Apple TV+'s Neuromancer finally gets a trailer after 40 years of failed adaptations

Apple TV+ dropped the first trailer for Neuromancer at San Diego Comic-Con, finally bringing William Gibson's long-untouchable cyberpunk novel to screen after more than four decades of failed attempts. The series arrives in January 2027.

Callum Turner, known from Green Room and Fantastic Beasts, plays disgraced hacker Case — a man whose nervous system was burned out by the Yakuza and who gets dragged back into cyberspace for a high-stakes heist by ex-military operator Armitage, played by Mark Strong, and street samurai Molly Millions, played by Briana Middleton. The show is led by Jack Ryan showrunner Graham Roland and Sleight director JD Dillard. The trailer suggests a visual style that leans into cyberpunk aesthetics without drowning entirely in neon.

Neuromancer, Gibson's 1984 debut novel, essentially codified the cyberpunk genre — coining the term "cyberspace" and sketching out a vision of networked dystopia that influenced everything from The Matrix to Ghost in the Shell. The "unfilmable" label stuck for good reason: Cube director Vincenzo Natali announced his own adaptation in 2010, but it never moved past concept art. Before that, the closest thing to a screen adaptation was the 1995 Keanu Reeves film Johnny Mnemonic, based on a Gibson short story from the same universe. The most faithful adaptations remained a surprisingly solid 1988 Interplay video game and a BBC Radio dramatization.

With the trailer now public and a January 2027 date locked in, attention turns to whether the show can actually crack what so many productions couldn't. Wikipedia lists Drake as an executive producer, which the source notes is fitting given that cyberpunk as a genre owes a significant debt to Canadian writers.