![]() ![]() (A film of Neuromancer itself has been in development hell for decades. To date, Gibson’s novels and short stories have been only sparsely adapted, and never to much success. This goes double for the works of William Gibson, one of the most celebrated and influential figures in cyberpunk who codified the genre in his 1984 novel, Neuromancer. And yet, save for the world-shaking success of The Matrix (1999) and the fairly one-note anthology series Black Mirror, most attempts by Hollywood to translate cyberpunk ideas and aesthetic to the screen have been either commercial or critical failures, if not both. ![]() ![]() As technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives, cyberpunk-the sci-fi subgenre that’s been preoccupied with the seemingly inevitable singularity of flesh and machine since before we had a term for it-remains our present’s most relevant branch of speculative fiction. ![]()
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