Fans have been getting snippets about Apple TV’s Neuromancer series for a while now. San Diego Comic-Con finally brought not only a first teaser, but also welcomed co-creator and showrunner Graham Rowland to the Hall H stage to shed a little more light on the William Gibson adaptation.
Star Callum Turner also beamed in a message, in true cyberpunk style. “We’ve been building something special with Neuromancer,” he said. “A world our dear William Gibson imagined in 1984. He didn’t just give us cyberspace; he helped define the entire cyberpunk genre.” Rowland talked more about that in his quick appearance during Apple TV’s first-ever Hall H presentation. “Forty-two years ago, this book felt like pure science fiction. And, you know, Gibson famously coined the term ‘cyberspace’ to describe a digital world where people in the book go to escape and to interact with, and he did all this before the internet existed,” said Rowland. “He wrote about the collision of artificial intelligence and human intelligence before artificial intelligence existed. Now we’re living in a world 42 years later, where these things are part of all of our everyday lives, so it felt like an appropriate time for us to revisit the text and to put it in a new light now that these things were actually here.” Turner plays the book’s protagonist, a super-hacker with a troubled past named Case who gets pulled into a very tangled data heist. As Rowland explained, like many of the cast and crew who worked on Neuromancer, Turner came into the project already a big fan of the book.
