• J-Bone
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    212 hours ago

    I highly doubt this will be good. As others have mentioned they’ll probably just use the name and make some random BS story.

  • @benignintervention
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    1118 hours ago

    Neuromancer is not a book suited to adaptation. I have serious doubts

    • @MothmanDelorian
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      Dune wasn’t suited to adaptation and it was fine. This could also be fine

      I suspect Strong is playing Armitage.

    • @NIB
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      816 hours ago

      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.

      • @108
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        414 hours ago

        Sound alike they should name it something else then. Because that’s not Neuromancer.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        313 hours ago

        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.

        • @NIB
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          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.

      • Makhno
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        214 hours ago

        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

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      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.