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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?

World War’s a new CG short directed by Vincent Chai, recent graduate of University of Hertfordshire, UK: brimming with pre-Hiroshima era urban landscapes, gritty bullet-time robot kung-fu, Wolverine claws and an atomic bomb. Given that it’s really an amateur project, it’s amazingly fun (all done with Maya, Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects). Check the bonus features on Chai’s site! (via dvice)

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)

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.

“The comic value is a murderer and a rapist.” Seriously. Repo: The Genetic Opera! has been one twisted piece of work that we’ve been expecting for quite some time and thank God, heaps of smart and relevant footage appears on YouTube, thanks to user Eftelsander who started posting excerpts and trailers like *snap snap* rapidfire. Surgery graft fetish boytoys, Paris Hilton cunt injections, future sluts and sleazy kink all the way. Check the “Zydrate Anatomy” scene above, below, a brief behind-the-scenes with Ogre of Skinny Puppy.

(via boingboing.tv)

Nothing like a fresh whiff of apocalypse for a new day! Fallout 3 is up-and-coming (we’ll talk more about it in a few days), the Mutant Chronicles review is still pending, so let’s feed you guys with 2009: A TRUE STORY, a 13-episode long webcast on how America’s gone to ruins. As IO9 says, cities were blown to bits by an unknown enemy, and the remaining government enforced the Patriot Act under the advertising campaign “America: Keep The Dream Alive.” The next thing anyone knew, American soil was no longer a safe place for free thinkers and idealists. (link, via io9)