I Want to Scrub Out My Brain So I Can Ignore This News.
Gladly I’d missed this news until now. Sadly Gibson himself mentioned it on his blog so it popped up on my radar. It appears professional cardboard cutout Hayden Christensen (without question one of the most wooden, charisma-starved actors of recent vintage) is teaming up with a “director” named Joseph Kahn (whose Torque, garnered a painful 3.4 out of 10 stars at the IMDB) to presumably disembowel one of my favorite novels of all time, William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
At first glance, there is no hope for this adaptation. At second glance, I will be stunned to the tips of my toes if this film is anything but an abomination.
The odds are stacked against them, but yet they plug on with this diabolical plan to stomp on the testicles of one of my personal cultural landmarks.
Why must they hurt me so?
Why can’t someone with talent and/or a track record have been given the keys to this project? There must be good directors out there with an interest in this seminal cyberpunk novel. Why did they pick as the star an actor so soulless he made me want to fast forward while Natalie Portman was on screen? Weren’t there any non-android actors available?
Why? Why? Why?
All that aside, at least the art department is competent. The teaser poster was released and, to be perfectly honest, I think it looks pretty cool:
Sadly, I’m thinking the poster will be the best part of the whole enterprise.
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