William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' to Become a Series on Apple TV+

It's been adapted into a graphic novel, a videogame, a radio play, and an opera, according to Wikipedia — which also describes years of trying to adapt Neuromancer into a movie. 'The landmark 1984 cyberpunk novel has been on Hollywood's wishlist for decades,' writes Gizmodo, 'with multiple filmmakers attempting to bring it to the big screen.' (Back in 2010, Slashdot's CmdrTaco even posted an update with the headline 'Neuromancer Movie In Your Future?' with a 2011 story promising the movie deal was 'moving forward....')

But now Deadline reports it's becoming a 10-episode series on Apple TV+ (co-produced by Apple Studios) starring Callum Turner and Brianna Middleton:
Created for television by Graham Roland and JD Dillard, Neuromancer follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly (Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.
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'We're incredibly excited to be bringing this iconic property to Apple TV+,' Roland and Dillard said in a statement. 'Since we became friends nearly 10 years ago, we've looked for something to team up on, so this collaboration marks a dream come true. Neuromancer has inspired so much of the science fiction that's come after it and we're looking forward to bringing television audiences into Gibson's definitive 'cyberpunk' world.'
The novel launched Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy of novels (building on the dystopia in his 1982 short story 'Burning Chrome'), also resurrecting the 'Molly Millions' character from Johnny Mnemonic — an even earlier short story from 1981...

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