Another
sci-fi
adaptation
is
making
its
way
to
Apple
TV
Plus.
The
streamer
announced
that
it’s
adapting
William
Gibson’s
seminal
cyberpunk
novel
Neuromancer
into
a
10-episode
series.
Graham
Roland
(Lost,
Jack
Ryan)
will
serve
as
showrunner,
while
JD
Dillard
(Utopia)
will
direct
the
first
episode.
(Both
will
also
be
executive
producers
on
the
series.)
That’s
about
all
we
know
right
now.
There
are
no
details
on
when
the
series
might
start
streaming
or
who
will
star.
In
a
press
release,
Apple
said
that
the
show
“will
follow
a
damaged,
top-rung
super-hacker
named
Case
who
is
thrust
into
a
web
of
digital
espionage
and
high
stakes
crime
with
his
partner
Molly,
a
razor-girl
assassin
with
mirrored
eyes
aiming
to
pull
a
heist
on
a
corporate
dynasty
with
untold
secrets.”
This
is
also
not
the
first
adaptation
of
Neuromancer,
which
originally
came
out
1984
as
Gibson’s
debut
novel.
Its
been
turned
into
a
video
game,
a
graphic
novel,
and
is
reportedly
being
made
into
a
movie
as
well.
(In
2022,
Amazon
adapted
another
Gibson
novel
—
The
Peripheral
—
into
a
live-action
streaming
series.)
Whenever
it
does
premiere,
Neuromancer
will
join
an
ever-growing
lineup
of
sci-fi
on
Apple
TV
Plus.
So
far
that
has
included
series
like
Foundation,
For
All
Mankind,
Silo,
Invasion,
Monarch,
and
Constellation,
which
premiered
earlier
this
month.
An
adaptation
of
Martha
Wells’
The
Murderbot
Diaries
is
also
in
the
works,
starring
Alexander
Skarsgård.
Original author: Andrew Webster
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