is generally compact enough that it should be relatively easy to fit it into a 2 hour movie.
I don't think the subject matter is nearly as dated as some are suggesting. Certainly, it's no more quaint than the junk Hollywood movies constantly put out. But really, a writer with a reasonable amount of talent and sense would update and improve any those elements. The problem, of course, is that good writing seems to be a scarce resource in Hollywood.
While this news has me excited I'm not confident that they wont just botch the whole thing. I can think of quite a few near-future sci-fi movies which have been terrible and have placed far too much emphasis on action.
While it's not a classic yet (and is somewhat unlikely to become one), I'd nominate "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk to be made into a movie. It's got the whole neural interfaces, time travel, and dystopian future thing going on. It does take a second read through to really get the significance of what's going on though. Plus, since it was written so recently, it won't destroy any childhood memories of the original work like so many of these 'classic-literature-turned-to-movies' have done. The way the book's written would transition easily to the screen; playing out like a documentary. I'd love to see what Guillermo del Toro would do with it.
Maybe its because I (mostly) grew up with the internet, but upon my recent re-reading Neuromancer really struck me as a story about redemption. Maybe its because like many 'post'-Depression people I worked a manual labour job and had seen "The Company Men" recently, but I think you'll see a lot of surface elements that we think are important stripped down to focus on that.
Probably could also try Earth by David Brin and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. I'm reading Zero History by William Gibson.
I believe the correct response is 'DO NOT WANT'....
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Those who read the book know how horribly wrong a film adaptation can go... I think drawing parallels is relevant because both books have great movie potential, but also a huge amount of room for spectacular failure.
But the possibility to fail is no reason for not trying, so more power to them. :)
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Oh AND OR Jerry Pournelle.
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...the Matrix jacks into YOU!
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
I'd have to agree with you that the unabridged version of Stranger in a Strange land is much better, but is it a genre novel? As I understood it, Heinlein wanted the book to straddle the line between 'mainstream' fiction and SF, much like Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five". It's intended by the author to be read either like the SF elements are real, or like they are either a metaphor or a delusion of one or more of the characters. In Stranger's case, the reader just about has to accept some SF elements as objectively part of the story background, so I guess you can claim it's genre, but others, which in this case are far more important to the story, remain optional. Maybe Michael Valentine Smith really knows some things of a deep spiritual nature, or maybe he's just trying to think in a way no human can really think, due to being exposed to inhuman influences as a child. Maybe it's a religion, maybe it's alien superscience seen through the distorting lens of human limitations.
Who is John Cabal?
When Johnny Mnemonic came out I was so excited to see one of Gibson's books on the screen. The movie was horrible and completely butchered the material. There is no way that they can screw up Neuromancer that badly.
Crappy book written by someone who took their first computer back because it made a noise.... (the hard disc)
:-/
A number of things can go wrong... 1 - The budget gets slashed at the last minute (from dollar 55 million to dollar 25 million for example) because the producers have 'nagging doubts' about its merchantability. 2 - Bad casting choices that don't fit the characters in the book. 3 - Brutal editing and scene deletion to get the film under 2 hours (e.g. butchered to 102 minutes runtime with titles when 135 minutes are needed to tell the plot without jumpy pacing and loose ends). 4 - Dumbing down/oversimplification of the story. 5 - Changing the story to the point where Neuromancer becomes Neon-man-city. 6 - Poor art direction choices to make the material more appealing to 2012 cinema viewers (vs 1984 scifi book readers) Lots of smooth NURB design on everything (because NURBS sell mobile phones, cars and so on in the real world). 7 - Messing up the tech in the novel (brain-jacks are suddenly wireless with bluetooth-likee headsets)... the 'Matrix' is different from the novel... Case's 'deck' is made by Apple or Nokia with a big glowing logo on it. 8 - Trying to make Neuromancer more Matrixy (slow-mo action with 360 degree camera and so on). The list just goes on and on and on...
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
I read the book as a teenage and young adult. I noticed reading it that Gibson must have no experience with computers. I also found that part where written that well. I think its loved because ppl wanted to be hip about computers in the 80s and it been riding on that ever since.
Don't forget The Princess Bride.
Oh wait. That movie fscking ruled.
I keep telling them I don't want these flames coming out of my faucet!
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with watchmen, it was popular, but a financial failure because it cost so much to produce and market
if you make a movie for $1 million, and it makes $2 million in theatres, its unpopular but a financial winner
if you make a movie for $150 million, and it makes $100 million in theatres, its popular but a financial loser
there's also cases like shawshank redemption, which was a box office failure, but went on to be greatly loved in the television and video afterlife. here popularity grows over time (starting out as obscure, not starting out as unpopular)
so no, sorry, Y is a firmly independent variable of X and Z
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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I think I'll pass on seeing both movies that shouldn't be made.
As long as we don't have Keanu playing the main character, I think this movie will be all right.
