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Sorry can’t make this equation work. The rumors attached to the Neuromancer movie just make me cringe at what’s happening to the icons of my youth. I read the book twice my senior year of high school and thought William Gibson had created a window to the future. So forgive me if I think directing “Torque” does not give you the background necessary to take on the novel that that foresaw the growth of Fascism as we interfaced more with our computers. Maybe the producer saw the chase scene it “Matrix II” and thought that was the whole of what cyberpunk was about. I could be wrong but it would explain a lot. Cyberpunk is just an umbrella term invented by critics to pigeonhole the fiction of the mid to late 80’s that looked past Orwellian fears of government oppression and predicted the growth of corporate control.
In Neuromancer William Gibson looked past Glasnost and saw the looming specter of a global economy that sought to control the masses through the use of an innocuous device; the personal computer. I look at Neuromancer’s empty IDMb page and pray that the rumors are just that; rumors. Oh, if you’re looking for me to shoot down Hayden Christensen, I’ll hold my venom till I see the film. Case is a whiney little punk who occasionally borrows a pair of balls from Molly Millions. I do reserve the right to tear into him if they completely miscast ‘Rose Kolodny’. The Molly/Case relation is crucial to the story. It could always be worse, of course. They could cast Ashton Kutcher and make a comedy/thriller. They could really pull in the kids by renaming the project “Cyberpunk’d” Dear God if this comes to pass, kill me.
-CJ
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