![]() ![]() With The Matrix 4 in production, producers might think there is only enough room for one cyberpunk, matrix-heavy movie at a time. The film series is so firmly entrenched in the public consciousness, there’s always the risk that a large portion of the movie-going public will be unfamiliar with Neuromancer and its influence, and see it as a rip-off of the Wachowski Sisters’ franchise. It isn’t unusual for films to languish in development hell for so long, but Neuromancer has another stumbling block: The Matrix. As of 2019, he's still signed on to direct the project, but no further news has been announced. Then in 2017, the torch was passed to Tim Miller, the man responsible for directing Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate. Even with so much good talent onboard, it looked like a Neuromancer movie would never happen. Eventually, however, that attempt also failed. The director’s seat was then given to Vincenzo Natali ( Cube, Cypher), who was in charge for several years. The story of the book centers on Case, a 'cowboy' who jacks into cyberspace to perform all sorts of espionage, theft, and other cyberpunky-stuff. Then Torque director Joseph Kahn picked up the helm, but almost as soon as that happened, it collapsed once again. The biggest and perhaps most famous influence on The Matrix is William Gibsons genre-transforming 1984 novel Neuromancer. ![]() ![]() In the early 2000s, Chris Cunningham worked with Gibson on an adaptation of the novel, but a few years later, this version had fallen through. ![]()
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