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antonraubenweiss.com — William Gibson ’s Neuromancer is the most famous early cyberpunk novel. In 1989, Epic Comics published a 48-page comic version by Tom de Haven and Bruce Jensen. It only covers the first two chapters, "Chiba City Blues" and "The Shopping Expedition", and was never continued (Wikipedia).

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  • jibone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What do you think of Neuromancer to become a film? Or was it done before?,..
    • RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Neuromancer is a great novel but impossible to translate into film. The Matrix got around Gibson's wacky polygonal cyberspace by making the computer world look exactly like the real world. Putting the superhero-like abilities of the agents and hackers against the backdrop of the mundane is a lot easier to film and more visually interesting than Gibson's original vision. Who is going to sit through all the scenes in which a "virus" breaks through "ice?" These work brilliantly thanks to Gibson's skill with English but would be dull and repetitive in CGI.
    • sooperdooper, on 10/12/2007, -27/+2poop
    • synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I think it could be done, but in order to do it well the film would have to find some way to make the cyberspace scenes visually appealing and innovative, the characters deeper, and the plot compressed to standard film length. Emphasize the globe-trotting, the culture of that era (the body modifications and fusion with technology) and the world in which the characters live- make it about a real, living future world. This would keep the cyberpunk flavor while keeping it a very different film from anything related to The Matrix.
    • Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7We actually read the necromancer for one my classes, which turned me onto the fact that a screenplay was actually being drafted for the book. We saw this clip, not sure if it's the real deal, but it looks pretty bad. http://www.kokos.cz/bradkoun/movies/neuromancer.txt
      Furthermore, the wiki confirms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_hell#Neuromancer
    • xioner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A Neuromancer film would be aweseom, especially if they did not try to update it. No need to worry about Gibson's version of cyberspace, it still sounds sweet.

      Problem is that the rights were bought years ago and the film has been totaly locked down in lawsuits and failed projects ever since.
    • NeoCortex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If they made a Neuromancer film, the Cyberspace elements (if kept to what was described in the book) would likely be similar to what was seen in Hackers. I don't know if I could take that for half a film.
    • Troff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19@RadiantBeing:
      "Neuromancer is a great novel but impossible to translate into film. The Matrix got around Gibson's wacky polygonal cyberspace by making the computer world look exactly like the real world. Putting the superhero-like abilities of the agents and hackers against the backdrop of the mundane is a lot easier to film and more visually interesting than Gibson's original vision. Who is going to sit through all the scenes in which a "virus" breaks through "ice?" These work brilliantly thanks to Gibson's skill with English but would be dull and repetitive in CGI."

      Apologies, RB. There isn't a single part of your statement with which I could agree.

      - It's not impossible, it wouldn't be impossible at all. It's been DONE.

      - "Johnny Mnemonic" used "Gibson's wacky polygonal cyberspace". How many effects shots went into making "The Matrix"? How much modelling and rendering time was spent doing the Burly Brawl scene with six zillion Smiths and a rendered Neo? If anything, OpenGL quality graphics would be MUCH easier. It's like Monolith making the "TRON 2.0" video game - they realised they could make a compelling game with an absorbing world that didn't HAVE to reflect reality, it had its own consistent scheme instead that didn't have to look like the real world.

      - "more visually interesting than Gibson's original vision": step outside and you can see "the real world", the only difference is we don't have all those Smiths and a Neo who can fly. Shots like the opening scenes of "Mnemonic" or (shudder) "Lawnmower Man/2" have a design all of their own - and an attraction in that they DON'T exist in our world. That's the sort of stuff we see regularly, routinely, now in superhero movies.

      - `Who is going to sit through all the scenes in which a "virus" breaks through "ice?"' - um... a quarter of the people on Digg, most of the people on Slashdot, anyone working in CGI right now and pretty much anybody in the computer industry and/or who was raised in the 70s, 80s or 90s and anybody who comments on the graphics in video games?

      - "These work brilliantly thanks to Gibson's skill with English but would be dull and repetitive in CGI.": Gibson's skill with English lets him describe a VISUALISATION of a process of a virus attacking "ice". On top of that, it'd be down to whoever was the visual designer. The whole art-style has spawned the visuals in those movies, not to mention the art used in CCGs like Netrunner, the book art in the "Shadowrun" "Virtual Realities" supplement, the introductory CGI used in "TRON", the other afore-mentioned movies. That'd work brilliantly thanks to the Visual Designer and modeller's skills with design and CGI.

