While I'm interested to see how they adapt Neuromancer to the screen, I get a sense that the author of the article never read the book nor took the time to understand Neuromancer's place in culture.
The kind of person who came up with it has no understanding or appreciation of the genre or the concepts involved. There is no conceptual thread to unify that book and the movie franchise.
Wait, wait what if we combined “the odyssey and … the bible!”
Wat.
“No no, it makes sense. If you ignore everything both books are about, the textural uniqueness and the every concept each of them contains!”
I highly doubt the creators for the show are actually combining The Matrix and Blade Runner. It just seems the author is hallucinating nonsense.
The Matrix took inspiration from Neuromancer and I guess Blade Runner is the closest we have to a cyberpunk-vibe movie?
None of the text in this article are quotes by the creators, it’s just someone who clearly hasn’t read Neuromancer an asked an LLM to write the article and compare it to existing movies.
Matrix isn’t cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of punk. Think bikers, street gangs, heavy metal. The first two Terminators.
By the time Matrix came around, punk was out. Not a bad thing. Things come and go.
But sadly the cyber and punk parts got confused: Steampunk and Biopunk, which aren’t very punky.
I’m usually not a genre stickler, but I just got done reading anthology of early 80s cyberpunk punk. It was shocking. Really shocking. It was more about heavy metal and raves than technology.
Goddamnit! All I wanted is a quiet life for a few years; and now they're making a biopic about me? They didn't even reach out to my team to gather details. I guarantee they'll probably get my shell and font preferences wrong.
The article is the most blatant AI slop I’ve ever seen. Neuromancer is iconic in a way that needs no clumsy metaphor or equivocating awkward comparison.
It’s like reading a biography of George Washington and the “author” keeps reaching for ways to explain his traits saying things like, “He was known primarily for his love of cherries, so much so that he chopped down a tree of them. Very similar to the more well known Honest Abe Lincoln who would chop down trees due to his love of cabin building. This is the most important fact about these two men that I found mentioned online.”
As Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K. Dick than to his sprawl trilogy.
...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 36.5 ms ] thread"Apple TV’s Neuromancer will borrow from The Matrix’s existential mystery and Blade Runner’s textured setting..."
The kind of person who came up with it has no understanding or appreciation of the genre or the concepts involved. There is no conceptual thread to unify that book and the movie franchise.
Wait, wait what if we combined “the odyssey and … the bible!” Wat. “No no, it makes sense. If you ignore everything both books are about, the textural uniqueness and the every concept each of them contains!”
The Matrix took inspiration from Neuromancer and I guess Blade Runner is the closest we have to a cyberpunk-vibe movie?
None of the text in this article are quotes by the creators, it’s just someone who clearly hasn’t read Neuromancer an asked an LLM to write the article and compare it to existing movies.
By the time Matrix came around, punk was out. Not a bad thing. Things come and go.
But sadly the cyber and punk parts got confused: Steampunk and Biopunk, which aren’t very punky.
I’m usually not a genre stickler, but I just got done reading anthology of early 80s cyberpunk punk. It was shocking. Really shocking. It was more about heavy metal and raves than technology.
It’s like reading a biography of George Washington and the “author” keeps reaching for ways to explain his traits saying things like, “He was known primarily for his love of cherries, so much so that he chopped down a tree of them. Very similar to the more well known Honest Abe Lincoln who would chop down trees due to his love of cabin building. This is the most important fact about these two men that I found mentioned online.”
I feel less educated for having read it.
...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.
I hope it fairs better than Gibson's other adaption, The Peripheral. Like many things I liked, cancelled after one season.
I won't get my hopes up.