![]() ![]() But the whiz bang gizmos of Gibson’s fiction are only part of the show’s appeal. Any fan of his work couldn’t help but be pessimistic about this new show.īut The Peripheral achieves the seemingly impossible: they’ve taken the image Gibson’s prose paints in the minds of his readers and made it live and breathe on screen. Abel Ferrara adapted Gibson’s ‘New Rose Hotel’ short story, but he ran out of money before he finished the film and spliced old footage into a sketchy flashback to finish the movie. Johnny Mnemonic, which Gibson worked on with director/artist Robert Longo was supposed to be a weird art house film, but Keanu Reeves’ Speed fame hit during filming and Sony stepped in and botched the production. Gibson hasn’t fared well in screen adaptations. ![]() The result is the kind of direct page-to-image interface Gibson might have conjured in one of his novels. He says he’s only on episode two, which means, for once, his fans are ahead of him in the timeline. Amazon adapted the novel with the talents of novelist Scott Smith (A Simple Plan, The Ruins), Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (Westworld) and visionary director Vincenzo Natali. William Gibson watches the manifestation of his own sci-fi novel, The Peripheral, on a secure site he must log into through his iPad. ![]()
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