      No offence intended, but it WOULD work. Indeed... it already has. Repeatedly.
    • twangbender, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2im sure your post has something valid to say but frankly its too long and i am too lazy
    • punkisnotdead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually think a film would work very well. I agree with the poster who said that they should leave the technology exactly as Gibson imagined it - even down to the retro typewriter computer decks. If I recall correctly, there wasn't THAT much action in Cyberspace.. what struck me most about the book was all the cool stuff that happened in the real world - the city, the space station, etc.

      I think a film version of Snow Crash would also rock hard, for all the same reasons.
    • popfrogs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Who is going to sit through all the scenes in which a "virus" breaks through "ice?""

      Anyone who played the C64, Amiga, or Apple IIGS versions of Neuromancer knows how exciting a battle with hardcore AI can be, both viscerally and visually.

      Nothing is more hardcore than hearing your own heart rate monitor going nuts while you're getting hammered by a nasty AI, and launching the final volley of cracking software seconds before your impending death, hoping and praying that you'll finally break it and live. That game, despite the poor graphics and constant 'insert disc X' prompts, was one of the most thrilling games in the cracking genre. Nothing has compared to it since except for maybe Uplink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(computer_game)
    • 1021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1forget this supposed free graphic novel (very bad resolutions). Here is a very high quality audio book:
      http://btjunkie.org/torrent?do=download&id=4324bf954849d7addbac5f47b24e3634aa3d0a0f7af0.torrent
    • nihilisticdream, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe someone already said it and I missed it skimming the thread, but if not. . .
      Gibson wrote a script for Neuromancer that was pretty impressive at the time, though given the limitations in theatrical effects he had to tone it down a bit. He had a taker for the script, but problems with money and assembling a crew eventually led to him shopping it out again. Essentially, between studio mergers, poor management and organization on the film side, etc., Gibson eventually yanked the script. By the time the movie would have been made, his very original script was out-dated in regards to the technology available and enough writers had read his work to begin incorporating cyberpunk elements into their sci-fi scripts. Essentially, he felt it was bad enough he had to go through what he did with it, but to release it and be accused of not being original was a bit more than I believe he was ready for.

      In a quick response to the Johnny Mnemonic comments: visually, I think it's come about as close as anything to representing the matrix Gibson would have envisioned as an author in the time he wrote Neuromancer, Mona Lisa and Count Zero. We need to remember. truly remember, that only 15 years ago we were looking 256 colors on a monitor that was too far removed from the VGA green screen- for Gibson to visualize cyberspace in primary colors + gray, silver, black would have been the utmost of normality; to try to imply anything close to a realistic appearance would have undermined the credibility of the future he created, because no one would have believed a computer could faithfully produce a photo-realistic image.The progression of the perception of cyberspace or the matrix can be seen to follow along with the progression in technology. Tad Williams was the last author I personally read that incorporated it into a new novel (series), and his was more or less a photo-realistic world where the users could modify their avatars/belongings into unrealistic looking creatures (all the grafts of the Panther Moderns, white-washed in monochrome, for example). Given the perception of where technology was headed at the time Johnny Mnemonic came out, the visualization of cyberspace was probably to most accurate thing to Gibson's vision that had been put into film. The real problem with Johnny Mnemonic is that a well-done short story was stretched out into a feature length, and rather than using the extra space to develop the characters a bit more, the director decided to just try to pad it with action scenes. Oh, and while he may have done his career's best work in the Matrix, I think casting Keanu Reeves as Johnny was the real death knoll of that film. He may have been popular, but even now when I watch him in the role I keeping expecting him to break out in an "Awesome!" or "Bogus!"
  • ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Neuromancer rates high on my bookshelf. Alongside "Snow Crash".

    I'm glad that at least it was considered to be a full graphic novel. I'd like to see both Neuromancer and Snow Crash to be translated to the big screen, although as with all books turn movie, it would lose the essence of the imagination (Seeing the Ice in the matrix).
    • kolanos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Snow Crash would be like The Matrix meets Pirates of the Carribean meets the Da Vinci Code meets Fight Club -- or something like that.
    • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't forget the swords.
    • streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I dunno... I appreciate the effort that went into this, but I still prefer how it all looked in my head.
    • m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Swords don't run out of ammo.
  • rbeschizza, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I always thought that Gibson's cyberspace should be realized as a kind of sinister arcadian paradise, hazy and unreal, but otherwise realistic enough. Users refer to items using the universal language of the matrix, but each has skinned it for themselves.
  • DesignExplosion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"Free JPGs" lol.
  • redmond007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19the jpgs are too small to read
    • AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Are you telling me that you don't have Neuromancer memorized?

