NEUROMANCER Going into Pre-Production
It was announced last year that Splice director Vincenzo Natali was attached to direct the feature film adaptation of the William Gibson novel Neuromancer. Seven Arts Pictures has now announced that the project has moved into pre-production.
This book introduced the world to Cyberspace, and was the first novel to win three of the most popular science fiction awards such as the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. Here's a description of the story for those that are not familiar:
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....
This will make a great film. It will be incredibly interesting to see how Natali ends up adapting this story into a film. I liked his first film Cube, but Splice was simply a terrible movie. I hope he has what it take to bull this off. Do you think Natali will do a good job bringing this story to life?
Here's the official press release:
Seven Arts Pictures and GFM Films announced today that Neuromancer, written and directed by Vincenzo Natali and adapted from the William Gibson best-selling novel, has secured sales from distributors in the first three days of Cannes. Territories licensed include: South Korea and Thailand, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India, CIS, Poland, and the Middle East.
"Response to this cult cyberspace thriller has been tremendous and the film ticks a lot of boxes with distributors. The film will be a Canadian-European co-production with principal photography occurring in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London. Work on the visual effects has already begun, with an anticipated start date in the first quarter of 2012," said Kate Hoffman, Chief Operating Officer of Seven Arts. GFM also reported advanced discussions in Germany, the UK, France, and the USA.