I feel like the window of opportunity for a Neuromancer film has closed... so many of the tropes that it invented have now become clichés that at this point the film would just feel stale. That's what happened with the Ghost in the Shell movie and Neuromancer would have it even worse.

Nah, the original Ghost in the Shell movie still feels fresh. What happened to the Ghost in the Shell movie, was a mixture of whitewashing, script butchering, and plain-old bad direction, etc. Not to mention that it was "reinventing" something that already existed, in a sub-standard way.

An adaptation of Pattern Recognition is supposedly in the works.

I've always been a big fan of Gibson penned Johnny Mnemonic, which, if you can get past the bad acting and wooden dialogue, has plenty of trademark Gibson cyberpunk tropes.

Actually, there is also a film adaptation of New Rose Hotel, which is in the same setting as Johnny Mnemonic and the Sprawl trilogy.

[1] http://imdb.com/title/tt0133122/

Yep!

With Christopher Walken, no less--it's one of my favorite obscure gems of the cyberpunk film genre.

It's just going to look exactly like Blade Runner [1] :)

[1] http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_01_01_archive.as...

I agree, and I would also like to see something from the Shadow World rpg realm. I think movie technology has progressed to the point where a really cool adaptation could be done.

I'm thinking you meant Shadowrun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun ) and not Shadow World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_World_(role_playing_gam... ). I'm not familiar with the latter, but the description of 'high-fantasy' suggests to me that you meant the former.

That said, the Shadowrun universe is certainly an interesting mashup of magic and technology, and the fact that it exists outside of a particular story or stories seems like it would lend itself to interpretation and exploration beyond that of an adaptation of a static tale.

The BBC produced a radio drama a number of years ago. I don't have a good source for it now, though.