lets hope it goes more the way of silo then the way of foundation. Fortunately there are no big ideas to dumb down like what was in the trainwreck that was the peripheral adaptation
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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It's kinda funny to hear someone say that, because Neuromancer's concepts were so revolutionary that you needed to reread the whole thing at least twice to get it.
What happened is that technological advancement brought us to a point where we find the concepts in Neuromancer almost trivial to understand nowadays.
Oh, Cyberspace? You mean, like, the internet? Oh but it's in VR. Cool.
Cant help feel this will be like the later seasons of Witcher were they wanted a big name to give them a built in audience to their own stories rather than actually adapting what is there. This rarely works as fans of the books want the book adapted not something new and different badged as coming from the book.
Second problem is that Neuromancer was very much of its time, much of its concepts have become standard tropes now across the genre and even in everyday life. This greatly limits its impact to audiences new to Neuromancer as they have seen it all before.
I will give it a go but I am not holding out much hope.