      -edit-

      Holy crap, those ARE tiny.
    • zzpza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why go to all the trouble of scanning, uploading and hosting with pix this small? you can hardly read them.

      however, imho that's for the best. case, molly, rats, julius, everybody looks wrong. as do the locations. this is not the world or people i imagined, so i'll stick with the version in my head.

      i also second that GitS and SAC are the closest we've come to a neuromancer film.

      good find though.
  • tooasianguys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Dugg for an awesome book and an amazing writer
    • popfrogs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah it's too bad that as Gibson ages, so does the genre he created (along with Neal Stephenson). I still like the whole gritty Cyberpunk feel, but Gibson has abandoned that world and now creates stories in the very near future. Crap like Idoru has really hurt my opinion of the man.
    • netant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@popfrogs

      "Pattern Recognition" is pretty good, if you're into Gibson toying with ideas. The story kinda models how the "Internet Tech" investment thinking works now. I found it eerie how he writes about YouTube a few years before it actually hit the mainstream. (I really doubt he saw it in operation before he finished writing his book.) (Of course, there are ill-thought out aspects of the future too.) Its not very actiony or "Philip Marlowe"-like read; its more like DaVinci Code in pace. People in the advertising industry might appreciate it a little more too.

      (Perhaps my appreciation of the book is unique to me; I share the protagonist's unique "allergy to branding". I don't go into nausea or panic attacks, but sometimes commercials (tv or radio) start triggering irritation/rage responses in me.)

      Its not Neuromancer or the Burning Chrome collection, but I put it above the Neuromancer sequels, or Difference Engine. It makes me took forward to picking up "All Tomorrow's Parties". And I agree, Idoru sucked calcified soap scum on a tub that hadn't been washed in one year.
  • john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5http://www.duggmirror.com
    *edit* hmm... duggmirror didn't catch it.. Must have been all those "free JPGs" that brought the site down.. :P
    • Deranged, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Duggmirror is getting slow.... They need to be on top of things a little more...
  • aussieaubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5its duggdotted..... bloodyhell digg - fix this friggin problem....... cache it before you release the page...
    • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6dotted for correct use of dugg. wait, no. dugg for correct use of...dootedsdlfkj
  • GiJoeBob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I had a few copies of this GN and I ended up getting them signed by Gibson at ArmadilloCon. He told me that he was not thrilled at the quality of the artwork. LOL

    I would like to see this novel as a movie as well. But as others have said, it would be difficult to do. Just look at another of Gibson's works make into a film - Johnny Mnemonic - what a dog that was.
    • azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow, blast from the past. I had this! Sold it along with most of my comics before I moved to Japan.
  • HolyJuan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Acton and I were having this conversation today. Snow Crash would have made a great movie except that it is about eight years too late. So much of what he wrote about is the crap we are doing right now. And right now is pretty boring.

    Except for Smart Wheels. Oh, and damn I'd love to see who would play Y.T.
  • djsputnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3in the post-matrix era, neuromancer would never translate to film. the graphic novel however, i've been trying to get my hands on a copy for years. now if the site would just load. . .
  • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6From 0 to dead in less than 13 minutes. Impressive.
  • zaren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6In my local library they have an audiobook of Neuromancer, read by WIlliam Gibson himself. Very interesting to hear such a classic story read aloud by the author.

    It also has incidental background music by some group called U2...
    • djsputnik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bono and gibson are actualy good friends
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20060518004119/http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gallery/neuromancer-graphicnovel/index.html
  • markperia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5dont bother with the graphic novel. The artwork is annoyingly bad. Rather than complementing the story it just takes you away from it.

