Apple TV+ announced today that it has picked up a 10-episode drama series based on Neuromancer, William Gibson’s award-winning novel of the same name.
The series will be created for television by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Dark Winds) and JD Dillard (Devotion, The Outsider).
Roland will serve as showrunner, and Dillard will direct the pilot episode.
Neuromancer 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 Roland and Dillard in a joint statement. “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.”
Gibson’s, 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.
Discussing his involvement in the project over social media, Gibson commented on X:
“I’m not going to be answering many questions here about Apple TV’s adaptation of Neuromancer. I’ll have to be answering too many elsewhere, and doing my part on the production. So I thought I’d try to describe that, my part. I answer to showrunner’s and director’s questions about the source material. I read drafts and make suggestions. And that’s it, really, though my previous experience has been that winds up being quite a lot of work in itself. I don’t have veto power. The showrunner and director do, because the adaptation’s their creation, not mine. A novel is a solitary creation. An adaptation is a fundamentally collaborative creation, so first of all isn’t going to “be the book.” Particularly not the one you saw behind your forehead when you read the book, because that one is yours alone. So for now let’s leave it at that.”
Neuromancer joins a series of high profile sci-fi and fantasy adaptations and original prestige dramas from AppleTV+ including Severance, Foundation, Silo, and Constellation.