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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3982688" data-attributes="member: 32740">Interesting.  I seem to recall back around the time of the abysmal adaptation of Johnny Mnemonic that Gibson had said it was such a horrible experience to watch it happen that he'd never allow it again.  I am glad he'd changed his mind and would really love to see Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive as a trilogy.I am not particularly apprehensive about Christensen (I think he's got the potential and/or the chops - he just needs the right parts and the right directing), but having an "unknown" director does make me leery.  What has me downright quaking in horror is the fact that there is no name mentioned for whose WRITING this.Adapting Gibsons rather singular prose style into an entirely different medium is a CHALLENGING undertaking and unless Gibson is intimately involved in the process here I will assume it to be a train-wreck in progress and will be surprised if it succeeds on any level.  Without a top-notch script NOTHING will save this project.  And then it can still be killed by poor art direction, bad directing, bad acting, bad editing, etc.We can only hope.</blockquote>