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First Poster for Joseph Kahn’s NEUROMANCER
Posted by Todd Brown at 6:30am.
Posted in Film News , Sci-Fi & Fantasy, USA & Canada.
I don’t normally do posts dedicated purely to announcing poster art. I just don’t generally see the point, and would rather focus on stuff from the films themselves rather than the marketing materials. But I’m making an exception, here. This is after all the upcoming adaptation of Neuromancer, a true classic of the scifi world whose influence it would be very hard to overstate and a book that many - myself included - consider to be pretty much unfilmable, though I’m certainly curious to see what will happen. The casting of Hayden Christensen in the lead gives me pause, though his general sleepiness may actually suit the character pretty well, as does the presence of Joseph Kahn in the director’s chair as Kahn hasn’t really shown anything to indicate he can handle this sort of project yet. But, man ... that poster art is incredible and it fills me with all sorts of happy feelings. If nothing else they certainly understand the aesthetic ...
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Kurt Halfyard 08/01/2008 @ 6:56am
“The casting of Hayden Christensen in the lead gives me pause”
- The under-fucking-statement of the year. Ouch. I weep.
weevil 08/01/2008 @ 8:44am
Just tragic. That someone made a marginally artsy poster that has nothing to do with the movie does little to hide the enormous cinematic misstep that is being taken with this material. Expect any intelligence and life to be drained out of the book and a flashy music video husk of a generic SF action movie left in its place. Also, expect a ‘rockin’ soundtrack by Linkin’ Park, or whatever group of hairy knuckledraggers Hollywood has pooped out this week.
Airchinapilot 08/01/2008 @ 9:33am
Hayden Christensen is actually a good actor—if you’ve seen him in Shattered Glass. But I’m not convinced this is good casting.
GAPS 08/01/2008 @ 10:09am
Looks like a book cover! Which is sort of interesting, I guess…
But ho! What’s this?
“They’ve changed Case’s name to Cage? Hayden Christensen is the star too? I don’t have a good feeling about this.” says a commenter on that site you linked to.
If we are seeing substantial changes like this before even really receiving any real word on the project, then things don’t look like clear weather on horizon.
Zombiwolf 08/01/2008 @ 10:48am
Did William Gibson write the screenplay?
heatbag 08/01/2008 @ 11:32am
Wait???
How did Linkin Park get into the director’s seat for Neuromancer?
I can’t even begin to imagine a chain of events that would have this as its outcome.
Mike 08/01/2008 @ 11:56am
So he’s directed a bunch of Britney Spears videos, and Torque.
Todd Brown 08/01/2008 @ 12:51pm
Hahn’s also done a short film called The Seed that’s actually quite good.
Mike 08/01/2008 @ 1:11pm
Yeah, but this isn’t Joseph Hahn, it’s Joseph Kahn.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0994538/
ChevalierAguila 08/01/2008 @ 4:38pm
Holy shit, this film is going to be one epic disaster. Such a shame to waste a cool poster in a film like this one.
Simon Abrams 08/01/2008 @ 5:13pm
I was upset when I realized that you said Joseph Kahn, not Cedric Kahn.
I love Cedric Kahn’s RED LIGHTS.
I have nothing to say about Joseph Kahn that hasn’t or probably won’t be said in this thread.
Also, Hayden Christensen was good in SHATTERED GLASS because he had good material. He’s no major talent but he can do a decent job with a good script.
six string 08/01/2008 @ 8:15pm
The Japanese should have made this film. Oshii for starters.
Rodney Perkins 08/01/2008 @ 9:46pm
I think the salient question is whether it even matters anymore. Specifically, Neuromancer has been mined so much in film and popular culture that it will probably seem entirely familiar and even mundane now. Reality has caught up with it.
Ichi-The-Killer 08/30/2008 @ 11:35pm
I like the poster but the casting and director dont please me at all.