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If you’ve been checking up on the Neuromancer movie news, you’ll probably be aware that Case has been renamed to Cage in the official press material, the teaser poster looks like a Bauhaus/steampunk wet dream on mescaline and a tint of artstyness and Hayden Christensen is not listed on the movie’s IMDB page at the moment.

You might not know, though, that there’s a longer and quite creative thread about Neuromancer on Coilhouse (who have actually released their first print version that doesn’t get into wide circulation so order them like fuck, I’ve already done so) and there you have a YouTube embed of Kahn’s version of the George Michael track Freeek and it looks very slick to be cyberpunkish, if anything. If Kahn can keep a steady hand on the visuals, Neuromancer’s going to be a decent slap on the face. (via coilhouse)

I’ll ask the same question here, though: tell me about your ideas, who’d you cast as the main characters?

Australian cyberpunk duo Angelspit is busy posting the production diaries of their new album and slowly, if they keep their pace of posting and I keep my pace of neglecting posting here in favor of glorious work and keeping my nervous system intact (which is far funnier than it sounds, trust me), [planetdamage] will become nothing more than their foothold. Blimey.

Synthespians (Gibson’s version of personality constructs) are on the rise thanks to Image Metrics, the guys behind GTA’s animations. Their artificial construct, Emily (on the yt above) is controlled by a new system that takes facial control down to the pixel level - that, the extreme focus on the perfect timing of eye movements and the subtle imperfections and asymmetries make the constructs into real humans. Sites fantasize about chatbots and CG movies that pwn live-action ones. Yes please. Longer history on synthespians and idorus later, on the new version of PD. (via Times Online via Technovelgy via IO9)

Long live the Sydney axis and two re-interpretations of cyberpunk. Above, industrial metal band NEW PROJECT promoting their 2006 EP Primal.Logic.Slave, below, another production diary by ANGELSPIT.

A D4m4g3 blogja legalább két ok miatt kilóg a listából. Félig angol, félig videó, a maradék meg magyarul van. Japán és távol-keleti vizuális kultúráról ír, nem törődik bele, hogy a cyberpunk túl van a legjobb napjain (mondjuk ezen én sem tudok felülemelkedni), és borzasztóan csípős dolgokról ír olyan lelkesedéssel, hogy az embernek kedve támad napalmot inni felmosóvödörből. (Kelt, SFportal.hu)

Dehogynem tudok felülemelkedni. Játsszunk egyet, adjunk nevet a jelenünknek megint. A retinákra égő hi-tech-low-life cyberpunk a jackdugókkal meg a loákkal már hálószoba faláról vakolattal együtt hámló tiniposzter, a cyberteret már túlideologizáltuk, a cyberspace 3d rácshálójából 2001-ben iskolázott le mindenkit a Rez, a szintetikus drogok, a hi tech low life, a mindent alternatív módon, a hogyan legyünk urban surviver fiúk, hologramdíszes ruhák, utcasarkon állvakínaizás, corporate különhálók, sőt, a misztikum és a technológia katonai fúziója: minden megvalósult. Amíg ezt a mondatot leírtam, körülbelül huszonöt különböző üzenetet kaptam a képernyő különböző pontjaira, féltő gondoskodással őrzöm kordában tartott, előnyökre szabott ADHD-met.

A jelenünkről írok, mert a jelen a legjobb jövő, amit megkaphatunk.

The guys at QuietEarth do a decent reading up on Gibson’s blog (which I admit not reading, partly because of the emptiness that Spook Country left in me) and the entry on the 1st of August finally drives the point home: it’s not Gibson who’s working on the movie script for the Neuromancer film project.

I see that I was too gnomic, yesterday, as some people now assume that I, like Warren Ellis, am holed up doing things related to screenwriting. Some even assume I’m doing something related to the mysterious Neuromancer film project, but in fact neither is true. I’m actually holed up (or anyway “distracted”) in the early stages of a next novel, and the recent web-advent of that interestingly monochrome one-sheet for the putative production was the first I’d seen of it. Suffice it to say that I am not much in the loop on that one. But then again I am somewhat the opposite of Alan Moore, in that I regard screen adaptations of my work with little more than simple childlike curiosity. (via quietearth)

If Kill Kitty wasn’t enough for you, here’s a new lo-fi video production diary of Angelspit’s new album, Blood Death Ivory.

Rapidfire cyberpunk newsflash straight from the movies, safety belts and enema diving kits in action!
ALIENS: No more Alien(s) sequels, at least that’s what industry expert Cecelia from filmindustrybloggers.com sez, basically because almost all scripts are so full of clichés. BABYLON AD: IO9 has a few new clips from the movie. Just occurred to me that the Mélanie Thierry (the psychic girl) was also a key character in Julien Leclercq’s suberb medical cyberpunk SF, Chrysalis. GHOST IN THE SHELL 2.0: According to Twitch, there’s going to be a Blu-Ray version of the movie that features both the graphically updated 2.0 and the original versions and English dub will be included only on the original.

DEADLAND: New post-ap movie where Florida slides into the ocean and main character Sean Kalos crosses the radiation-plagued land to find his missus - no zombies and no gorgeous flesh-eating this time. ROBOCOP: Officially confirmed, it’s going to be Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) who’s gonna direct the remake. THE ROAD: A new post-apocalyptic movie featuring Viggo Mortensen (with a son) and a bunch of cannibals hot on their trails. TERMINATOR 4 - SALVATION: While rumor has it that Linda Hamilton will be featured in all three Terminator movies currently in (various states of) production, Helena Bonham Carter is definitely cast and she sez her character is a very, very bad person. TR2N: Original screenwriter Steve Lisberger’s script that’s been worked on for years has been ditched.

(via twitchfilm)

We have a new teaser from REPO!:THE GENETIC OPERA, the scene Mark it Up! featuring lovely (really) Paris Hilton, and a gorgeously eccentric Ogre from Skinny Puppy. Grotesque, tinted fuckerily and with brains.

UPDATE 1: Eftelsander removed the Mark It Up scene and replaced it with a behind the scenes video - with more insight and unfortunately, more talk. Enjoy.