Apple is giving us a ten-episode series adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. The project comes from co-creators Graham Roland and JD Dillard. Roland—whose previous credits include creating the AMC series Dark Winds, co-creating Prime Video’s Jack Ryan series, and writing for shows like Fringe, Lost, and Almost Human—will act as showrunner. Dillard will direct the pilot, and both will also serve as executive producers. The studios producing the show are Skydance Television, Anonymous Content, and Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment.
Neuromancer, of course, came out in 1984 and was Gibson’s first novel. It won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, and is credited for starting the cyberpunk movement.
Based on the official logline it sounds like the show will hue closely to the book, in that it “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.”
“We’re incredibly excited to be bringing this iconic property to Apple TV+,” Roland and Dillard said in a press release. “Since we became friends nearly ten years ago, we’ve looked for something to team up on, so this collaboration marks a dream come true. Neuromancer has inspired so much of the science fiction that’s come after it and we’re looking forward to bringing television audiences into Gibson’s definitive ‘cyberpunk’ world.”
If the series makes its way to a television near you, which seems likely, it will be the first adaptation of Gibson’s novel despite several efforts in the past to do so. No news yet on who will star in the film, much less when it will premiere on Apple TV+.
