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   From: kbcalder@gmail.com   
      
   cykros  wrote:   
   > On 08/03/2012 07:48 AM, Kevin Calder wrote:   
   >> I'd say that right now we have a decent shot of getting a CP movie.   
      
   > Well, while I don't suggest getting your hopes up due to the history of   
   > this film possibility, there is a project to make a Neuromancer movie   
   > underway, with a fairly decent sized budget.  The number of difficulties   
   > in adapting it to the screen make me a bit dubious (...)   
      
   Wow, i didn't realise something was in the works again.  From what what   
   slim info i can find on it the project doesn't sound entirely misguided.   
      
   The main problem I see with making a NM film now is resisting the urge to   
   "update" it.  For me its essential that the director swallows NM's peculiar   
   future-fantasy whole, and avoids the urge to rethink stuff that has come to   
   seem implausible or perverse i.e. how useful would a navigable 3d   
   representation of network nodes actually be, or when exactly is hacking   
   going to become about battling ICE rather than plain old social   
   engineering?   
      
   Some kind of twitter+mirrorshades hybrid movie would be my worst case   
   scenario.   
      
   I just want some fully realised future 80s, with all the existentially   
   unmoored, visually gorgeous, morally ambiguous bleakness that that implies!   
    I was sort of joking about Drive, but also sort of not.  It seems like a   
   decent model for an NM movie in particular.   
      
   > And in the meantime, I'm really going to have to get used to cp being   
   > used to abbreviate "cyberpunk", as my initial response was to assume   
   > this thread was just pedophilia spam...   
      
   Hah!  I never noticed that.  "cyberpunk" started to seem like a dirty word   
   in the late 90s and on and i started typing cp instead.  Maybe its been   
   long enough now that we can rehabilitate the term!   
      
      
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