Apple TV+ has announced another ambitious adaptation of a multi-award-winning sci-fi novel, as they reveal Graham Roland (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Dark Winds”) and JD Dillard (“Devotion,” “The Outsider,” “Sleight”) will write an adaptation of William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer‘.
The series will follow 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, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.
“We’re incredibly excited to be bringing this iconic property to Apple TV+,” said creators and executive producers Roland and Dillard. “Since we became friends nearly 10 years ago, we’ve looked for something to team up on, so this collaboration marks a dream come true. ‘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 ‘cyberpunk’ world.”
The debut novel by William Gibson, “Neuromancer” has been praised as one of the first and most-respected works within the cyberpunk genre and has received numerous accolades, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Hugo Award. The novel served as the first book in the “Sprawl” trilogy and was followed by “Count Zero” and “Mona Lisa Overdrive.”
The series, which comes from Skydance Television, Anonymous Content and DreamCrew Entertainment, is not Apple’s first foray into ambitious sci-fi. The also have global-hit saga ‘Foundation‘, based on Isaac Asimov’s sprawling space opera and also from Skydance, which is currently in production on its third season. Skydance also produce the critically acclaimed ‘The Big Door Prize’, which will soon debut its second season, and a untitled recently announced comedy series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson from creator David West Read.
Anonymous Content are also no strangers to Apple, creating ‘The Savant’ starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain; Taika Waititi’s upcoming new itteration of ‘Time Bandits’; the highly anticipated ‘Disclaimer’ from Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón; as well as the Golden Globe-nominated film ‘Swan Song’, the limited series ‘The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,’ Peabody Award-winning series ‘Dickinson’ and the limited series ‘Defending Jacob’.
‘Neuromancer’ will be executive produced by Roland and Dillard, 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 Gibson. Roland serves as showrunner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode.
‘Neuromancer‘ does not have a premiere date but will air on Apple TV+ globally. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
