https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j3-HOoeksM
What do you think of this Neuromancer fan film?
Does it capture how you imagine the characters looking?
Does it have the look and sound you had in mind for the cyberpunk story?
Will the Apple series be better or does this fan effort surpass it?

>>211940485 (OP)
its one of my favorite books
im kinda scared that theyll try to adapt it into some hollywood dumpster fire and ruin it's legacy like they did to with the woke LoTR

not sure about that Molly Millions

>doesn't open with a shot of the sky the color of television tuned to a dead channel
Who cares.

>>211941028
>im kinda scared that theyll try to adapt it into some hollywood dumpster fire and ruin it's legacy like they did to with the woke LoTR

uh, anon

>>211942734

>>211943274
are they doing it?
im also scared of them ruining snow crash

im actually readong william gibson's later books im at spook country rn. his later stuff is more adaptable but less 'evergreen' it very much captures the mood of the time it was written in where's the 'mood' of neuromancer is fairly unique and in my opinion timeless.

>>211940485 (OP)
Just watch Johnny neumonic

>>211943429
Oh lawdy dem AI's

>>211943519
I love the Sprawl trilogy and I love the Bridge trilogy, which oddly enough in spite of also being cyberpunk books feel more grounded and closer to present tech (for instance nobody goes into space).
None of his later work gripped me.

Also I know everything is incestuous and rips off ideas and vibes from everything else but holy fuck James Cameron's Dark Angel was literally just the Bridge trilogy + his furfag autism added in

>>211940485 (OP)
>>Chris Cunningham
If he's not involved then it's shit by default.

>>211943429
the "millions" refers to how much welfare she has received

>>211943519
Neuromancer is going to be an Apple TV show
Apple TV has made that their niche, taking "unfilmable" books and spending a quarter billion dollars at a time making forgettable postmodern slop that no one will ever watch

I know enough genre fiction to know this should be the biggest thing ever, that it was met with reverent whispers for decades, and instead it's just infinite nothing, like if somebody made a shitty overwrought tv show based on lord of the rings

>>211944165
>like if somebody made a shitty overwrought tv show based on lord of the rings

>>211944121
>>211943924
>>211943429
Hey don't judge prior pics of the actress, wait until they get her in costuAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>211943429
>he never finds out what color molly's eyes are
Doesn't really have any weight now does it

>>211944282
For me it's the various chapters describing how pale she is and the one literally describing how pink her fucking nipples are

>>211944262
>what if halle berry was a troon
i'm glad science fiction helps us answer these questions

>>211944328
>>211944282
How do you express displeasure at this without freaking out normies?

>>211944073
funnily enough i started watching it while reading all tommorow's parties. im still stuck somewhere in season 2 where it gets kinda boring.

max is basically chavette (bicycle message living in a shared run down apartment in semi-homelessness in a west coast US city) mixed with a little of laney (experimented on as a kid to get mental superpowers with various side effects)

a lot of episodes had very strong bridge trilogy vibes. but it starts off amazing and the quality gradually goes down it just feels like theyre running out of ideas.
>>211944165
fuck
i hope they dont do snow crash at least

>>211944165
It actually feels like a sort of achievement to make a big budget Asimov adaptation and have nobody care. They could do Blood Meridian next.

>>211944262
holy shit she looks retarded

>>211944418
also if anyone in this world should have been given the shot at a neuromancer adaptation its either the people who made this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yt89b5AcwY
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5YUmkWf_Y

>>211944615
god Altered Carbon was so fucking good
like it made Netflix angry that they made something that good and they called experts in to fix it immediately

I know it utterly dishonored the books but I loved it because it honored cyberpunk itself, it was just a tall handsome sad guy wandering around rainy neon shooting degenerates and fucking bitches, it was like if somebody made a whole series out of a Blade Runner 2049 tribute AMV

Also out of all the villains who did literally nothing wrong nobody ever did less wrong than her, she was literally the greatest hero in the universe and we're supposed to hate her just because she wants to fuck her own brother

>>211943195
my zoomer kids wouldn't even know what that means

>>211944402
In my experience, lots of normies are aware of it but their attitude is something like "of course they gotta have token diversity! LOL!", as in they know it's forced but don't take it seriously enough to be bothered. Then there's the kool aid drinkers who think of it like real social progress and will never see reason. Lots of boomers seem to be this way for some reason, my own theory is that they like to think their generation "solved" racism so criticizing diversity casting is on par with saying a black man shouldn't be president. Anyway, just pick your battles and know your audience.

