JoBlo.com sources report that Hayden Christensen (Jumper, Star Wars: Episodes II & III) will star in Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson’s 1994 novel. He will play Case, the former hacker at the center of the story. The site goes on to say:
A description of the book can be read here at William Gibson’s official website.
Joseph Kahn (TORQUE) is directing the film, which is essentially set up as an indie film with a big budget. It is not set up at a studio but still carries an impressive $70 million budget.
Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway–jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way–and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance–and a cure–for a price…
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