Hey folks, Harry here. We've long been covering the potential orgasm which is Chris Cunningham's involvement with William Gibson's NEUROMANCER hoping and praying that it would come to be. Seems they still don't have a script and Cunningham seems from the interview excerpts below to be doubting it will come about. But that doesn't really mean anything folks. With long gestating projects like this, the attached artists often feel that way. I remember when Guillermo Del Toro was convinced that HELLBOY would never ever happen... and, well now it is. So just hold on to that happy thought and maybe we'll one day get to see this dream project!
Hello Harry,
Anton Corbijn recently interviewed visionary director Chris Cunningham (if you don't know him...shame on you). Cunningham is attached to William Gibsons Neuromancer for quite some time now and while this certainly doesn't count as good news its still proving that the troubled project may become reality at some point.
Here is an excerpt of that interview: (Source: Aspextwin.nu and Director-File.Com/Cunningham)
“The project means alot to me, I have already been working at it for months and have met Gibson many times. We have alot of discussions, but somehow we can’t seem to really get this project started. There is by no means already a script or something like that. I worry about it alot. Sometimes I wake up and then I think it could be the greatest sciencefictionmovie ever made, but on other days I think I just feel the whole project is pointless and it will never work. William is one of the nicest persons I have ever met and I would very much like to do something with him.”
According to me the problem is that most directors don’t have a clue of how to portray something that is set in the future (you just have to think about how horrible the movie called “Johnny Mnemonic” was when Francesco Clemento filmed it). I try to convince Chris to make a film about Neuromancer. “Yeah, that movie looks pretty awful. That is something that never ceases to amaze me; that sciencefiction always attracts the wrong people, people who come flying at something shiny like a magpie. Something like: gee, there is technology in this movie so let’s use a flying car. Whilst the exciting thing about people in the future doesn’t lie in their environment. So I am very surprised when people say something like that is based upon books from William Gibson. When I finally read his work, I thought: this is not at all an inspiration-source for that type of movies. His books are so rich in atmosphere, they run so deep. It is NOT the futuristic technology that makes his books so interesting. I am crazy about the idea of once filming a sciencefiction-movie using only a 200mm lens, so that you never get to see the backgrounds.”
have a nice day
Roland Matthias Gaberz
