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My question is, how do you make Neuromancer almost 25 years after The Matrix, which was built on the precepts of Neuromancer, and not just end up with a road-worn Matrix movie?

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Or even more banally, after Netflix's Altered Carbon, which I've only seen an episode or two of, yet it so easily encapsulates the platonic ideal of what a gritty cyberpunk show should look and feel like, to the point of banality? I'm not even picking on that specific series, it's probably not even the only example of that type of show that's been created in the last decade.

In short, how do you elevate it to more than a second-rate, middling, competent and utterly forgettable adaptation lost among the streams and appealing only to fans of the original work.

Hire people who care as much about the property as Cavill cares about The Witcher.

I think the two are sufficiently different that you could do it well. Just because they share the same genre doesn't mean they're necessarily redundant. Specifically Neuromancer has a very interesting mixture of pop culture and late stage capitalism that I could see being unique. A meditation on extreme wealth inequality and the dehumanizing aspects of capitalism and colonialism could be fascinating. I think any auteur could make this into a unique piece of art. I just question whether that's going to happen here.

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