This sci-fi masterpiece, considered unadaptable, is becoming a TV series

For several years, the Apple TV+ platform has specialized in ambitious, big-budget and spectacular science fiction series, and it does not intend to stop there. After For All Mankind, Foundation, Silo, and Constellation, the streaming service has acquired the rights to a new SF fiction based on a literary masterpiece that has been deemed unadaptable.

The sci-fi masterpiece that inspired The Matrix

This is a novel Neuromancer Written by William Gibson and published in 1984, it will become a TV series for Apple TV+. This multi-award winning book is considered the founding novel of the cyberpunk movement and has inspired many works such as manga. A ghost in a shell And the Matrix movie.

There have been many attempts to adapt this novel, including from videographer and special effects professor Chris Cunningham (Alien 3, AI), director Vincenzo Natali (The Cube) and Tim Miller (Deadpool).

But this is ultimately a 10-episode series Neuromancer Adapted by Graham Rowland (Fringe, Jack Ryan) and JD Dillard (Devotion, The Twilight Zone). Ever since we became friends almost 10 years ago, we’ve been looking for a project to team up on, so this collaboration was a dream come true. Neuromancer has inspired many of the sci-fi films that have followed, and we look forward to bringing TV audiences to it. Gibson’s cyberpunk universe“- explained the duo.

“Masters of the Air” star in casting

For now, Neuromancer has been ordered for a season by Apple TV+, but if it’s a success, the series could be renewed for more episodes, given that William Gibson has commissioned two sequels to his novel – count to zero (1986) and Mona Lisa is having fun (1988) – to create a trilogy called “Sprawl”.

The Neuromancer series project was announced by Apple TV+ last February, but production appears to be progressing quickly after the platform recently announced its first big name casting. Deadline.

Indeed, Callum Turner, who we already saw in The Green Room and Fantastic Beasts, but who really exploded this year with the spectacular war series Air Masters (produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks), who will headline Neuromancer.

He portrays Henry Dorsett Case, a cyberspace “cowboy”, a hacker who travels to the Matrix, Conurb, the world’s largest megapolis located in North America. He is the best and nothing can beat him. But one day, too greedy, he decides to double cross his employer.

The latter, in response, injects him with a Russian mycotoxin that selectively destroys the part of his nervous system connected to the “trodes” (electrodes on his computer console). Then Casey loses his ability to connect to the matrix: all is lost for him, he is nothing…