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Frant
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 Posted: Sat, 24th Jan 2009 21:13 Post subject: Neuromancer (never made) |
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| Quote: | 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.
Director: Joseph Kahn
Writer: William Gibson (novel)
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What really annoys me with this movie is the director.... Joseph Kahn?
Let's see what he's done before this:
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# Absolute Garbage (2007) (V) (video "Cherry Lips [Go Baby Go!]")
# Mobb Deep: Life of the Infamous... The Videos (2006) (V) (segment "Quiet Storm")
# Blink 182: Greatest Hits (2005) (V) (video "Always")
# Britney Spears: Greatest Hits - My Prerogative (2004) (V) (video "Stronger") (video "Toxic")
# Britney Spears: In the Zone (2004) (V) (video "Toxic")
# 20th Century Masters: The Best of New Edition - The DVD Collection (2004) (V) (video "I'm Still in Love With You")
# Torque (2004)
# U2: The Best of 1990-2000 (2002) (V) (video "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of")
# "Making the Video" (1999) TV series (unknown episodes) |
He's a f*cking music video director... Britney Spears: In the Zone??? FFS, and this is the guy they put in charge of Neuromancer, the novel that defined a completely new genre of SciFi? 
EDIT: Duh, forgot the link to the imdb page...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037220/
Found the first poster as well:
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Jan 2009 21:16 Post subject: |
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While I don't know what Neuromancer is, if this movie is half as good as Torque it'll be an instant classic.
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Jan 2009 21:40 Post subject: |
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Neuromancer is the book that invented words like cyberspace, implants etc.. It's an amazing book (it's actually the first book in a trilogy called "The Sprawl Trilogy", the other parts named "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive") taking place some time in the not-too distant future when cities have become super-sized (hence the use of the word sprawl), corporations rule, information is the most important commodity and hackers connect to cyberspace by jacking in straight into their brains. It kind of revolutionized the scifi genre in 1984 when it was released. Any movie and book since that have used some lame CGI to represent "cyberspace" or used the concept of AI's controlling corporations have borrowed most of it from Neuromancer, yet none of them comes even close to the masterpiece.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Jan 2009 21:42 Post subject: |
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Johnny Mnemonic is a short story by the same author that was made into a fairly crappy movie that had little to nothing to do with the original story except the setting. At least some of the concepts were used in the movie with Keanu Reeves. Unfortunately I don't think Joseph Kahn will do better with Neuromancer than Robert Longo did with Johnny Mnemonic. :/
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Jan 2009 21:59 Post subject: |
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Awesome book, pretty good game, although too hard after some point !
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Jan 2009 23:49 Post subject: |
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You mean : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037220/ ?
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 06:31 Post subject: |
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yeah, don't get your hopes up. my niece's kindergarten class could probably make a better movie than these clowns.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 11:02 Post subject: |
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...but that one is in the first post too  |
Didn't see it 
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 14:03 Post subject: |
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Yup, Mancer inspired the Matrix along with various other great sci-fi films.
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Jan 2009 10:25 Post subject: |
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uwe boll, please. at least it could be funny if it came from him.
this, on the other hand, will prolly just be depressingly shitty.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Sep 2011 05:33 Post subject: |
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Some news about this one:
Director: Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Cypher, Nothing, Splice etc.)
Slashfilm reports that sales rights were secured at the Cannes Film Festival, currently underway in France, and filming will begin in 2012 in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo and London. Visual-effects work already has begun.
Vincenzo Natali will direct the film. The Detroit native's previous films include the scientifically creepy "Splice" and intensely paranoid "Cube," both of which seem well in line with "Neuromancer."
In 2010, before it was decided that Natali would direct it etc.:
| Quote: | [T]he very word “matrix” is in Neuromancer. It was borrowed by the Wachowski brothers for their film. I think that’s a good thing, because I don’t even know how someone would have been able to make that film 10 years ago or 15 years ago, because it’s so abstract. I don’t even know how people understood the book when it first came out. I think I read it in the late 1980s, but in 1984, how would people even understand it, because it was just so far ahead of the curve? ...
I think when you read it now, it still feels very relevant, maybe in some ways more relevant, because so much of what it predicted has come to pass. And therefore, my approach to it would be to be very realistic.
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I feel a little better about Natali taking care of it.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Sep 2011 13:19 Post subject: |
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Yeah definitely a change for the better, hopefully. Can't wait, i'll try to keep my expectations low though, Neuromancer is probably my all time favorite book together with Jeff Noon's "vurt".
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Yes, i think i've read all except "falling out of cars". I can highly recommend pixel juice, some really great short stories in that one, but the other books are really good as well.
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guess they want to film Pattern Recognition also 
