Just as Raymond Chandler did not invent the hard-boiled detective novel, William Gibson did not invent cyberpunk. Neuromancer is a brilliant novel, one of my favorites, and by my lights, the book that rearranged science fiction. I know I sound like the eternal fanboy when I say this, but, “This time it might be real.” Apple TV+ may not be the leading force in streaming entertainment today, but it’s established a track record of producing high-quality material and taking some risks along the way. The truly big news is that Neuromancer has a reasonable chance of being adapted to the screen. The big question Illuminerdi concerns itself with is which actor will play protagonist Case, a drug-abusing hacker hired to pull off a virtual heist in cyberspace. The Illuminerdi ( via) reports Apple TV+ is tooling up to produce a streaming adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk masterpiece Neuromancer.
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