It's Hollywood. Don't get your hopes up. 99 times out of 100 they bungle things so badly you barely even recognize the source material.
They'll cast Keanu as Case, brace yourself for that. And Molly will be probably be played by Fran Drescher. Wintermute will be voiced by Owen Wilson. And that's if you're lucky.
The plot changes will be as maddening as what they did to Dune or the Lord of the Rings trilogy at a bare minimum. It wouldn't surprise me if they decide that Wintermute is actually a gnome running around in the computer net and have him pop out Wizard of Oz style and start granting wishes. He will of course be played by Danny DiVito.
On a more serious note - just give up. Don't go see this movie. It's going to suck, it can't help but suck, and you'll be back here complaining about the suck after you watch it. Mark my words. Hollywood can't get anything right, ever. EVER.
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rediculous.
Slaughterhouse Five is considered to be SciFi? Besides the time traveling aspect, I don't really see it.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Supposedly, a movie for Altered Carbon is coming out soon too.
:-|
Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" nailed the dark & gritty future back in 1982, a couple years before Neuromancer was published.
Wachowski brothers' "Matrix" nailed virtual reality in 1999.
Dozens of other decent movies have riffed on these and related themes in the last 20 years. "Gamer" in 2009, "eXistenZ" in 1999, and "Magnetic Rose" in Katsuhiro Ohtomo's "Memories" (1995) come to mind.
(Oh and let's not forget the "Wild Palms" miniseries back in 1993 that was directly influenced by Gibson's work. Or maybe we SHOULD forget it. ;)
I'd love to see some of the works by Brin, Banks, Reynolds, and Vinge translated to film. However, "Dune" taught us that a richly imaginative scifi novel cannot be translated to a theater-length film (1984), and that it was not cheap enough to produce a decent quality series (2000).
I look forward to the time, perhaps 10 years from now, when one of these authors' works can be made as a high-quality 20+ hour series.
I plan to NOT watch this movie no matter what the reviews. I have pictures in my head from reading the novel, and I happen to like them the way they are. For exactly the same reason I refuse to watch any movie made from any book I really like, "The Road" being a recent example. I do admit that a good movie can come from a good book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" for example, but that was done years ago when craftsmen made movies for intelligent audiences. If remade today, Atticus Finch would be played by Justin Bieber and Tom by Snoop Dog.
Duncan Jones should be both writing and directing this movie. Or possibly Alfonso Cuarón.
based on feel alone.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
The main character has a middle name of Dorsett? Why didn't anybody point this out to me? I would have read it years ago. I can't point other similarities I saw in the wiki.
- a programmer with that as a sir name (so yea, not very anon.)
Idea:
Assume the wireless network is so polluted with competing systems that it costs a lot of money and paperwork to get a good hacker-quality connection, because everybody is using it for small trivialities. Then change "payphone" to "pay-as-you-go ethernet port"...
Agreed. However, I don't think the shitty movie adaptions of Asimov or PKD have tarnished their reputations.
I seem to recall a few scenes in Snow Crash, that weren't exactly family friendly. I am not sure how they might translate on screen. You could cut them all out I suppose.
Never underestimate the ability of Hollywood to fuck up any source material.
Don't blame Hollywood on this one. William Gibson wrote BOTH the novel AND the movie script. In other words, the book author is the one who failed to translate text novel fantasy into big screen visual reality, or failed to understand the differences between writing about future and recreating the visions of future.
1. Operation Screaming Fist.
2. low-G / zero-G sequences in Freeside / villa Straylight
3. Rastafarian space navy flying around in pot-smoke filled space tug.
4. The conversation on the last page where wintermute/neurmancer says that it has found others like itself.
Nah, this should go straight to DVD, with those side stories spun off as extras, where they can be properly unfurled.
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Slaughterhouse Five is considered to be SciFi? Besides the time traveling aspect, I don't really see it.
Besides the one thing that absolutely and unequivocally makes it sci fi, you don't see what makes it sci fi? Time travel is science fiction, and if that's not good enough for you, it also has aliens. Science Fiction doesn't mean it is set in the future and has space ships and blasters.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Sure, but the time travel is never explained, nor do they go into any scientific aspects of it. So you consider ANY story with time travel or aliens to be SciFi? Just curious as everyone seems to define what SciFi is differently. Would you consider the movie Donnie Darko to be SciFi?
"But this one goes to 11!"
Yeah, I would consider Donny Darko to be science fiction. But it is a gray area, as the time travel isn't really explained. Perhaps speculative fiction is a better term. But science fiction doesn't need to have blasters, space ships, and robots to be science fiction. If it is about human interaction with a scientific or technological phenomenon including such things as aliens, time travel, or a universe made of rock where the planets are voids in the rock (a very old science fiction short I read) then it is science fiction.
In fact, I would call Donnie Darko science fiction, while I would call Star Wars fantasy. Donnie Darko focuses on human interaction with a scientific phenomenon, time travel. Star Wars is just a fantasy story where blasters and the force replace magic.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
if done properly, or really really really bad if not.. I doubt there will be a middle ground with this.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Larry Niven's Ringworld really should be done first.
