Yet another novel that shaped my life is being raped into a movie…

Wired has a great story of “unfilmable” movies (see the Watchmen 3 hr DVD release thingy tie in they did there?) and on the list is Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Part way through they link to a Seven Arts press release of old Neury in pre-production with Torque director Joseph Kahn dropping all his rock video projects so he can direct. Much comparison to the Canadian tax write-off Johnny Mnemonic is made (Neuromancer producer Peter Hoffman was a “presenter” for Mnemonic, whatever that means).

Yikes.

Double yikes goes to the news of Hayden Christiansen joining the cast, most likely as Case, the strung out anti-hero hacker.

“Wintermute, please play audio file DarthYellsNOOOO.wav on a continuous loop until my ears bleed.”