‘Neuromancer’ First Look: Callum Turner Is a Cyberspace Criminal in Teaser for Apple TV Sci-Fi Series
Apple has unveiled the trailer for “Neuromancer,” a sci-fi drama based on the novel by William Gibson, starring Callum Turner as a cyberspace criminal. An...
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- Apple has unveiled the trailer for “Neuromancer,” a sci-fi drama based on the novel by William Gibson, starring Callum Turner as a cyberspace criminal.
- An official plot description teases that 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 ten-episode series was greenlit by Apple TV back in February 2024 and will follow Gibson’s 1984 novel, which won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K.
- That landmark book spanned the Sprawl trilogy, including “Count Zero,” “Mona Lisa Overdrive” and “Burning Chrome.” Popular on Variety Briana Middleton, Mark Strong, Joseph Lee, Peter Sarsgaard and Clémence Poésy all star alongside Turner.
- Turner recently appeared in “Rose of Nevada” with George MacKay.
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Apple has unveiled the trailer for “Neuromancer,” a sci-fi drama based on the novel by William Gibson, starring Callum Turner as a cyberspace criminal. An official plot description teases that 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 ten-episode series was greenlit by Apple TV back in February 2024 and will follow Gibson’s 1984 novel, which won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. That landmark book spanned the Sprawl trilogy, including “Count Zero,” “Mona Lisa Overdrive” and “Burning Chrome.” Popular on Variety Briana Middleton, Mark Strong, Joseph Lee, Peter Sarsgaard and Clémence Poésy all star alongside Turner. Turner recently appeared in “Rose of Nevada” with George MacKay. Turner is also heavily rumored to be in the conversation to play James Bond after Daniel Craig closed out his time as 007 with 2021’s “No Time to Die.” “Neuromancer” is produced by Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content. Anonymous Content and Apple TV previously collaborated on “The Savant,”...