WhileTim Millerdropping out of directingDeadpool 2was a pretty major bummer, the filmmaker seems to be doing just fine as he’s added another promising project to his docket. Per Deadline, Miller has signed on to direct the long-in-the-works adaptation of the 1986William GibsonnovelNeuromancerat 20th Century Fox. Moreover, he’ll be reteaming withDeadpoolproducerSimon Kinbergon the project.
Neuromanceroffers plenty of visual potential for Miller, and the synopsis for the book is as follows:
Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
When Miller exitedDeadpool 2, Fox said it would verify to find a new project to develop with Miller and his Blur Studios from the ground up, so here’s the studio making good on its promise. No writer has been set just yet, but this is an adaptation that’s been in the works for years—Joseph Kahn(Torque) was attached to direct back in 2008, andVincenzo Natali(Splice) signed on after that. Given Miller’s VFX background, one imagines his vision for a cyberpunk sci-fi epic might be pretty incredible.
But this probably won’t be Miller’s next project. He’s currently hard at work developinga newTerminatorrebootwith Skydance’sDavid EllisonandJames Cameron, who gets the domestic rights to the franchise back in 2018. The idea is to pull the trigger once those rights revert, with production aiming to start next spring. A writers room has been assembled to find the best way to approach a newTerminatormovie, but Miller is attached to direct and this looks very much like it’ll be his next film. Although it’s nice to know he’s also developingNeuromancerat the same time, not to mention an adaptation of theDaniel SuareznovelInflux.Miller’s got plenty of irons in the fire.
