Neuromancer [Complete] - Unmade Masterpieces 

I've loved William Gibson's work since I was a teen. I still remember the first time I read Neuromancer. I couldn't get it out of my mind, I'd never read anything so odd and exciting. I loved the futuristic yet broken world where it's set, and, I've returned to it and its (somewhat) sequels time and time again. Really, I've probably read Neuromancer 25 times at least, that's how much I adore it. It never gets old. I remember the first time my then-young son tried to read it but just wasn't there yet, just a bit too young, and, he's not a big reader of fiction, he prefers nonfiction books entirely. I've talked about this book so much that he felt he had to at least try it. I was glad when he returned to it a few years later and finished it. I think he had the same look on his face that I did when trying to speak about it afterwards. Confusingly fascinating, but from his perspective, a little old, bc he's grown up with broadband internet 24/7 and a Smartphone in his pocket his whole life. When I first read Neuromancer, nothing like that existed at all so maybe it was easier for me to imagine that world, not really knowing what it was like. I can't say enough good things about Neuromancer or William Gibson at all. I enjoyed The Peripheral and was happy to see it renewed for a second season. Really, after The Matrix came out in 1999 (and with Keanu Reeves having played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic) I didn't think there was a chance in heck that Neuromancer would ever be successfully adapted or ever find its audience in film, even amongst Cyberpunk fans. I'm happy to hear there's still a chance for it. As you said, it's far too important of a book to be forgotten and needs new readers forever and always. (edited for spelling)

Very thoroughly researched and well-presented. Neuromancer may be the kind of work that ultimately resists adaptation, but modern streaming TV can probably give it its best chance to be realized in a (hopefully) satisfying form.

After I read Neuromancer, I read Gibson's "Burning Chrome', that explains many of the concepts and terms used in the later Neuromancer. For anyone who wants a bit of hand-holding, start with Burning Chrome. For more of a challenge, go straight to Neuromancer. I never felt any film captured the atmosphere of "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Cops & robbers space western style movies boil down to the hero vs. 'the system' yet fail to capture the concept of Gibson's insidious Zaibatsu - corporations so powerful that they control the world like nation-states. Thank you for including so many films with so many details about their development!

Another way to look at "Neuromancer" is... it's just a James Bond book.

Great vid as usual Henry. I can’t tell you how much I hope they both do and don’t make a film of Pattern Recognition.

Cube was a screen test the machines made for the construction of the matrix

I always wondered why the company was called "Cabana Boy Productions"

Great Stuff... I missed you Henry.

Tomorrow Calling, a British adaptation of The Gernsback Continuum, starring Colin Salmon, was released a couple of months before JM. It's probably still on RU-vid.

I loved Johnny Mnemonic

"punk rock sensibility"... You'll have to flesh that out and back it up. We do not arguably inhabit the world it predicted. This had better get good quick. The core thematic concept of "Neuromancer" is the core thematic concept of The Novel. What does it mean to be human? Not at all. Leary was really into that stuff. Probs had a sub to Mondo 2000. Oh, you knew that. You were just pretending to be surprised. 6:39 - That's a variation on a Leary quote. [wikipedia] "In the 1980s, Leary became fascinated by computers, the internet, and virtual reality. He proclaimed that "the PC is the LSD of the 1990s" and enjoined historically technophobic bohemians to "turn on, boot up, jack in." The thing is... it's too late. "Neuromancer" is stale. EXCEPT... It's about an AI.

Sounds like an anime

Only AI can translate it into its own movie

Maybe you simply don't know this, but the predictions John Brunner's book 'Shockwave Rider' written in 1975 (!) very much preceded the visions of 'The Internet' or Gibson's 'Matrix' for almost a decade. Being a reader of better and classical SF for more than 40 years now, to my opinion Brunner's achievement here stands second to nothing. And why you didn't even mention 'Altered Carbon' as the biggest obviously Gibson- inspired series to this day...!?

Vincenzo Natali and Hayden Christensen would've been my choice

I have read and seen all of Gibson's work including The Peripheral and it's sequel, Agency. Studio execs, as usual, are chickenshit to something as unique as Neuromancer.