Wednesday, 26 May 2010

NEUROMANCER and MASS EFFECT head for the big screen

Director Vincenzo Natali is developing a movie based on William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. It's early days for the project, but the director sounds confident that time has caught up with the novel and that it is now possible to write a faithful adaptation.


Meanwhile, Legendary Pictures have picked up the movie rights to the Mass Effect series of computer roleplaying games. BioWare are working on a trilogy of games set in the SF universe (which depicts humanity as the junior member of an alliance of various races facing the threat of the alien Reapers in 2183) and released Mass Effect 2 earlier this year to critical acclaim.


Interesting to see if either of these projects make it to the movie screen in good shape.
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6 comments:

  1. Jaime26 May 2010 at 01:22:00 GMT

    Hope so. Neuromancer is the Duke Nuke'Em Forever of cinema.

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  2. Jack Eason26 May 2010 at 13:44:00 GMT

    Mass Effect - Loved the game. Don't know how they will translate the gender selection for the main character onto the silver screen though, do you?

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  3. Jack Eason26 May 2010 at 13:54:00 GMT

    Now if the powers that be wanted to make an exciting Scifi movie, then look no further than the new Scifi Space Opera novel "Onet's Tale" published by IFWG Publishing and available worldwide via the Amazon chain and Barnes & Noble in the U.S to name but two. A brilliant tale well told.Check it out Wertzone...

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  4. Zombie Neighbours26 May 2010 at 14:54:00 GMT

    Interesting news on neuromancer.

    I am glad that Joseph Kahn is no longer going to be directing this.

    Vincenzo Natali does atleast seem to understand cyberpunk, and his filmogrophy isn't bad..cube and tideland both being good, and cypher being vaguely promising, though far from perfect. Splice also looks interesting.

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  5. JD26 May 2010 at 19:53:00 GMT

    Cyberpunk has been historically poorly treated by cinema, hopefully this trend reverses.

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  6. Zombie Neighbours29 May 2010 at 22:16:00 GMT

    When i say that Vincenzo Natalidirected tideland, i am ofcause making an arse of myself and meaning that he directed Getting Gilliam, his documentry about the filming of tideland...

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