Hayden Christensen to star in Neuromancer
Melbourne, Jan 10 (ANI): Hayden Christensen will star in Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson’s cult 1984 novel.
I've frequently gotten a lot of inspiration from Neuromancer (as well as a lot of other Gibson work) in my Necromunda campaigns. The grim-and-grit visions of his world give fantastic ideas towards ganging and banging in the Underhive.
According to JoBlo.com, the 26-year-old Canadian actor will play the role of Case, an out-of-work computer hacker hired by a mysterious patron to participate in a seemingly impossible crime.
Joseph Kahn is directing the film, which carries an impressive 70 million-dollar budget, reports Moviehole.
The novel is considered “the archetypal cyberpunk work” and its winning the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award legitimised cyberpunk as a mainstream branch of science fiction literature.
It is among the most-honoured works of science fiction in recent history, and appeared on Time magazine’s list of 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.I've frequently gotten a lot of inspiration from Neuromancer (as well as a lot of other Gibson work) in my Necromunda campaigns. The grim-and-grit visions of his world give fantastic ideas towards ganging and banging in the Underhive.
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4 comments:
Hmmmm...I know he's been decent in films but whenever I think of Hayden I think of my favorite worst line from Episode II...
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere."
And I hear it exactly as it was delivered in the most petulant voice ever!
Hopefully this won't be another Johnny Neumonic
I have to admit, I absolutely loved Johnny Mnemonic. The whole genre is such a fav for me, but when you add in Henry Rollins, Dina Meyer and Ice T - it's gold!
With a book like 'Neuromancer' it's rather like the film adaptations of other SF and Fantasy Classics, 'Lord of the Rings', 'Dune' etc... it'll either work or be a huge dud. Some books like Asimov's 'Foundation' have been talked about being getting filmed for over 20 years, but some books are pretty hard to film and do justice to, I'd say 'Neuromancer' falls into that category !
I definitely agree, Andrew. Another problem as I see it is that people may not "get" it... if you know what I mean.
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