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It's on the Seven Arts Pictures web site. If you spent 30 seconds to go to the primary source you'd see it isn't a *rumor*.

I went to the site of 7arts. I agree with Puppy. If that's not a rumor, the company is making a huge effort to make it looks like one... Even the link to the "promo image" is broken...

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Originally posted by Tessier Ashpool:
God. No.

I hope WG comments on this, cause a lot of fans (and people who appreciate good cinema) are going to be PISSED.

This would be like Michael Bay directing Blade Runner with McCauley Culkin playing Deckard.

Fuck that.

Come on be nice, Macaulay Culkin was actually pretty good in Party Monster and Saved!. Plus he contributes to Robot Chicken, all of this points to someone who is at least trying to grow in his craft, and has a sense of humor about himself.

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Even the link to the "promo image" is broken...

I think it's because they don't have an image yet, and the link to the placeholder does not work.

All we can deduce is that the company didn't really pay attention to this part of their website.
Maybe it indicates they don't care about this project...

what ArkanGL said (except the bit that it might indicate that they don't care about this project)

The real promotion of the film doesn't start until it's certain that it's going to hit the cinemas and DVD-shelves.

That they have *anything* about the movie on their website already is what surprises me.

I know that the Danish movie industry isn't Hollywood, but let's take an example of the movie "Det, som ingen ved" (What No One Knows), which is in post-production right now. There's no information readily available on Nimbus Film's website (if you do a Google site search you can find some press releases however). There are no promotional images, etc. Does this make this film a rumor?

You might think so. I wouldn't have known anything about this film at all if I hadn't talked to the author of the book it's based on ("En Anden Tid" by Søren Lassen). He told me that they had wrapped up the filming and that he was an extra in one scene.

A rumor would be if an American film company was eyeing the option for a remake of the film.

The thing is though, Hollywood is now all about pre-pre-prod rumor incubating, especially on internets in regards to sci-fi/fantasy/comic book film adaptations.

Cloverfield, for example, has done the bulk of it's marketing on the net. The project began as rumors and vague references to something JJ Abrams was doing tentatively titled: Cloverfield.

This is of course an extreme example, but the fact that internets aren't on fire over the flick is a further indication that the project isn't taken seriously.

The lack of buzz is all wrong and not in a Bigend sort of way.

Does anyone get imdb.com pro? they have some info on Neuromancer (2009) but I can't see it.

"Cage discovers that no one is in control of his or her own destiny and a new form of sentient technology is taking over. It’s down to Cage to face Neuromancer and do something he never has before: make the right choice."

So. many. things. wrong. with that. GRagh!

Movie rumors for NEUROMANCER abound every time there's a new Gibson book. Hardcover release gets them going.. they become more developed around the time the paperback comes out.. then the project fades into development hell once the book hype has died down.

When you think about it, it's really not a makable film. It'll never live up to "fans" expectations and most regular folk will find a difficult.

I seem to remember the movie rights are falling back in WG's hands very soon.

Like, a matter of weeks.

Pray with me, brothers

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Originally posted by mikethecat:

quote:

Originally posted by Tessier Ashpool:
God. No.

I hope WG comments on this, cause a lot of fans (and people who appreciate good cinema) are going to be PISSED.

This would be like Michael Bay directing Blade Runner with McCauley Culkin playing Deckard.

Fuck that.

Come on be nice, Macaulay Culkin was actually pretty good in Party Monster and Saved!. Plus he contributes to Robot Chicken, all of this points to someone who is at least trying to grow in his craft, and has a sense of humor about himself.

Awwww well ok, you're right on those counts. Thinking more "Home Alone" MC, which I somehow managed to see on TV over Christmas. I don't know why. Don't ask.

I should have said "with a cardboard box playing Deckard" because, excepting maybe Life as a House, Hayden Christensen has exhibited dramatic talent akin to a sheet of plasterboard.

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
I seem to remember the movie rights are falling back in WG's hands very soon.

Like, a matter of weeks.

Pray with me, brothers

Where did you get this info?

Some dude on http://www.cthreepo.com/blog/2007/05/neuromancer-movie.html

Said this:

Keith said...
Click on Gibson's blog to see his take. It seems like Neuromancer has been optioned dozens of times. I remember reading that he originally had trouble getting the book published and wound up loosing the royalties on one edition and that tied up the movie rights.
(This is all vaguely remembered) I think he then optioned it out for a movie on overly generous terms and there was some actual shooting done, but the deal fell through. This tied things up for many more years.
I heard that Gibson did a very good treatment (a sales job for a script) and then wrote a great script and the Hollywood crowd just laughed at the idea of a good writer producing the script for his own novel.

To which I say: WTF?

Rumors
I heard the same thing Arkan mentioned from a tall skinny guy sitting next to me in Wagamama in London.

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
I seem to remember the movie rights are falling back in WG's hands very soon.

Like, a matter of weeks.

Pray with me, brothers

Pray for him to not sell the options again? Seems unlikely.

"Lessee here, I can either risk some of my fans getting worked up over a film that will never be made OR I can eat this year. Hmmm... which will it be...?"*

_{* This may be an exaggeration, but options do, apparently, help pay the bills.}

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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
Rumors
I heard the same thing Arkan mentioned from a tall skinny guy sitting next to me in Wagamama in London.

Ah...

Well, perhaps then his post re: the shifting chain of title and failed starts was an indicator that he isn't going to sell the rights to Peter Hoffman.

There have to be other producers and studios who would pony up good money to buy the rights from Gibson now that he is a two-time best selling author.

Unless Hoffman already bought them before they lapsed.

Colin: An option only gives the owner of said option the exclusive right to buy the rights. They would then have to pay Gibson again when they make the film. It can be, generally, 10% of what the option states they will pay an author when the film is produced.

In that case, selling the option to someone who is ready to make the film would likely make him even more money straight away. And, given that he is now a two time NY Times bestseller he could stand to make quite a bit from an actual produced film, though I don't know that they'd give him points. That's rare for an author to my knowledge.

Maybe if, after the revert to him (and if he doesn't sell them to Hoffman) he'll tell us they're his again. Then again, maybe not.

I wonder what the remote possibilities of writing an adaptation on spec are?

Hmm...

How strange, Fashpo, we must have met the same guy


Colin :

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Pray for him to not sell the options again? Seems unlikely.

My guess :
"That was a close one. Let's never make that mistake ever again."
^^

Colin cites WG:

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Pray for him to not sell the options again? Seems unlikely.

"Lessee here, I can either risk some of my fans getting worked up over a film that will never be made OR I can eat this year. Hmmm... which will it be...?"*

To sell his/her writings is the business of a writer... This is not the point. The point is that the announcements lack substance (budget, cast, schedule, etc) and are not confirmable.

But who knows? Isn't it possible to appear another Robert Rodriguez to film "El Neuromancer" with a budget of US$10.000 and a cast of unknown actors??? LOL

Attack of the Show, on G4, ran the story in their ticker scroll on Jan. 9.

Not that this means anything in particular.

More information.

From Movies.com, related to the Walt Disney Company.

Still obviously speculation.

That site is too TMZ for it's own good.