William Gibson’s modern classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer comes to television, to be streamed on Apple TV+. Watch the trailer.
Previously considered unfilmable, Neuromancer stars Callum Turner as Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist.
The original novel the series is based on was written by Gibson in 1984. His first full length novel, it formed the basis for the Sprawl trilogy, the subsequent installments being by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
Neuromancer is a foundational work of early cyberpunk, although critics differ on whether the novel ignited the genre or if it was lifted by its inevitable rise. Gibson’s novel also defined the major conventions and terminology of the genre—cyberspace, jacking in, and Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics (ICE). Critics discuss the novel in the historical context of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by conservatism, deregulation, and free-market economics. We see an echo between those times and the times we now live in. All this serves to make Neuromancer‘s thematics current and relevant.
Neuromancer remains the first and only novel to win all three of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the Philip K. Dick Award. It has been regarded as a classic work of the cyberpunk genre and, in 2005, was named one of Time’s All-Time 100 Novels.
Neuromancer is a ten episode series, created by J.D. Dillard, with Graham Roland as showrunner, and both of them as executive producers. Callum Turner plays case. Briana Middleton is Molly. The whole thing launches on Apple TV+ on January 22, 2027.
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