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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 4:42 pm |
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I doubt this movie will actually be made, but I didn't see anyone posting this news already so I figured I'd add it. This comes from Variety so it's a reliable source, and apparently it's being fast-tracked because Milla Jovovich is pregnant, so maybe it actually will happen.
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=Cannes2007&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117965272&cs=1
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William Gibson's prescient sci-fi bestseller from the '80s, "Neuromancer," will get the bigscreen treatment from vet producer-distributor Peter Hoffman, whose own Cannes exploits go back some 25 years.
Hoffman said the project is not just a good sci-fi adventure but a story full of hot topics --issues like artificial intelligence, bio-engineering and alternate theories of immortality will be dealt with dramatically. There'll be a sort of love interest as well.
The $70 million pic is essentially being fast-tracked to replace the Paul Verhoeven project "The Winter Queen." Latter is being pushed back until at least next spring because leading lady Milla Jovovich is pregnant.
Joseph Kahn, a Korean-American commercials director who made "Torque" for Warren Bros., has inked to direct.
"Every indie wants to have one or two high-budgeted pics in its portfolio. For us, both the Verhoeven and 'Neuromancer' fit that description," Hoffman said.
Hoffman's company Seven Arts, which will as of next week have a public listing in London, had no formal announcement for the project. The producer-distributor's modus operandi these days is much more low-key and press-neutral, if not press-shy. (The swashbuckling days of Carolco and co. in the '80s are long gone.)
Still, Hoffman is doing business from his umpteenth yacht (he's had them since 1989) and says he continues to have regular relationships in foreign with all the key buyers.
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:27 pm |
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With what I know from the Hollywood system, this sort of thing makes it very likely it'll get made. Films need to be produced for studios and production companies to make money and if a big name producer is behind it and it fits scheduling than it's all the more likely. Keepin' my fingers crossed that it gets made, and also that it's decent.
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:40 pm |
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If it *Is* made, then do you think its best for the movie to stay true to the novel? Or should it be updaded with the considerations of modern technology?
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 10:06 pm |
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I hope this is for real and will be done. I hate to think of this being a fake-out, or a project that dies mid-production. I want to see this movie when (or if) it comes out.
As for the updating, much of the book's "future tech" is now modern tech, so any such updates may not alter it much.
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 11:02 pm |
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Yeah, can't see it being needed to be updated. Additionally since it's being made by and independent they should try to stick to the story more, but at the same time they'll probably have a more limited budget and things might get changed out of monetary necessity.
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:07 am |
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I only hope it's decent.
And that it doesn't start with the sprawl's night sky, please, I'd hate to see my fantasies of "sky as a dead channel" shattered by someone's else illusions of the same D:
Like LOTR, god how I cried when I saw the character's faces 
(Not rly.)
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:30 am |
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I hope they leave the tech the way it was...I'd be dissappointed if they changed it to incorporate modern trends etc...
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:21 am |
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I was thinking along the lines of adding more wireless internet or something subtle. Nothing really overpowering to the plot.
How do you think politics could be handled if they were to follow through with the whole sprawl trilogy? Note that I'm still reading neuromancer so i havent read the trilogy. I know they have a slight focus on Russia and the soviets but thats a dead age now.
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:50 am |
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I don't think it should be adapted. Part of what makes cyberpunk what it is, is the fact that the Soviet bloc remained strong and a powerful force.
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:57 am |
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| Ghostface wrote: | I was thinking along the lines of adding more wireless internet or something subtle. Nothing really overpowering to the plot.
How do you think politics could be handled if they were to follow through with the whole sprawl trilogy? Note that I'm still reading neuromancer so i havent read the trilogy. I know they have a slight focus on Russia and the soviets but thats a dead age now. |
personally I'd say even leave out wireless. If you try to update the tech so that everything is at least modern, it will age even faster. And then there's the "what do we keep and what do we change" arguments.
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:12 pm |
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Additionally, I'd argue that cyberpunk isn't about the tech, it's about the social ripples caused by it and the social interaction unlike some hard classic Science Fiction. It's not important that the tech be updated because the focus of the novel isn't on how fast Case's internet connection is.
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:22 pm |
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I have not read the book (this is not for lack of trying - Gibson's writing style doesn't match the way my brain works - I tried reading it several times and I can't get past the first couple pages) - so I can't comment on what technology is in it.
IMHO they need to upgrade any technology to at least today's standards. If they do make this into a movie, and Case logs onto the net and I hear the sounds of a dial-up modem connecting, I would probably bust out laughing in the theater - and the whole immersion of the movie would be destroyed.
I would not want them to mess with the story and make things unrecognizable from the book (that would be unfair to those who have read it), but subtle changes just to keep up with the times would be needed.
And yes, please make the damn movie! Now!!
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:10 pm |
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I read the Neuromancer novel ages ago, and just ordered it together with Count Zero from a netshop because I lost the old book I had.
Anyhow, concerning the update of tech, i agree, that it would be needed to make the movie a bit believable. But I would not change to anything of the plot or so. Do they have a big budget to make this movie, or is it going to be made by a low-medium budget corporation ? As for BladeRunner, their Budget was very huge to spend. And as many know, it shows in their special FX they used in BladeRunner.
I just read on the net , that the in the movie/novel Johny Mnemonic, Molly, makes her first appearance.
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:22 pm |
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Notice in the article it said that the movie would cost $70 million to make. It's up to you to decide whether or not that's a big enough budget for an independent company to spend. But, the producer says "Every indie wants to have one or two high-budgeted pics in its portfolio. For us, both the Verhoeven and 'Neuromancer' fit that description" so at least THEY see it as a big-budget movie.
I don't think they should have to update the tech at all really, most of the tech that the plot revolves around is still considered sci-fi so it won't seem dated. I can't think of anything used in the book that's specifically out of date, I don't think Gibson ever described the beauty of the modem noise coming out of the phone line or anything.
All in all, I'd be more enthusiastic about this project if they had a director that had more than "Torque" under his belt. If you imdb him you'll see that his other directing accomplishments include Britney Spears videos...
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:01 pm |
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They should only update the tech a little bit. Have a mix of the old and new. The way I see it, if they keep the old, it could give it a bit of a darker tone, showing the dark times everyone is facing in the story.
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