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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[Lifyre]

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...

It's going to be tough.

[Psyko]

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.