Neuromancer

[Little Foot]

So I'm reading Neuromancer right now, and it's really quite good. However, a quick Wikipedia search revealed that there is not a single film adaptation of it yet. This is really shocking, since it is written rather cinematically, and is the progenitor of the cyberpunk genre, and it is clearly within the bounds of the sci-fi noir style. It's basically like combining The Matrix and Blade Runner. I can't see why this has yet to make it to the big screen.
The Wikipedia article also mentioned, however, that there is supposedly a Neuromancer movie currently in development. Does anyone have information on this project? Is this at all realistic?

 

[Maximus One]

If you like Neuromancer check out Accelerando by Charles Stross freaking amazing book

 

[Little Foot]

What's that about?

 

[Maximus One]

man honestly its a little hard to describe the short version would be it spans like 50 or somethin years and 3 generations of this family in the future where artificial intelligence is every where and everyone is hooked up to the net. Its really good but its wrote in a really wierd way and its kinda hard to follow but its still a great read.

 

[Little Foot]

In what way is it "really weird?"

 

[Paroxysm]

Splice director Vincenzo Natali says he just finished his first draft of his adaptation of William Gibson's novel, and he says he's optimistic the success of Inception will make studio heads more confident the film can actually be made. He explained how he wants to depict cyberspace:

The cyberspace element of it would be a completely abstract universe. So it will be the opposite of The Matrix. Except for some very discreet scenes we are not in a world that looks like our own. It's the opposite. In fact, that serves the whole point, that the main character, Case, is what they call a Console Jockey, kind of a hacker, who in a sense, downloads his consciousness into this digital universe, and that's where he's happiest.

That's what makes the book so resonant and fascinating and timeless in a sense, in that Case is really enamoured with the immaterial world. He hates what he calls the Meat, his own flesh, his own body, and in the real universe, the last thing he'd want to do is go into a perfect duplicated version of the real world. All he wants to do is escape from our world.

He enters what was coined the ‘Matrix' but what was actually blatantly lifted by the Wachowski Brothers — so I'm calling it something else — but essentially he goes into this other alternative universe which a kind of platonic universe, where everything is pure and clean and beautiful. So that would be very much a digital construct in the film.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/10/05/bleeding-cool-chats-with-splice-director-vincenzo-natali/