Apple TV+ Greenlights Neuromancer Series

<p>Apple TV&plus; will expand its slate of science fiction offerings with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Neuromancer&comma;” a new 10-episode drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by William Gibson&period; It will be created for television by Graham Roland &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dark Winds”&rpar; and JD Dillard &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Devotion&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Outsider&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sleight”&rpar;&period; A co-production between Skydance Television and Anonymous Content&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Neuromancer” will also be produced by Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment&comma; with Roland serving as showrunner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The series will follow a damaged&comma; top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly&comma; a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re incredibly excited to be bringing this iconic property to Apple TV&plus;&comma;” said creators and executive producers Roland and Dillard&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Since we became friends nearly 10 years ago&comma; we’ve looked for something to team up on&comma; so this collaboration marks a dream come true&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;Neuromancer’ has inspired so much of the science fiction that’s come after it and we’re looking forward to bringing television audiences into Gibson’s definitive &OpenCurlyQuote;cyberpunk’ world&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Neuromancer” will be executive produced by Roland and Dillard&comma; alongside David Ellison&comma; Dana Goldberg and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television&semi; Anonymous Content&semi; Drake&comma; Adel &OpenCurlyQuote;Future’ Nur and Jason Shrier for DreamCrew Entertainment&semi; and Zack Hayden and Gibson&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The debut novel by William Gibson&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Neuromancer” has been praised as one of the first and most-respected works within the cyberpunk genre and has received numerous accolades&comma; including the Nebula Award&comma; the Philip K&period; Dick Award and the Hugo Award&period; The novel served as the first book in the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sprawl” trilogy and was followed by &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Count Zero” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mona Lisa Overdrive&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The series marks the latest Apple Original series hailing from Skydance Television following the epic&comma; global-hit saga &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Foundation&comma;” currently in production on its third season&semi; the critically acclaimed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Big Door Prize&comma;” which will soon debut its second season&semi; and the recently announced comedy series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson from creator David West Read&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This also marks the latest project in the longstanding collaboration between Apple TV&plus; and Anonymous Content&period; Recent film and television projects include the highly anticipated upcoming series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Savant” starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain&semi; Taika Waititi’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Time Bandits”&semi; the highly anticipated &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Disclaimer” from Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón&semi; as well as the Golden Globe-nominated film &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Swan Song&comma;” the limited series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey&comma;” Peabody Award-winning series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dickinson” and the limited series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Defending Jacob&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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