    The book however is stunning.
    • jeffgtr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Agreed, the book is wonderful, as is the sequel Count Zero, stay away from the graphic novel, it will ruin it for you.
    • Hootyea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Count Zero is good, but not as good as Johnny Mnemonic. Although, Neuromancer is better than both.
  • lopati, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i have this lying around somewhere :P chris cunningham was attached to direct at one point! ...but yeah, between bladerunner, akira and the matrix, it's already been mined...
  • dontera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dso does anyone have a mirror of this, or better copies? Would love to see it since Neuromancer is one of my all-time favorites.
  • cavadela, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I own a copy of this in Portuguese. I didn't know it was a "rare" edition. I also have a copy of the paperback Neuromancer in English and then a hard-cover in Portuguese. If I remember correctly it jumps over several parts of the novel, more or less like movie adaptations sometimes do. Maybe this was an attempt to storyboard a movie adaptation that never made it and got published as a graphic novel?? Never thought about it that way.
  • Fallout911, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Get the audiobook here!!

    http://www.greylodge.org/gpc/?p=119
  • Predater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They did make a Neuromancer game long time back. It's available on abandanware game sites. The game was great. Came pretty close to capturing the novel's idea.
  • Evanmontegarde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Neuromancer has been one of my favorite novels since I first read it three or four years ago (And re-read it several times to actually make sense of it...). I really don't see how a movie would work, The Matrix is honestly the closest that I think is possible.
  • dougdug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I still have this one from when it came out - had no idea it was rare. I would agree with Gibson about the artwork, though.

    Once a year, every year, I reread Gibson's 'Sprawl' series.

    And every year I am amazed by how well it has held up ...
  • muka3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12PDF version of this: http://www.sendspace.com/file/hj0mg6
  • mobtek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4WTF does Molly look like a guy? :)
  • dholle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's been a life long dream to see Neuromancer brought to the big screen. It would take a few geniuses to accomplish the task (we all remember Johnny Mnemonic). Or how about Bill's screenplay for the Alien franchise being made? One of the biggest disappointments I've ever had as a kid was going to a cyberpunk author symposium where Mr. Gibson was supposed to speak. He couldn't make it because of an ear infection. I was completely bummed but got an ever better present: turned on to some other great authors in that genre at a great moment in it's history. Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling (who was saying in the 90's we would be facing a global threat from fundamentalist Islam (check Wired)). Hollywood got freaked out when Cyberpunk didn't work for the big screen at it's first few attempts, but how come they didn't ride the Matrix success further? What we need is a killer screenplay for Neuromancer, or even Snow Crash, another fine novel that would be great for the screen.
    • netant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I definitely think a killer movie still could be made of Neuromancer. And it wouldn't take geniuses to make it. Unfortunately, I think it would require a perfection of execution that is rarely seen in Hollywood.

      The major stumbling block is the screenplay, though I can't understand why. One of the things that really attacted me to the book was how Gibson's writing style was implemented like an action movie. I literally could see the camera angles & cutting while reading it. Part of the problem is that people think of Neuromancer as an incredibly unique story. The story is actually a ripoff of '30's film-noir. If you've seen Chinatown, you've seen Neuromancer. I don't understand why Gibson (or I for that matter) couldn't pop out a winner in a week.

      Unfortunately, I think casting is an even more crucial breaking point for this kind of movie. If Case/Molly is even a touch substandard, its going to make the movie flat as a pancake. The unspoken requirement here is that the audience is going to have to care about the characters. "Unexpounded" yet palpable vulnerability is such a difficult thing to convey in a screen play. You need a Bogart-level actor that's visibly under 30 to be Case (A couple of decades ago, I would have thought Christian Slater to be perfect). Molly's a tough cast too. You can't have a stick figure model, but the actress needs to be smoking hot.

      And of course, you need an top-notch director to make sure both action & acting works. Guys like Tarentino and Rodriguez, come to mind, but they make me nervous; I can see them go on a actionfest ego-tangent, and just ignore the story. The idea of getting either Spike Lee or Richard Linklater would intrigue me. Perhaps even the Coen brothers, just because I think Neuromancer would need a funkiness & comic timing FX is horrifically overrated in importance; FX will not carry a movie like this.
  • Troff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I too have the print copy of this. Not mentioned in this article is that the second chapter EXISTS. Its pages were printed as the "centrefold" in "The Ultimate Cyberpunk", the Cyberpunk anthology edited by Pat Cadigan. Check Amazon. Try http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Cyberpunk-Pat-Cadigan/dp/0743452399 .

    To all the people saying it's not possible to make a movie: it's possible. "Johnny Mnemonic" is proof-of-concept.

