Neuromancer to the Silver Screen

After reading this leader article, I'll reserve judgment. The director is -- at best -- an unknown quantity, (I'm being nice by pretending that Torque never happened). Additionally, the production company is an independent, so perhaps there's hope.

Neuromancer is one of the greatest, most influential sci-fi books ever written. It was Gibson's debut novel which, together with sequels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, created an entirely new genre while simultaneously redefining the rules of acceptable grammatical usage. (Gibson's ability to "paint mental pictures" with a few deft strokes of the pen is a thing of beauty, capable of generating both awe and envy in any aspiring writer.)

I'm very much afraid the movie folks will screw it up by trying to create "mass market appeal," in which case they may as well not bother. I must remind myself, however, that The Matrix was heavily based upon the cyberpunk genre created by Gibson's novels, and it was a wildly successful movie as measured by sci-fi standards...

As I said, I'll wait and see.