neuromancer movie poster: definitely steampunk
From Twitch to QuietEarth and a couple dozens of other sites you could have already gathered: we have the first poster for the Neuromancer movie. And looking at the poster, I didn’t want to post it for a few days, thinking very much it’s a hoax. Because the poster, as you can see, has nothing, nothing to do with cyberpunk at all.
If it were for a steampunk movie, I’d like it. Because how I see it from here, the gears, the nails and all the contraptionry, it has more to do with antique than neonlite and rain. The cranial cables, those are fine. The mood it conveys, could make me remember Straylight. “Based on the book by William Gibson”? Makes me say oh-oh. Hardwired readers say Gibson hasn’t even been asked to work on the movie. (UPDATE 1: According to Indiewire, it is Gibson who’s working on the movie script right now.) The fact that I found out a week ago that Hayden Christensen is not listed as Case on the movie’s IMDB page, it’s mostly discarded by other sites. (Hope, that’s a hard bitch to kill, man.)
By the way, I watched Kahn’s movie, Torque, the one everyone managed to bash. I would so take the helm from him. Give it to Aronofsky. Tsukamoto. Wouldn’t say Cunningham, he’s been long off the job. Give the role of Finn to Iggy Pop. You know why Johnny Mnemonic was a good movie? Because it had the pop sensibility and the iconic guys of its era. You know why it’s going to be hard, trying to revive the Neuromancer spirit? Because we’ve already sped past it.
The television skies of Chiba City branded his brains in 1992. He hasn't recovered fully since. Re-wired his brain with a few years of FastTracker, hosted radio shows on the first .hu netradio for 4 years, went on to broadcast radio for another two. Worked on the absurd radio series Kónuszék, that actually led him to become a script writer for the multiple-award winning animation Nyócker.
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m1k3y
incongruous…
Aug 5th, 2008
oizys
Yeah, pretty much looks like a poster for Saw V.
Although I’m sure it has nothing to do with the final version, just something for the buzz.
As for the last lines: so much true. Any production company should consider this project as a possible cult feature for their names and calculate with a zero balance as for the budget instead of direct profit.
Another thing: talking about iconic guys of the era, who would you take from ours? Iggy Pop is not our era, for sure. So who? An emo guy, a retro disco guy, a dubstep-head? I couldn’t come up with anything specific from fashion or movies, really, nothing outstanding. (Bale? Hell, no, not _again_…) Here’s the point: I am just not sure we have such heros as we could have a decade ago. Or maybe they should just find someone with the definite potential and not the scene-relation - like Lambert for Nirvana, an excellent choice (imho).
Aug 5th, 2008
m1k3y
sure you’ve seen the discussion of this now going on Coilhouse - http://coilhouse.net/2008/08/19/neuro-toxic/
ppl pointing to this George Michael clip as probable look’n'feel for Kahn’s take: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4NTe5O488
some of the scenes in that reminded me of the Man->Dog transformation in Ellis’s Mech
Aug 21st, 2008
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