![]() He did, however, write the screen adaptation of his short story Johnny Mnemonic. ![]() Gibson’s early novels and short stories helped to popularize the cyberpunk aesthetic that Hollywood has happily adopted for its grungier science fiction films, but Gibson himself hasn’t had much success at the movies - he wrote an early, unused draft for Alien 3, and adaptations of his best-known novel Neuromancer seem to be constantly drifting in and out of development. One is relatively close to our present, the other is several decades further along, after society has collapsed. The Peripheral takes place in two different futures, which are mysteriously connected through a virtual reality game. Most famously, it’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a Lord of the Rings prequel series, but it’s also developing adaptations of science fiction classics Ringworld and Snow Crash. Smith writing and executive producing, and Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (creators of the HBO remake of Westworld) also signed on as executive producers.Īmazon seems to have shifted much of its original TV strategy away from critically-acclaimed-but-niche shows and toward titles that have the potential to become bigger hits. ![]() ![]() ![]() Variety reports the series is being considered for a straight-to-series order, with Scott B. Amazon is developing a series based on William Gibson’s science fiction novel The Peripheral. ![]()
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