Apple TV+'s Neuromancer Series Takes Another Step Forward

Hollywood has been trying to adapt William Gibson’s groundbreaking 1984 cyberpunk caller Neuromancer for years—and present it truly seems the latest attempt, taking the signifier not of a diagnostic film but a bid astatine sci-fi hub Apple TV+—is genuinely happening. After a February announcement heralding the show, followed by Callum Turner’s casting, different cardinal relation has conscionable been filled.

Deadline has the scoop that Briana Middleton (Sharper; she was besides expected to prima successful the scrapped Sam Esmail Metropolis series) volition beryllium Neuromancer’s co-lead alongside Turner (Masters of the Air). As antecedently reported, the bid is co-created by Graham Roland (who volition showrun) and JD Dillard (who’s directing the pilot), and according to the commercialized “Neuromancer follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Turner) who is thrust into a web of integer espionage and precocious stakes transgression with his spouse Molly (Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to propulsion a heist connected a firm dynasty with untold secrets.”

When Neuromancer was announced successful February, Roland and Dillard shared their excitement successful a statement: “Since we became friends astir 10 years ago, we’ve looked for thing to squad up on, truthful this collaboration marks a imagination travel true. Neuromancer has inspired truthful overmuch of the subject fabrication that’s travel aft it and we’re looking guardant to bringing tv audiences into Gibson’s definitive ‘cyberpunk’ world.”

So acold there’s nary connection connected erstwhile Neuromancer mightiness beryllium hitting Apple TV+, but the momentum is decidedly gathering connected this 1 astatine agelong last. Are you excited to cheque it out?

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