    To all the people saying The Matrix is the closest we can get: not even close. The culture is just NOT the same. "Neuromancer" is culturally, sociologically and technologically Cyberpunk. "The Matrix" is post-apocalyptic science-fantasy; no corporations, no politics (what, that disagreement between the Zion council on how to defend against the machines??), no economics and the closest there was to a real "hack" was Trinity running NMap in the power station.

    Apologies and respect... but no. "The Matrix" is not "Neuromancer". And "Neuromancer" the movie could work. The PC game already exists. TWO chapters of the comic adaption exist. The audiobook exists. The PREQUEL short-story AND movie exist. Don't say it can't be done... when it already HAS.
    • Gneisbaard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Johnny mnemonic was a piece of crap though... Especially the ending was super lame!
  • pmclinn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The game for the commodore 64 was great. One of my favorite games ever.
  • braavosi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Man that was a really good book. I loved Gibson up to Idoru but for some reason didn't read any after that. Stephenson was awesome too but the Baroque Cycle sort of bored me. When i get more time i might try again.
    • SushiK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Amen, I love how Gibson weaves history into his stories (See Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash) but man was Baroque Cycle full of the history. I can't keep track of all this British social goings on.
  • TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1*cough* Overrated *cough*

    Go read Snow Crash instead.
  • Rell812, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For some reason the art bothers me. Neuromancer either needs a super realistic or a super stylized art style...the sort of 80's ideal look they gave the characters is kinda lame.

    But I don't know if a Neuromancer movie would work very well. The pace of the book doesn't seem like it would translate very well.

    Snow Crash, however, would make a great movie...mainly because most of the book's length comes from skippable scenes reciting ancient Sumerian myths. We get it, Neal, you drew some parallels, let us get on with the story. Plus, there's plenty of action and goofy stuff.
  • joshuba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2how appropiate for me I'm reading the last few chapters in this book for the first time. sorry I'm not gonna read any comments though there might be spoilers, thanks for the great find +digg
  • xxybermancer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Snow crash was good, IS great, but cannot be compared to Neuromancer and the Sprawl Trilogy, two different things even if they exist in the same kind of genre.

    Johnny Mnemonic is one of my favorite movies. There are some flaw, but every movie has them. The scene, setting, vibe, et al, was still there a'plenty. If only Molly was in it...

    ...Neuromancer the movie could be done. It'd be awesome to see Peter Jackson take it on and do all three of the Sprawl trilogy!
    • neckfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ugh. Johnny Mnemonic is such a horrible rendition of the short story. The story takes place over what...like a half hour? But then they added in all this garbage filler and Henry Rollins and Ice T and made the dolphin a main character and molly a love interest.....barf! (Don't get me wrong I love both Rollins and Ice T- just not in this movie.) Molly (Jane in the movie) Johnny's bodyguard could eviscerate Johnny with a blink of her mirrored eye, in the movie she's his love interest and Johnny is the action hero. All wrong- the film is a piece of rubbish.

      Give me a version of the film where a desperate man is holding an Adidias gym bag containing an antiquated shotgun filled with 2 rounds he machined himself... now thats the moxy :)
  • b0neman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A movie Sprawl Trilogy is a TALL order. Almost every sentence that Gibson writes is a novel in and of itself. There is enough "action" to merit "scenes" and a story but the underlying themes of addiction and violence would have to be toned down a bit for mainstream audiences. Case's desire to escape the "meat" and all his attempts to score drugs might not be given a sympathetic treatment. I'd still like to see Armitrage and Molly in action though. A few hundred fleshette rounds through an army of JoeBoys would make Kill Bill look like a Mr. Rogers episode. There's another problem. The scads and scads of violence throughout the series might overwhelm the messages of hope for the future that underly Gibson's writings. Whoever takes this on will have to assemble quite the awesome writing team. The cyberspace scenes and the action scenes will be a walk in the park. Molly will have to act through her glasses and they'll have to keep Case from being misunderstood somehow.

    See you in line at the premiere!
    • popfrogs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just cast Steve Buscemi as Case and the chick from the Matrix as Molly. Armitage and all the supporting characters don't matter so much..but you can totally see Buscemi as some drug-addicted loser with an exceptional gift.
    • netant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
      Noooo way Steven Buschemi; waaaay too old. (He could play a representation of Flatline Dixie.) And whatsherface? (Carrie Ann Moss?) Nope, too old and not enough magnetism at this point.
    • netant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
      A current actress might be Charlize Theron (if you've seen Monster and Aeon Flux). But I don't think she's good enough an actress to pull it off, and Molly is SO not a blonde...

