Deadpool Director to Helm Neuromancer Movie

For years, fans have been waiting for a film adaptation of William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, and there have been multiple attempts to get it into the big screen, and now, there's another one planned, and Deadpool director Tim Miller is attached to direct it.

Tim Miller, who helmed the first Deadpool film and then famously dropped out of the sequel, is on board to direct an adaptation of Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel, Deadline reports.

There's still no writer attached for the project but Miller has a lot of time to find one since his plan is to make a Terminator film with James Cameron first, then start working on Neuromancer.

Simon Kinberg, who worked with the Deadpool director and is helming the new X-Men film, is set to produce the cyberpunk film.

This is definitely one of the best Cyberpunk books I've read, and it reminded me a lot of Kill Bill and The Matrix. Hopefully, they won't mess this one up.

Here's the plot description of the novel from Deadline:

Case was one of the best console cowboys until he stole from one of his employers, who in turn damaged his nervous system so that he cannot access cyberspace anymore. Broke and destroying himself, Case is contacted by Molly, a heavily modified razorgirl, to work for a shadowy colonel who needs a cyberspace cowboy for a secret mission. The employer fixes Case's damaged brain, but implants a slow dissolving poison to make sure the cyberspace wiz does his bidding, in attempting to abduct a perverse psychopath who is able to create holograms with the force of his mind.

This project is still on its early stages, so there's a chance that the project will be cancelled.

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