Goddamnit! All I wanted is a quiet life for a few years; and now they're making a biopic about me? They didn't even reach out to my team to gather details. I guarantee they'll probably get my shell and font preferences wrong.

While I'm interested to see how they adapt Neuromancer to the screen, I get a sense that the author of the article never read the book nor took the time to understand Neuromancer's place in culture.

It will need to be very, very different from the book unless they go retro-futurist. Like Foundation, as they mentioned.

I hope it fairs better than Gibson's other adaption, The Peripheral. Like many things I liked, cancelled after one season.

My favourite book finally has its TV show made.

I won't get my hopes up.

What the actual fuck.

The kind of person who came up with it has no understanding or appreciation of the genre or the concepts involved. There is no conceptual thread to unify that book and the movie franchise.

Wait, wait what if we combined “the odyssey and … the bible!” Wat. “No no, it makes sense. If you ignore everything both books are about, the textural uniqueness and the every concept each of them contains!”

The article is the most blatant AI slop I’ve ever seen. Neuromancer is iconic in a way that needs no clumsy metaphor or equivocating awkward comparison.

It’s like reading a biography of George Washington and the “author” keeps reaching for ways to explain his traits saying things like, “He was known primarily for his love of cherries, so much so that he chopped down a tree of them. Very similar to the more well known Honest Abe Lincoln who would chop down trees due to his love of cabin building. This is the most important fact about these two men that I found mentioned online.”

I feel less educated for having read it.

Calling the Neuromancer like that is an abomination and shows total ignorance about Gibson being the OG of the genre.

As Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K. Dick than to his sprawl trilogy.

...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.

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