‘Neuromancer’ Series at Apple TV+ Casts Mark Strong
‘Neuromancer’ Series at Apple TV+ Casts Mark Strong
Mark Strong is the latest addition to the Apple TV+ series adaptation of "Neuromancer," Variety has learned.
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Neuromancer is not a book suited to adaptation. I have serious doubts
The foundation was also not adaptable but they solved it by completely ignoring the books and writing their own stories. They kept some names and plot points but it is mostly using the IP name for marketing reasons and not as a base for the series.
Sound alike they should name it something else then. Because that’s not Neuromancer.
They should have just made an entirely new scifi show based on the trifold emperor, because that concept rocks. Everything else is bullshit, and they threw out the entire premise of the books halfway through season 1.
Yeah, the emperor part is the best part of the series and has nothing to do with the Foundation books. It is obvious that they wanted to make a series about that story, which is why it is the best part of the series.
The books are basically a collection of stories that take place over centuries/thousands of years. But in the series, you want familiar characters since you cant change characters every couple episodes, they did some insanely convoluted, inane things just so they can "connect" everything. It is like bad fanfiction.
And The Foundation has a script that was apparently written by a 15 year old.
So much cringe out of that show. Awesome world-building and CGI, though
Dune wasn’t suited to adaptation and it was fine. This could also be fine
I suspect Strong is playing Armitage.
In theory, I think it could be done, although you do suffer from the Lord of The Rings problem where so much stuff ripped off that book that now your adaptation can't help but look like a ripoff of everything else.
OTOH I very much doubt we'll actually see a good adaptation of Neuromancer, ever. Not unless the Wachowskis finally get their hands on it.