I said this in another post but I’ll repeat it here
One of two things will happen.
The show runners will stay true to the source material and a bunch of people will complain that it isn’t original and Cyberpunk 2077/Bladerunner/[insert franchise here]* did it first. Completely unaware that Neuromancer did it first.
Or
The show runners will use Neuromancer as “inspiration” and write their own story, to better (Foundation) or worse (Ring of Power) results. Either way, fans of the original work will complain that the show isn’t faithful to the source.
tl;dr: No matter what they do, someone will be vocally upset
ETA:
*Ghost in the Shell, I couldn’t think of it earlier
To be fair, the Sprawl and Blade Runner did it more or less at the same time (I think it was Burning Chrome, Blade Runner, Neuromancer, but it doesn’t really matter).
They sort of condensed something that was floating in the zeitgeist, the collective subconscious, of the late seventies / early eighties, and managed to completely independently create stories that could almost, aesthetically and by their philosophy, be set on the same world.
(And, let’s be fair to Mike Pondsmith too, his game, while published a bit later, was quite genre-defining, too, even if it had been clearly influenced by the former.)
I said this in another post but I’ll repeat it here
One of two things will happen.
The show runners will stay true to the source material and a bunch of people will complain that it isn’t original and Cyberpunk 2077/Bladerunner/[insert franchise here]* did it first. Completely unaware that Neuromancer did it first.
Or
The show runners will use Neuromancer as “inspiration” and write their own story, to better (Foundation) or worse (Ring of Power) results. Either way, fans of the original work will complain that the show isn’t faithful to the source.
tl;dr: No matter what they do, someone will be vocally upset
ETA: *Ghost in the Shell, I couldn’t think of it earlier
Mostly youtubers with clickbait thumbnails, and people without intelligence of their own blindly parroting what the clickbait tells them to.
To be fair, the Sprawl and Blade Runner did it more or less at the same time (I think it was Burning Chrome, Blade Runner, Neuromancer, but it doesn’t really matter).
They sort of condensed something that was floating in the zeitgeist, the collective subconscious, of the late seventies / early eighties, and managed to completely independently create stories that could almost, aesthetically and by their philosophy, be set on the same world.
(And, let’s be fair to Mike Pondsmith too, his game, while published a bit later, was quite genre-defining, too, even if it had been clearly influenced by the former.)