Is William Gibsons Neuromancer too vast for the big screen?
| Week in geek 14 May 2010 8:53 AM, PDT | The Guardian – Film News | See recent The Guardian – Film News news » Vincenzo Natali thinks not – and the director who gave us the cult sci-fi brainteaser Cube is determined to prove it “If it can be imagined, it can be filmed,” is a quote often attributed to Stanley Kubrick. In recent years, film-makers have proved him both right and wrong. Last year, I felt Zack Snyder made a more than decent bash of bringing the dense and multi-stranded Watchmen to the big screen, while in the past decade we’ve even seen The Lord of the Rings, once considered too long and flowery for Hollywood, turned into a blockbuster trilogy by Peter Jackson. On the other hand, critical reaction to Tom Tykwer’s 2006 adaptation of the decidedly unfilmic Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was pretty mixed, and neither Joseph Strick’s 1967 attempt, nor Sean Walsh’s Bloom in 2004 really got under the skin of James Joyce’s Ulysses, surely the ultimate unfilmable novel.
