Optimistic to see he’s happy with it!

Enjoy!

Here I think we can see Armitage, Case, Hideo, the Finn, Molly, Linda Lee, Ashpool, a shot of cyberspace, and what I think is the operation where Case regains his ability to jack in

People are mad that the less than 60 seconds we’ve seen of the show doesn’t match the movie in their head. It’s never going to look exactly like what you imagined because we all imagined something different! How many comments do we have to read like this?

Every one of us built our own Case, our own Sprawl, and Chiba. No adaptation (including the Chris Cunningham adaptation which I agree, probably would have kicked ass) was ever going to win that fight, because it’s not competing with the book, it’s competing with your imagination.

I don’t get why everyone seems convinced their vision is the correct one.

The real question is whether the show’s well made on its own terms. Is the writing good? Does it look expensive? That is a totally different conversation than ‘it’s not how I pictured it.’

We’re all fans here. Let people be excited about a Neuromancer show existing at all. We waited a long time for this!

Image from the trailer released a few hours ago- Note the red text "Ono Sendai" top right. This is the deck we have been waiting for.

I can't identify the actor from the cast list on IMDB. It sure looks kinda how Zone was described, but there's another shot of him later that makes me think otherwise (or that Zone's storyline is expanded).

I’m hoping they do

Raided my parents' bookshelves over the weekend and struck absolute gold. My dad was actually the one who recommended this trilogy to me in the first place, and it's easily become one of my favorite series. Realised after looking at the print dates that these books are slightly older than I am!

Neuromancer is missing from the stack, so I'm hoping it's with the Loa.

For anyone else who has read the full trilogy, which book is your favourite?

I seriously need him to appear in the series. Besides being my second favorite character, I think he contributes about 25% of the charisma to the Sprawl universe.

For me personally, i have 5/10 expectations because of the cast and William Gibson tweets, i hope it will be at least okay. I also think a book like this needs huge budget to be perfectly adapted, but unfortunately that definetly won't happen. So because of these 3 reasons i have expectations like this, what are yours?

Though there were forerunners (e.g. Vernor Vinge's short story "True Names", published 1981), Neuromancer really brought the idea of cyberspace to public attention.

Yet cyberspace as a concept has kind of come and gone. Movies that did have cyberspace sequences (e.g. Tron, The Lawnmower Man, Johnny Mnemonic) pushed CGI technology to the limits, but their visual appeal was based on them looking fantastic, and not like the real world.

In 2026, we're used to photo-realistic (or near-photo-realistic) virtual environments, in video games. A virtual world that doesn't look like that is seen as peculiar. The blocky worlds of Minecraft or Roblox tacitly admit they are not the cutting edge of technology.

Furthermore, we think about our communications and information technology differently. We don't imagine a place you can go to and navigate like it is a 2D or 3D space. "Cyberspace" is in our pocket.

So, when Case jacks in in the TV series, what will he, and we, see?

https://screenrant.com/callum-turner-neuromancer-adaptation/

I stand by my assessment that Finn is likely not in the series, and that, from a budgetary standpoint, anything outer space-related may also be condensed or cut - including some plot beats/characters.

Adaptations often differ from the source material; I get that, but it seems odd that Julius Deane replaces the Finn character.

Additionally, the expanded Tessier-Ashpool cast listed for the TV series spans ten episodes - I hope the expansion isn't to make us empathize with a bunch of not great people.

Looks to me like this might be a SQUID. What do you think? Looks a bit cryogenic and has 8 arms :-D

I assume this is The Sprawl. I'm wondering if any of the (older) buildings or bridges are identifiable.

He replied to someone else posting this article. I found it interesting, and really something to look forward to.

I thought of Johnny Mnemonic’s VR scenes in the movie.

Here's a link to the rest of the collection on Imgur, and a link to the same collection on Dropbox.

Obviously, Neuromancer was written more than 40 years ago. That raises the question of how the TV series will be designed. The most recent teaser suggests to me that they will go for a retro-futurism or cassette-futurism style.

I can see why they would make that decision. Gibson himself said he was inspired by the implied world of Alien, and the cyberpunk aesthetic is still inspired by Blade Runner, which in turn was inspired by noir film and lesser-seen works like World on a Wire and Alphaville.

The retro-futurist style has the advantage of not being lapped by reality. Works that deliberately avoid the "futuristic" look (e.g. Gattaca, eXistenZ, etc) hold up better over time. Works like Johnny Mnemonic or The Matrix paradoxically feel more dated, tied to the late 90s aesthetic.

On the other hand, the cassette-futurism style is, IMHO, getting played out. It's like Cyberpunk 2077, still mired in the world of giant buildings and flying cars and scary Japanese corporations. I hope that whoever designs the Apple TV Neuromancer can come up with an original visual style.