It's unusual that you can boast of truly orginal film concepts heading to cinema, but with adaptation's of Philip K. Dick's
Ubick and William Gibson's
Neuromancer, we could be in for a very special treat.
The fact that
Ubick has being picked up by, no other, than
Eternal Sunshine's Michel Gondry, while the script for
Neuromancer has being citied as "one of the best adaptation's he's ever read" by the author of the book himself (the one, usually, nutoriously hard to impress!), our theory of 'amazing-new-orginal-films-you-just-must-get-excited-about', has some credibility.
Each has it's own reasons for making us jump up and screech loud noises in anticipation.
Neroumancer offers us a book that defined the cyberpunk genre, with noir-esque plots surrounding hackers, a.i., post-human modification, drugs, and sinister corporations.
Ubick, meanwhile, treads on similar potentially-classic-sci-fi lines. In this case though we are focused on the team of men who age rapidly while the world of corporate spies and the like around them goes backwards. Nothing if not original.
Either way, two very interesting concepts, and considering they are both staying away from the studios these are definately a couple of films to keep an eye on. Gondry's script (who is surely the only person who could write about time running backwards while people age quickly and make it fit) is due very soon. Exciting times!
Watch this space.