      The ideal Molly would have to have the dimensions like Jennifer Garner, but a WAY better actress.
  • xinit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I took most of these images from many different internet resources without crediting them, so if I am violating your copyright, please contact me so I can remove or credit the respective images."

    Asking the people who scanned and posted copyright bearing images to identify themselves so that he can credit THEM for their hard work in posting copyright images?
  • DaveV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have the Graphic Novel. I just wish they had come out with the rest of it.
  • scottjl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i actually have a few copies of this in my archives somewhere. they never continued with the rest of the book though. :(
  • jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This pic is cool, but who the hell is Chase?

    http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gallery/neuromancer-graphicnovel/page-05.JPG
  • Elohssa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually read a physical copy they held at one of the libraries at Ohio State University. It was disappointing for me in that it wasn't a complete telling of the story. And yes, the artwork was not what I imagined, since they made Molly look like a bull dyke biker. As far as a movie goes, I feel that it could be done, but would suffer from the same problems as all movie adaptations. It would also take a very steady hand to capture the feel of Gibson's world.

    I don't think a movie is likely, as the rights were sold off before Gibson started making money to some operation called the Cabana Boys. I've read that is why Molly did not appear in Johnny Mneumonic, not that even a perfect rendition of her could have saved that crap carnival.
  • angusm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gibson and movies seem like a natural fit, but somehow it never seems to have happened. "Neuromancer", which ought to be a natural, was kicked around forever and then never made. "Johnny Mnemonic" was atrocious (although as one reviewer commented, seeing Keanu Reeves running around shouting "There's something wrong with my brain" at least made up a little for the disappointment). "New Rose Hotel" sank without trace. Even Gibson's script for "Alien 3", which is arguably no worse than what they ended up filming, was shelved (the script is available on a few websites).

    I still think that "Neuromancer" could and should be filmed. Contrary to what some people have written, I think the balance between live action and the Matrix sequences is good enough that audiences won't get bored by polygons, and while other films have covered similar ground, the story is coherent and tightly-plotted enough that it should hold up. I think the fact that it hasn't been made is down to lack of vision on the part of whoever's currently squatting on the movie rights, rather than any inherent problems with the work.
  • fallen1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I own a copy of this - in english. It was actually pretty good and I would have loved to see the rest of it done. Didn't realize how rare it was, even though I knew they never finished it. That being said, with enough attention to it maybe it would get finished.... Nah, probably not :-p Still a good graphic look at the novel.
  • JamesWyatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dude!! My Copy is still in it's Hermetically Sealed Bag!
    The Game was Da Bomb!
    Neuromancer & "Zak McKracken & the Alien Mindbenders" were/are my Favorite Games!

    I have a Binder just for Neuro.

    I have my PAX Verification Code Wheel from Interplay.
    Chatsubo - Gentleman Loser - Asano Computing = 031776
    Man I hated this Copy Protection Crap!

    OK you Icebreaking Cowboys.. It's Christmas time!!!

    Neuromancer - The PC Game. (I found it in a Dusty Software Store) Graphics are pale compared to the Commodore 64 version, but playable..

    LINK: http://www.sendspace.com/file/e62jdo

    I've included a couple of Hints & Walkthru Guides to help you along, The Manual, PAX Verification Code Wheel Cheat (Don't Need), & Reference Card.

    All yours for the Low Low Price "Damn, I sound like Crazy Edo" of Zip-Zero-Nada... All nicely wrapped up into a SFX file.

    http://photo.ringo.com/196/196402022O815356707.jpg


  • SpectreBlofeld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I feel that a Neuromancer flick would be done best as an anime.

    The Ghost in the Shell movies and Stand Alone Complex series have come as close as anything I've seen to capturing Gibson's cyberpunk vision; however, GitS is from the perspective of law enforcement. Almost all of Gibson's stories are told from 'street level,' which would have more of an Akira feel...
  • astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Some things never change
    Hang your head
    I saw the news today o boy
    Some Things Never Change
    Some Things Never Change
    -Devo ("Somethings Never Change (Cassette Version)")
  • MisterSolidus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If they were to make a film, it'd be for the fans, not just for the general public. So keeping the polygonal matrix wouldn't be too dumb of an idea I think.
  • calLsOLoIsNOob, on 11/21/2007, -0/+0Why can't I see the comments :S
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