This is a bit exciting. Apple has bought the rights to William Gibson’s foundational cyberpunk novel and shooting is scheduled for 2023. Apparently, they’re after Miles Teller, one of the Top Gun Maverick guys, to play Case, the drug-addicted anti-hero hacker, and they’re looking for a next-gen Carrie Anne Moss analogue to play Molly, Case’s gun-toting mercenary off-sider. Whoever gets that gig will step into Case’s shoes for seasons two and three because Teller is only willing to do a one-season shoot.
I’m cool with all of it. In fact, I’m so stoked I might go back and read the book again. It’s been years, but I still remember that first par:
There is a comment that it has gone through two different plausible meanings before finally becoming meaningless.
Early digital TVs went blue when tuned to a channel that wasn't broadcasting; current ones go black, but modern youft don't really have a concept of channels, or indeed TVs.
Don't forget that Neuromancer was written (published) in 1984: digital broadcast wasn't yet a thing, so the "colour of television tuned to a dead channel" would have been analog amplified noise, possibly with echoes of nearby channels: the greyish shifting pattern that is sometimes shown in movies.
Perhaps even the not-so youft miss the allusion too.
sad emoji face. Apple TV is not on my list of streaming services. I can only hope that if they make it it turns out like Cowboy Beebop (actually i don't wish that on anyone, even out of jealousy)
Fingers crossed as it was a story I enjoyed reading, but as I am sure many can point out its a long way from buy the rights to see the production on screen.
Also, my memory of Neuromancer is that the surface detail was gorgeous, but the plot was close to impenetrably obscure. Not sure that it could make any sense as a TV show.
the complete disconnect of how 'cyberspace' works in the story and how it works 'in real life' may lend itself more to metaphor and fantasy in the TV series which the obscure plot may work in its favour.
The youft will miss that allusion, having never encountered a TV that involved "tuning". Not the same thing as selecting the appropriate app...
I've always wondered if it wasn't a sly reference to TS Elliot's The Lovesong of J Alfred Prurock:
"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table"
There is a comment that it has gone through two different plausible meanings before finally becoming meaningless.
Early digital TVs went blue when tuned to a channel that wasn't broadcasting; current ones go black, but modern youft don't really have a concept of channels, or indeed TVs.
Don't forget that Neuromancer was written (published) in 1984: digital broadcast wasn't yet a thing, so the "colour of television tuned to a dead channel" would have been analog amplified noise, possibly with echoes of nearby channels: the greyish shifting pattern that is sometimes shown in movies.
Perhaps even the not-so youft miss the allusion too.
Sorry, I meant "two different plausible *alternative* meanings". Bad English; I know what the original meaning was.
I think Gibson also wrote the Peripheral. The series on Amazon . A lot of fun so far. Chloe Grace Moretz is great.
Indeed. I'm quite amazed at how well it's working. Almost perfectly cast, I think. Moretz is just about exactly as I had imagined Flyn.
We will see. They fucked up Altered Carbon, so Im not hopeful -but you never know I guess
sad emoji face. Apple TV is not on my list of streaming services. I can only hope that if they make it it turns out like Cowboy Beebop (actually i don't wish that on anyone, even out of jealousy)
Squeeeeeeee.
So excited.
Fingers crossed as it was a story I enjoyed reading, but as I am sure many can point out its a long way from buy the rights to see the production on screen.
Yeah. The caution in my optimism stems mainly from Johnny Mnemonic...
Also, my memory of Neuromancer is that the surface detail was gorgeous, but the plot was close to impenetrably obscure. Not sure that it could make any sense as a TV show.
the complete disconnect of how 'cyberspace' works in the story and how it works 'in real life' may lend itself more to metaphor and fantasy in the TV series which the obscure plot may work in its favour.
That's fair