After years in development, Vincenzo Natali’s ‘Neuromancer’ is finally moving forward. According to a press release, the film has secured sales from distributors at Cannes and visual effects work has already begun. Filming will begin in 2012 with locations in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London.
‘Neuromancer’ is an adaptation of William Gibson’s award-winning book of the same name. The book is widely regarded as visionary, foretelling certain aspects of the internet and coining the term “cyberspace”. The novel tells the story of Case, an out-of-work computer hacker hired by an unknown patron to participate in a seemingly impossible crime. The novel examines the concepts of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state, and cyberspace long before these ideas became fashionable in popular culture.
When a U.S. general is captured by the Nazis, a group of allied secret agents is sent on a daring raid on a heavily protected Bavarian castle where they’re holding the American prisoner. But the mission is not just about rescuing the prisoner…
In a small rural town whose police force is incompetent to solve the murders, two beautiful young women have been found dead, raped and strangled with their own underwear. The detectives try to nail the crime on anyone suspicious before they get the help of a detective from Seoul.
In 1997, in a crime-ridden world, Manhattan island has been turned into a maximum security prison. The most dangerous criminals are put there for life, behind a large wall that cuts them off from the rest of the world, in a prison governed by gangs. Efforts to escape are in vain, as the police surrounding the island promptly kills any escapees.
This ’80s film is maybe too little-known for what it delivers. Set in the middle ages, in a western Europe afflicted by the bubonic plague, it follows a group of savage mercenaries as they brutally loot, kill and rape.
