Neuromancer Teaser Poster Emerges in Cyberspace

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 1st, 2008

William Gibson set the literary world on its ear with his 1984 novel, Neuromancer.  Now hailed as the first cypberpunk novel, Hollywood seems to have finally caught up with the trend and the long-gestating film version seems finally to be gaining some steam.  A teaser poster was posted over at Quiet Earth.

Gibson’s novel initially won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards upon its release and more recently was named to Time Magazine’s top 100 best English-language books since the magazine was founded in 1923.

The Wikipedia page describes the novel as “the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack. Gibson explores artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state long before these ideas entered popular culture. The concept of cyberspace makes its first appearance, with Gibson inventing the word to describe ‘a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions.’”

There have been audio and stage adaptations of the work but it has eluded feature films despite numerous attempts.  At one point, Chris Cunningham was attempting a movie and earned praise from Gibson as the best director for the adaptation.

Cunningham’s version failed but in May 2007, Joseph Kahn (Torque) was named as director with Hayden Christensen (Jumper) set to star.