>>211944752
i feel like it's a double edged sword in terms of running a show since on one hand you can switch out actors all you want and have a good excuse (different sleeves). on the other hand its hard for different actors to convincingly play the same character. s1 takashi and s2 takashi dont feel like the same dude which is probably why it died in s2

>>211944752
reileen does plenty of evil shit but was an amazing villain

>>211944752
>like it made Netflix angry that they made something that good and they called experts in to fix it immediately
Season 1 was great. It completely shit the bed after that.

>>211940485 (OP)
This woman's acting was terrible.

>>211944964
It's somehow even worse when the author is a diversity minded shitlib to begin with yet this is never good enough for the adaptation

Like how GRRM went out of his way to write an entire continent of cool magic black people and an entire other continent of rich powerful arab people and even set half the fucking story in arab land and somehow people still went "Why the FUCK isn't everyone in Winterfell black?"

Looking at the casting of this Neuromancer shitheap, they've got some nobody bong model as Case (might be good), Dane Dehaan as Rivera (actually terrific pick for the sleaziest creep in the universe), the French chick from Harry Potter as 3Jane (not bad at all), Mark Strong as Armitage (absolutely fucking based jesus that's like the one dream casting they pulled out of this)
They turned Deane from an old British guy into a Morgan Freeman impersonator. Fair enough, he's a minor character anyway, and his primary attributes are being old as shit and a jerk.
Why'd Molly have to be black?
I'm not seeing Malcolm in the cast. Don't tell me they cut the Jamaican guy from the original novel whose whole characterization was that he was the only crew member who was a flat-out good person, just tough and loyal (there's William Gibson being a good 80s progressive for you), but they had to make Molly fucking Millions black.

>>211944861
Sure they would, grandpa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxe7tYFEeTI

>>211940485 (OP)
the acting is shit but i like the aesthetic. theyre making the mistake of sticking too close to the book.

also in my mind the coffin hotels were windowless and a lot more cramped than that. and i always imagined molly's eyes like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yaFqM_v1JM
and not this ugly shit in the short film. maybe more like >>211942734
or some of the chicks from cyberpunk 2077

>>211944073
>for instance nobody goes into space
we lost that technology and its a painfuk process to get it back

>>211940485 (OP)
garbage

>>211944752
>god Altered Carbon was so fucking good
No, it wasn't.
The dude can't act and the Poe android and his poker buddies fucking killed it for me very soon.

>>211944262
Neo, what if I told you that the red and blue pills are lies constructed by the Matrix and pills really exist in an infinite spectrum of colors depending on how they feel at any given moment?

>>211949692
we had people in orbit pretty much continuously for 40 years now. starting pretty much right after necromancer was written. the bridge trilogy is just very locale-focused on places william gibson has been in in person so he doesnt mention any space stuff.

he heavily incorporates the current buzzword tech into his books like virtual light is heavily based on 80s vr and 1990s popsci promises of how nanotechnology would evolve. idoru is inspired by early voice synthesizers imo and what would later become vocaloids.

the third trilogy im reading now has web forums, computer spyware,ECHELON surveillance program, and steganography as major motifs in the first book (pattern recognition) and i just started the second one but it appears to heavily feature electronic bugging,GPS,VR, 3d modeling and sampling irl stuff for vr... he also uses characters in the novel to make 'metacommentry' about his earlier books like he talks about the internet,vr,the gps grid are kind of like what he envisioned as 'cyberspace' earlier.