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Geek Girl Authority
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Welcome to the Chatsubo: Apple TV+'s NEUROMANCER Is Now in Production
Highlights Apple shared a brief teaser for its highly anticipated adaptation of Neuromancer , which you can watch below. Neuromancer The 10-episode first season goes into production on the same day as the publishing anniversary of William Gibson's award-winning sci-fi novel of the same name. Callum Turner leads the cast as Case, a hacker plunged into a world of espionage. Neuromancer Welcome to the Chatsubo, cowboy. Neuromancer is now in production. Apple shared a brief teaser to celebrate the beginning of the production process for the 10-episode first season. Adapted from William Gibson's award-winning sci-fi novel of the same name, July 1 also marks the 41st publishing anniversary. That's right: Neuromancer hit bookshelves on July 1, 1984. RELATED: The Mule Wreaks Havoc in Foundation Season 3 Trailer and New Photos The aforementioned teaser showcases the Chatsubo, a bar in Ninsei of Chiba City. It attracts a bevy of colorful underworld characters, from hackers and dealers to criminals. Ratz, a man with a prosthetic arm, usually tends bar. About the Series Here's a synopsis per Apple: 'BAFTA Award-nominee Callum Turner ( Masters of the Air ) will star in the new 10-episode drama that follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly (played by Briana Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.' RELATED: New TV Shows This Week (June 29 – July 5) The Cast and Crew In addition to Turner as Case and Middleton as Molly, the rest of the Neuromancer main cast includes Joseph Lee, Mark Strong, Cleménce Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Laird, Dane DeHaan, André De Shields, Max Irons and Marc Menchaca. Graham Roland and J.D. Dillard are co-creators, while the former takes on the role of showrunner. Dillard will be at the helm for the pilot episode. Roland and Dillard will also executive produce alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television; Anonymous Content; Drake, Adel 'Future' Nur and Jason Shrier for DreamCrew Entertainment; and Zack Hayden and William Gibson. In Production Neuromancer will premiere on Apple TV+. As of writing, we don't have a release date. Before you go, check out the 'In Production' teaser below. On Location: The Lighterman in Apple TV+'s SLOW HORSES Contact: [email protected] What I do: I'm GGA's Managing Editor, a Senior Contributor, and Press Coordinator. I manage, contribute, and coordinate. Sometimes all at once. Joking aside, I oversee day-to-day operations for GGA, write, edit, and assess interview opportunities/press events. Who I am: Before moving to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, I was born and raised in Amish country, Ohio. No, I am not Amish, even if I sometimes sport a modest bonnet. Bylines in: Tell-Tale TV, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium. Critic: Rotten Tomatoes, CherryPicks, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
CNET
a day ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
Calling All Console Cowboys: Apple TV Plus Just Dropped the First Teaser for 'Neuromancer'
Welcome to the Chatsubo. Say hi to Ratz, the bartender with the pink prosthetic arm. Order your draft Kirin. Mind your own biz. Apple TV Plus just released the first official look at its upcoming science fiction show, Neuromancer, an adaptation of the 1980s William Gibson novel that kicked off the cyberpunk movement. The teaser is only 26 seconds long, and the "action" is less than 10 seconds. We see the inside of a low-ceilinged space lit by a single arched window. A pinball machine flickers to life. One by one, the other lights come on, and a neon sign proclaims "Bar Chatsubo." The Chat, as it's called in the book, is the bar where we first meet our protagonist, Case (played by Callum Turner). Case is a former console cowboy (hacker) who's had his nerves damaged, cutting off his access to cyberspace (a word Gibson coined in the early 1980s). Case's luck turns around when he meets Molly (played by Briana Middleton), an assassin with blades under her fingernails and mirror lenses fused across her eyes. If that sounds a little derivative of Cyberpunk 2077, it's probably the other way around: Neuromancer did it first. The book debuted in 1984, and there have since been many failed attempts to adapt it as a movie or TV show. (It's not exactly easy to visualize Gibson's description of cyberspace: "Bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.") But the ideas in Neuromancer have trickled down through the decades. Its hackers described cyberspace as "the matrix" 15 years before the movie that popularized the phrase. (Trinity in The Matrix is basically the same character as Molly, minus the razorblades.) Case is an addict who can't bear to spend too much time jacked out of cyberspace -- much like how you and I are probably addicted to the internet today. It's been a long time coming, but here it is now: Our first glimpse of what will finally be a fully realized adaptation of Neuromancer. Here's hoping that Apple TV Plus does it justice.
