Sierra Tango Foxtrot Uniform ([info]uhlume) wrote,
@ 2008-01-19 00:05:00
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...Oh, fuck, no.

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[info]emmiepie
2008-01-19 08:09 am UTC (link)
oh noes.

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[info]insektmute
2008-01-19 12:46 pm UTC (link)
Sad as I am to see it show up, it had to happen one day. In fact, wasn't there a website for a supposedly "in production" Neuromancer movie that popped up several years ago?

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 10:57 pm UTC (link)
I'm sure one studio or another has owned the rights for years. And I'd love to see Neuromancer turned into a movie at the competent hands of, say, a Danny Boyle or a Spike Jonze — Gibson's worlds are so richly described that they almost beg for cinematic treatment, though I suspect some of his stories are effectively unfilmable. (Not SFX-wise, but because some of them are just too...static...to survive translation to the dynamic world of cinema intact.)

Sadly, it seems almost destined never to happen with any of his works: the closest I've seen anyone come to authentic Gibson on screen was New Rose Hotel, and for various reasons — including, I think, the subject of my parenthetical musing above — it was almost a complete failure as a film.

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 11:14 pm UTC (link)
This actually looks somewhat promising (in that Peter Weir has considerable directorial chops — hard to judge from the cast, yet). Sadly, it's entirely too easy to see it going the way of New Rose Hotel — that one looked good on paper, too.

Edited at 2008-01-19 11:18 pm UTC

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-20 06:45 am UTC (link)
And, according to an entry in Gibson's blog from last year, this one's dead in the water anyway.

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[info]insektmute
2008-01-20 12:34 am UTC (link)
That about sums it up. I saw New Rose Hotel years ago and it was pretty bland. Better than Johnny Mnemonic, but that's not saying much.

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[info]minwee
2008-01-19 02:49 pm UTC (link)
Hayden Christensen?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Well, at least Uwe Boll isn't involved. That's something. Maybe he'll just make a movie based on the game based on the movie based on the book.

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[info]kweerious
2008-01-19 05:44 pm UTC (link)
WTF! Not the twerp who ruined my childhood! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

do not want.

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 11:23 pm UTC (link)
As much as I'd love to lay that at the feet of Hayden Christenson, there are so many who deserve that blame so much more fully — beginning with George Lucas not knowing when to leave well enough alone. The original trilogy was beginning to wear pretty thin as it was.

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[info]kweerious
2008-01-20 07:22 am UTC (link)
George Lucas is dead to me.

Putting the twerp in at the end with Yoda and Obi-wan sealed the deal.

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Seriously, what is it about William Gibson film properties that attracts the attentions of no-talent child actors and even more talentless music video directors?

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[info]sispille
2008-01-19 05:11 pm UTC (link)
the dir is a video guy. did some spears stuff. this bodes ill.

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 10:30 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, and judging from that and the rest of his filmography, we're not exactly talking Spike Jonze, here. (Who, now I think of it, if anyone could pull off Neuromancer, might be somewhere on the short list.)

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[info]sispille
2008-01-19 10:43 pm UTC (link)
my short list includes:

chirstopher nolan (think: memento)
david cronenberg (think: videodrome, existenz)
ridley scott (think: bladerunner)
brad anderson (think: session 9, the machinist)

someone like david lynch, but not so...lynch-y.

that's a short list. i need to see more films.

and charlie kaufman adapts.

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 11:04 pm UTC (link)
I think Danny Boyle pretty much tops my list, as mentioned above. (Imagine Neuromancer filtered through a pastiche of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Sunshine.)

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[info]insektmute
2008-01-20 12:38 am UTC (link)
I cast my vote for Nimrod Antal. Kontroll might be set in the present, but the whole film damn near feels like it's set in the Sprawl.

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[info]sola
2008-01-19 05:52 pm UTC (link)
*gasp*


*gasp*
*gasp*
*gasp*
*gasp*
*gasp*
*gasp*


... I'll cry if they do it.

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 11:05 pm UTC (link)
I'll fiercely ignore it if (sorry, when) they do it.

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[info]pele_incognita
2008-01-19 10:16 pm UTC (link)
I can make you even more sick: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0962728/

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[info]uhlume
2008-01-19 11:07 pm UTC (link)
...Yeah. That just doesn't do it.

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[info]m4dh4tt3r
2008-01-20 01:17 am UTC (link)
ugh.

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[info]phogg
2008-02-14 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Unrelated:
You just got a new issue of "The Beast" in the mail.
Normally, I wouldn't make a special point of mentioning it... I'd just collect your mail and give it to you next time I saw you, but this time I noticed that it included an article on why Republicans should vote for Ron Paul. Color me shocked.
Anyhow... it's here.
Happy Valentine's Day!

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