Fox’s NEUROMANCER Taps Tim Miller To Direct The Cyberpunk Novel Adaptation
More than a year after departing efforts to return to the director’s chair for Deadpool 2, Tim Miller will instead be boarding Twentieth Century Fox’s latest move to sci-fi, Neuromancer. Simon Kinberg is producing the film now hailing as a major project for Miller’s notable VFX workshop, Blur Studios, following decades of industry attempts to bring William Gibson’s 1984 cyberpunk novel to the big screen. Case was one of the best console cowboys until he stole from one of his employers, who in turn damaged his nervous system so that he cannot access cyberspace anymore. Broke and destroying himself, Case is contacted by Molly, a heavily modified razorgirl, to work for a shadowy colonel who needs a cyberspace cowboy for a secret mission. The employer fixes Case’s damaged brain, but implants a slow dissolving poison to make sure the cyberspace wiz does his bidding, in attempting to abduct a perverse […]