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Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade
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Author : mindcrime
Score : 24 points
Date : 2026-04-18 17:46 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| thepryz wrote:
| While I'm interested to see how they adapt Neuromancer to the
| screen, I get a sense that the author of the article never read
| the book nor took the time to understand Neuromancer's place in
| culture.
| qubex wrote:
| Likewise. Having read Neuromancer a good five years before The
| Matrix ever hit the cinemas, the two are well distinct in my
| mind in a manner in which they apparently aren't to this
| author.
| tim-tday wrote:
| What the actual fuck.
|
| The kind of person who came up with it has no understanding or
| appreciation of the genre or the concepts involved. There is no
| conceptual thread to unify that book and the movie franchise.
|
| Wait, wait what if we combined "the odyssey and ... the bible!"
| Wat. "No no, it makes sense. If you ignore everything both books
| are about, the textural uniqueness and the every concept each of
| them contains!"
| hyperhello wrote:
| It's TV. You're getting derivative pablum in the best case.
| cyberpunk wrote:
| Goddamnit! All I wanted is a quiet life for a few years; and now
| they're making a biopic about me? They didn't even reach out to
| my team to gather details. I guarantee they'll probably get my
| shell and font preferences wrong.
| hyperhello wrote:
| Hurry up and get to the studio in your high powered vehicle
| before your implant times out!
| weard_beard wrote:
| Its ok he'll just slot some new softs from Shinjuku corp and
| break the ICE on the implants from his VR 3d rendered file
| system that he jockeys into with his Nintendo power glove.
|
| *Oh god, you made me remember Adobe Atmosphere was a thing...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere
| weard_beard wrote:
| The article is the most blatant AI slop I've ever seen.
| Neuromancer is iconic in a way that needs no clumsy metaphor or
| equivocating awkward comparison.
|
| It's like reading a biography of George Washington and the
| "author" keeps reaching for ways to explain his traits saying
| things like, "He was known primarily for his love of cherries, so
| much so that he chopped down a tree of them. Very similar to the
| more well known Honest Abe Lincoln who would chop down trees due
| to his love of cabin building. This is the most important fact
| about these two men that I found mentioned online."
|
| I feel less educated for having read it.
| arisAlexis wrote:
| Calling the Neuromancer like that is an abomination and shows
| total ignorance about Gibson being the OG of the genre.
| archonis wrote:
| As Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K.
| Dick than to his sprawl trilogy.
|
| ...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while
| shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix
| was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.
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