Calling All Console Cowboys: Apple TV Plus Just Dropped the First Teaser for ‘Neuromancer’

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Apple TV Plus has just published the first official overview of its next science fiction program, NeuromanceAn adaptation of William Gibson’s novel from the 80s which launched the Cyberpunk movement.

The teaser lasts only 26 seconds and “the action” is less than 10 seconds. We see the interior of a low ceiling space lit by a single arched window. A pinball sparkle in life. One by one, the other lights light up, and a sign of neon proclaims “bar catsubo”.

The cat, as his name is in the book, is the bar where we first meet our protagonist, case (played by Callum Turner). Case is a former console cowboy (pirate) which damaged its nerves, cutting its access to cyberspace (a word that Gibson invented in the early 1980s). The luck of box turns back when he meets Molly (played by Briana Middleton), an assassin with blades under his nails and his mirror led through his eyes.

If it seems a little derived from Cyberpunk 2077, it is probably the opposite: Neuromance did it first. The book made its debut in 1984, and there have since had many unsuccessful attempts to adapt it as a film or television program. (It is not exactly easy to view Gibson’s description of cyberspace: “Luminous Lattices of logic taking place through this colorless void.”)

But neuromance ideas have flowed over the decades. His pirates described cyberspace as “the matrix” 15 years before the film which popularized the sentence. (Trinity in the Matrix is ​​fundamentally the same character as Molly, the less the razorblades.) The case is a drug addict who cannot bear to spend too much time to take cyberspace – a bit like the way you and I are probably addicted to the Internet today.

It’s been a long time, but here it is now: our first overview of what will finally be a fully achieved adaptation of neuromance. Hoping that Apple TV Plus does it justice.