MOVIE NEWS – The newly announced adaptation of Neuromancer faces a real uphill battle. The Apple TV+ series is in production now, and the new teaser is out!

William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer is the cornerstone of cyberpunk, merging noir detective tropes with a gritty near-future packed with cyborgs and hackers jacked into cyberspace. Hollywood’s been chasing this story for years—projects from music video auteur Chris Cunningham, Deadpool’s Tim Miller, and Cube’s Vincenzo Natali all fizzled. Now, after more than a decade of development hell, a 10-episode Apple TV Plus adaptation is finally happening.

The challenge? When a book is this influential, an adaptation can feel tired instead of groundbreaking. Gibson coined the term “the matrix” for his vision of cyberspace, a concept that directly inspired The Matrix and its many imitators, from Ready Player One to Altered Carbon. Neuromancer’s high-stakes heist, AI threats, and dystopian inequality might seem all too familiar to fans of Blade Runner 2049 or Cyberpunk 2077.

Apple TV Plus dropped a teaser on the novel’s 41st anniversary, keeping it simple—a flickering neon sign, our first glimpse of Chatsubo, the Japanese expat bar where super-hacker Case (played by Callum Turner, Masters of the Air) hangs out. He teams up with cyborg assassin Molly (Briana Middleton) for a dangerous job targeting a corporate giant hiding deadly secrets. Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) is the showrunner, with JD Dillard (Devotion) directing the pilot.

No release date has been set. Let’s hope audiences aren’t burned out on cyberpunk—or living it—by the time the series finally drops.

Source: Polygon