And what is with not even starting production for 2 more years.. then what, another 2 to film it.. perhaps 1 more to be cleaned up before its seen.. 5 years away is a LONG time to be talking about it today.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
The plot doesn't Hinge on the Minge, so we're good?
Yep. Slaughterhouse Five is science fiction. So's Frankenstein. A Christmas Carol is a horror story, as is MacBeth. Lot's of famous stories properly belong to genres that they are not usually associated with. SciFi and Horror usually get so little respect that when an awesome SciFi/Horror story comes out, people tend to pop them out of the genre in their mind.
Of course, even SciFi and Horror look down their noses at Fantasy... :-)
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I do not think that SciFi is all blasters and robots. But as you said, Star Wars is not SciFi and I do not consider it as such, but others do. Straight fantasy stuff - substitute the force for magic, blasters for swords, and stormtroopers for evil knights and you have a medieval fantasy. But if you are loose enough in definition saying all interaction with scientific or technological things, that is almost all movies/stories. I think when the story is based around such things it is easy to make the SciFi distinction. But if the story only involves those things on a minor level, where do you draw the line?
"But this one goes to 11!"
Between the two of them, you have a well rounded writer.
I drank what? -- Socrates
But if the story only involves those things on a minor level, where do you draw the line?
Good question, and probably the reason a lot of people don't consider Slaughterhouse Five to be science fiction.
I just figured it out. I'm biased. I think of science fiction as 'cool' and people who like science fiction as 'interesting.' So I'm going to massage my definition of science fiction to include as much 'cool' stuff as possible, and exclude crap that is 'boring.' Thus, Slaughterhouse Five goes in, and Star Wars goes out.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Daemon would be even better than Snow Crash. Sure, it's not technically Cyber Punk, but it has all of the elements and is much more up-to-date and terrifying.
Besides, The Delivinator won't work any more because the pizza delivery scene dropped the '30 minutes or free' thing for exactly the reasons that it was so sensational in Snow Crash. That is, pizza drivers who were afraid they'd have to pay for a late pizza would drive like crazy and occasionally get people killed.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
Finally, a group that will know what I'm talking about. ;)
The producers are in talks with John Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal for the lead role. (Gotcha!)
But how can the filmmakers make the ninja deadly serious when we even have turtles made in their image?
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How long is "Lord of the Rings?"
Like 10 hours?
It's not exactly feature-length but it was a "normal" movie.
Luckely it was divided into 3 parts, like the book[s].
Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
I'd go for a 26 episode anime "Sprawl Trilogy" series made by someone like Gainax under the supervision of someone like Shirow Masamune ... my final fantasy.
There is an excellent two part Radio adaption of Neuromancer made by the BBC in 2003, it's been updated to have email which jarred when I heard it, but is a faithful & well-written & produced radio adaptation.
If you like audio books you'll love it "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Oh yeah, best first line of a scifi novel EVER!
http://boingboing.net/2005/03/17/neuromancer-radio-pl.html
Nico M, London, GB.
Because "I, Robot " published in 1950 did not turn out to be a pretty good science fiction movie - like it or not, special effects and designs rock in the film.
On the other hand I also hope they do not make it suck. I own and sometimes watch Johnny Mnemonic, that had a good cast, but turned out to be .. hmmmm. not meeting my expectations.
I forsee failure. As much as I'd like this movie to get made, considering the fact that it's "gone forward" and then gotten dumped again several times makes me think that things will fall apart this time too. As long as it's better than Johnny Mnemonic, I'm happy =)
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The movie will bear no resemblance to my mind's rendition of Neuromancer, and I will be profoundly disappointed. I will probably watch and rewatch this movie a few times, regardless.
If "Splice" is an indication of the type of movie treatment we can expect for Neuromancer, then we should all be very very afraid.
Apparently, movie ratings are currently suffering from score inflation. I see lots of healthy B-grade scores hovering with an average of 7/10 for Splice.
Based solely on this thread, I just watched Splice. It wasn't worth it. I am sure there are worse movies on earth, but this one has nothing redeeming to it. It's a 1/10 at best. The only thing that impressed me about it is that someone bothered to finish and release it to the public.
Didn't they already do a loose film adaptation of this? It was called the matrix or something
lets hope william gibson gets to write the movie script ... :D
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need the flashback to when the 3jane mom had the idea about them A.I.s on algerian beach?
need attack on the russians with the ultra-lights and escape to finland?
need congress hearing of corto and failed screaming fist?
need the exploding wasp nest with the tessier-ashpool logo?
need flashback to cannibal children in bonn?
yes to all above! and more!
Novels do not make good movies - short stories make good movies, but a novel needs to be a mini-series or full series. Novels have character development that is critical to the impact of the storyline, and movies are too brief to support such character development.