Yet another novel that shaped my life is being raped into a movie…<\/p>\n
Wired has a great story of “unfilmable” movies (see the Watchmen 3 hr DVD release thingy tie in they did there?) and on the list is Neuromancer<\/a>, by William Gibson. Part way through they link to a Seven Arts press release of old Neury in pre-production<\/a> with Torque<\/em> director Joseph Kahn dropping all his rock video projects so he can direct. Much comparison to the Canadian tax write-off Johnny Mnemonic<\/a> is made (Neuromancer producer Peter Hoffman was a “presenter” for Mnemonic, whatever that means). <\/p>\n Yikes.<\/p>\n Double yikes goes to the news of Hayden Christiansen joining the cast, most likely as Case, the strung out anti-hero hacker.<\/p>\n “Wintermute, please play audio file DarthYellsNOOOO.wav<\/em> on a continuous loop until my ears bleed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yet another novel that shaped my life is being raped into a movie… Wired has a great story of “unfilmable” movies (see the Watchmen 3 hr DVD release thingy tie in they did there?) and on the list is Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Part way through they link to a Seven Arts press release of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-178","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}