Apple’s “Neuromancer” filming: Production has started

Hardly any announcement may have put science fiction friends in more excitement: Apple plans to have the William-Gibson-Cyberspunk classic “Neuromancer” filmed for his streaming service TV+. According to information from the past spring that the rights have been acquired, there is now another sign of life: by Short teaser on YouTube Apple said that the implementation was “in production”.

No release date yet

There is not really much to be seen from the 26 -second clip: We see a rotating camera ride through a dark pub that slowly lights up with a pinball machine, a tap and neon lights with the inscription “Bar Chatsubo”. (In this bar in Chiba, “Neuromancer” readers in the book know the hero.) Finally, the lettering “Neuromancer” and “Now in Production” as well as the Apple TV+logo appear. The teaser appeared on the 41st birthday of the novel: William Gibson published it on July 1, 1984.

Apple plans to bring a total of ten episodes of “Neuromancer” instead of transforming the book into a film. The work actually gives material enough. The approach is similar to that of “The Peripheral” – here Amazon Prime had filmed a new book by Gibson as a series (eight episodes), but then unfortunately set with a cliffhanger. So far, Apple has not given any information on when “neuromancer” will run. However, it turns out that the production preparation took a long time. Case is to be played by Callum Turner (“Masters of the Air”), Molly, his bodyguard and partially lover, by Briana Middleton (“Sharper”).

Hope for good implementation

“Neuromancer” is considered the overfather of cyberpunk literature, ultimately introduced the term “cyberspace”. “The series follows a damaged super hacker named Case, who, together with his partner Molly, an assassin with mirrored eyes who plans a robbery on a company dynasty with unexpected secrets, gets into a network of digital espionage and crime with high use,” so Apple’s slightly blurred plot relaxation.

It has been tried to film “neuromancer” over the four decades after the novel appeared – so far it has not been possible. After all, there were computer games, including a popular game For the Commodore C64. Graham Roland (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Dark Winds”) and JD Dillard (“Devotion,” “The Outsider,” “Sleight”) are to be implemented.