Today, should you’re an epic sci-fi story seeking to be informed, there’s only one destination: Apple TV+. From standard novels like Basis and Silo to originals like For All Mankind and Severance, the streamer is a haven for bizarre, daring sci-fi. Which is why it looks like the proper, pure house for William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
The landmark 1984 cyberpunk novel has been on Hollywood’s wishlist for many years, with multiple filmmakers attempting to bring it to the massive display. Now, it’s coming to a smaller display, however in an extended format. Graham Roland (Darkish Winds) and J.D. Dillard (Devotion) have teamed as much as adapt the novel for Apple TV+, which has given them a 10-episode collection order.
“We’re extremely excited to be bringing this iconic property to Apple TV+,” Roland and Dillard said in a statement. “Since we grew to become mates almost 10 years in the past, we’ve appeared for one thing to workforce up on, so this collaboration marks a dream come true. Neuromancer has impressed a lot of the science fiction that’s come after it and we’re wanting ahead to bringing tv audiences into Gibson’s definitive ‘cyberpunk’ world.”
That world follows a futuristic hacker on a secret mission towards a sophisticated synthetic intelligence. Which, admittedly, sounds sort of acquainted, however that’s as a result of, as Roland and Dillard mentioned, the novel was so influential. Plus, Gibson adopted it up with two sequels—Depend Zero in 1986 and Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988— so this might go on for longer than only a season.
It’s a pair that feels completely up for the problem, too. Along with creating Darkish Winds, Roland was a author on Misplaced and a writer-producer on Fringe. Dillard has written and directed a number of options, together with the criminally underrated style movies Sleight and Sweetheart. They’ll each produce the collection with Roland showrunning and Dillard directing at the least the pilot.
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