Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? 239
An anonymous reader pointed out a link talking about how Vincenzo Natali, writer/director of Splice, has written a screenplay for Neuromancer. The article says he even ran it by Gibson. No studio is attached to the project, but at least Natali promised "No Keanu."
Re:Keanu (Score:3, Insightful)
And Johnny Mnemonic really wasn't all that bad.
Doesn't match the source material all that well, but that's hardly Keanu's fault.
Way too late! (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem is, "Neuromancer" was cutting edge in 1984. If they had made it into a movie within 10 years, they might have had a shot at succeeding, but now cyberpunk is mainstream and all the ideas that were new and different in Neuromancer have become cliché thanks to other films and TV shows introducing it in piecemeal fashion.
"Durr" has it right farther down the thread - "Neuromancer: The Movie" will look like it's just following in the footsteps of dated crappy cyberpunkish movies.
Approval by Gibson? (Score:5, Insightful)
The article says he even ran it by Gibson.
It does not, however, say that Gibson approved it.
Re:This story is a repeat... (Score:3, Insightful)
Nice. Why is everybody an AC in that thread? I thought they had accounts by that point in /.'s history.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=666&cid=1777841 [slashdot.org]
looks like jwz [wikipedia.org]had the second comment...
Re:This story is a repeat... (Score:3, Insightful)
They will make it and I will not watch it.. Hollywood has managed to ruin every old movie and TV show from my childhood and they are NOT going to start with one of my favorite books and take Neuromancer away from me.
Everything ever published has a screenplay written (Score:3, Insightful)
Everything ever published has at least one screenplay based on it.
Seriously. If there aren't half a dozen screenplays floating around Hollywood based on the grafitti at Central Station, I'll eat my socks. Its not worth fussing over. The fact the the movie rights to something have been bought is equally unworthy of notice; they regularly buy up rights to things that might possibly one day seem like a good idea, or even just buy up the rights to things that they think would compete against something they have in production, just to keep someone else from using it.
Now when you hear that they've hired some cameramen and actors and are starting production, _then_ you can get excited (or horrified, or whatever your reaction to hearing that one of your favorite tales is about to be Hollywoodized is.)
Re:Keanu (Score:3, Insightful)
Neuromancer is a great book if it's before 1998 and you're in seventh grade.
I wondered if that was just me. I grabbed a copy of Neuromancer about a year ago to see what the fuss was about. Boring characters, almost no plot, and incredibly dated or ludicrous technology. Presumably if you read it in the '80s the technology it described was forward-looking and exciting, but now it doesn't even have that as a redeeming feature.
Blame where blame is due... (Score:3, Insightful)
Let's be clear... LUCAS ruined it. He did a great job when he was just ripping off Norse myth (and didn't even bother to change most of the names, Luke, Leia, Anakin, Skywalker, Tatooine... all right out of the original Norse), but when he had to actually make up his own content you got Midi-chlorians ...
Watch Jumpers, Christensen did a very good job in that.
Re:Keanu (Score:5, Insightful)
I know people love to hate Keanu. But who else could have played Neo? The Matrix was amazing, and he played a big part in that and he can make as many november rains as he wants and i'll still love him.
Also: point break. bill and ted's. my own private idaho.
Re:Blame where blame is due... (Score:3, Insightful)
Watch Jumpers, Christensen did a very good job in that.
You musta been on some seriously good drugs while watching jumpers if you thought Christensen could act.
Can you hook me up with your dealer?
Re:Splice? (Score:3, Insightful)
It seems to be EXACTLY the same movie as "Species". I can only hope they have as much T&A.
I thought the same thing. The splice alien is not hot unfortuantely. i'll take a pass.
Re:Way too late! (Score:3, Insightful)
Ah the insightful words of a true visionary...
If everybody thought like you did, we wouldn't even have sci-fi to begin with.