Callum Turner to star in Apple’s Neuromancer
David Farnor | On 24, Apr 2024
Callum Turner will star in Apple TV+’s Neuromancer.
The series is based on William Gibson’s sci-fi novel 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.
The project was announced earlier this year. Now, Deadline reports that Apple has found its star, with Callum Turner joining the cast.
Turner, who was nominated for a BAFTA for the BBC series The Capture, was most recently seen in The Boys in the Boat and in Apple’s own Masters of the Air. In that series, he played Major John “Bucky” Egan.
The 10-part drama will be created by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Dark Winds) and JD Dillard (Devotion, The Outsider, Sleight).
Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s Neuromancer
2nd March 2024
Apple TV+ is bringing William Gibson’s Neuromancer to the screen.
Gibson is no stranger to TV adaptations of his work, with Amazon adapting his tech dystopian thriller The Peripheral. Although that was cancelled after one season, Gibson’s debut novel is now on the way to Apple TV+.
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.
The 10-part drama will be created by Graham Roland (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Dark Winds”) and JD Dillard (“Devotion,” “The Outsider,” “Sleight”). A co-production between Skydance Television and Anonymous Content, “Neuromancer” will also be produced by Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment, with Roland serving as showrunner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode.
“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.”
“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.
The book has 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, which gives Apple the potential to build a franchise – and it will certainly have a formidable universe of sci-fi franchises to keep it company.
Apple TV+ is currently in production on the third season of the epic saga Foundation, which also hails from Skydance Television. Other Apple TV+ sci-fi successes include Silo, Invasion, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Severance, Constellation and For All Mankind.