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The ‘Neuromancer' Show Welcomes You Into Its Neon-Lit Dystopia
This is very much an early look—no actors, no plot teases, just a glimpse of a certain key location in William Gibson's cyberpunk tale Neuromancer. But 'near-future dystopia by way of 1984' is captured correctly here, and that bodes very well for the Apple TV+ series that is, as the tin advertises, currently in production. And this isn't just a random drop to increase hype for the show, which does not yet have a release date. Neuromancer was published July 1, 1984. Happy anniversary to Gibson and his influential book, and enjoy this brief tease of what's to come. Apple TV+ is definitely the best-case streaming scenario for this project—need we remind you how much we love its sci-fi content, including the standout Isaac Asimov adaptation Foundation?—and we're dying to see more. Neuromancer will run 10 episodes; it stars Callum Turner and follows 'a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly (played by Briana Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets,' according to an Apple press release. The rest of the cast includes Joseph Lee, Mark Strong, Cleménce Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Laird, Dane DeHaan, André De Shields, Max Irons, and Marc Menchaca. It's created for TV by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Dark Winds) and JD Dillard (Devotion, The Outsider, Sleight). Roland is the showrunner, Dillard is directing the pilot, and they're both among the show's executive producers. What do you think of this first teaser for Neuromancer? Are you intrigued, or is it too short to tell? Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Geek Vibes Nation
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Vibes Nation
‘Ride Or Die' Review - A New Vision Of Love On The Run
There are countless stories about romances on the run, ruined (and enhanced) by crime and violence. Whether you prefer Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, True Romance, Queen & Slim, or Thelma & Louise (the subtext is everything), the history is certainly there. Two young lovers with nothing to lose get thrown into difficult situations that turn ugly. There is a reason that this is a repeated theme in film. In what other situation would we throw caution to the wind and take these kinds of chances? All love can be a kind of madness. But young love? Young love will lead us down the strangest paths imaginable. In Josalynn Smith's debut as a full-length feature director, Ride or Die, she examines this through a very different lens. This is an upfront queer story, no subtext required. Paula (Briana Middleton) is stuck in her hometown, but harbors dreams of directing films in Hollywood. As the film opens, she takes a purchase to the cash register at a clothing store and sees Sloane (Stella Everett), who we later learn was her high school crush. Even this early in the film, the story hinges on this initial interaction. If we don't feel them together, nothing else will matter. But the chemistry between Paula and Sloane is absolutely electric. Sly touches, smirks, and elongated eye contact do the trick within moments. Even if we didn't find out anything else about the pair, we know that the kinetic attraction between them is undoubtedly mutual. The script, from Smith and Alicia Louzoun-Heisler, shines throughout, but especially here. This flirtation leads to a mild bit of law-breaking in the form of Sloane giving Paula her purchase for free. Given the evocative title, we certainly know that this will not be the last law broken, but it shows what we are willing to accept or let slide when someone beautiful offers it to us. But Smith does not simply allow Sloane to be only a pretty face. Despite being the object of Paula's desire, she is shown to have an actual history, reasons for the way she is, and an understandable connection with Paula. Middleton is unquestionably the lead, but both characters have their moments to shine. The scriptwriters also make the smart decision to only give us one familial background story. We get to see just a bit of Paula's difficult relationship with her mother. We only get hints about Sloane, but it is enough. And given that this is a lesbian love story, and one set in the middle of the country, Smith had many choices about how to represent the challenges that the couple would face on the road and within their families. Repeatedly, she chooses subtlety over intensity to the film's advantage. It would have been easy for them to find violence and screaming at every turn, but the consistent quiet judgment they face is even more powerful. Being two women in an unforgiving world is hard enough, adding the intersectionality of being queer, and in Paula's case, Black and not passing as straight, focuses the narrative on a particular struggle that remains mostly untold. The violence they both face and enact throughout the film is both surprising and expected. When you title a movie Ride or Die, we know that at least one in the partnership will become violent, and the other must make a decision to stay with them or run away. But who enacts it and how these things actually occur left me gasping on more than one occasion. But luckily, the film is not simply violent for violence's sake. It also spends time building this relationship and showing us their journey, both emotionally and visually. Cinematographer Arlene Muller never misses a moment, and she has many challenges. Shooting black skin and white skin creates different obstacles, and this is exponentially true when an interracial couple is at the center of the story. She manages this both in light and shadow, creating softness when times are better and harshness when things begin to go awry. When the two are together sexually, Muller and Smith never shy away from either the explicit physicality or the difficulties of sexual relationships. As the two travel across the country towards the west coast, time is taken to represent this with numerous vistas, but it never feels overly extended or unnecessary. There are two shots, one with the two in sunlight and one that takes place in glistening water that will easily stick with viewers long after the credits roll. It does not matter if you have seen stories about criminal lovers on the run before. You have absolutely not seen it like this. Josalynn Smith introduces us to a brand new version, centering people who usually are not, and she opens brand new doors. Her version, along with a beautiful, aware, open performance from Briana Middleton and stunning visuals, makes Ride or Die worth the trip and then some. Ride Or Die held its World Premiere as a part of the U.S. Narrative Competition section of the 2025 Tribeca Festival. Director: Josalynn Smith Screenwriters: Josalynn Smith, Alicia Louzoun-Heisler Rated: NR Runtime: 85m
