Intervista a William Gibson (or. The Matrix Preloaded - William Gibson's Original Vision, by MTV)

Hadakaar — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:38:51 +0100

by Kurt Loder

I had long assumed that William Gibson was pulling in fat and frequent checks from the Wachowski brothers.
After all, their "Matrix" movies the marvelous original; the oddly not-great "Reloaded"; and the eagerly-awaited-anyway "Revolutions," due out November 5 may draw upon Japanese anime and Hong Kong kung-fu features for their action style, but some of the films' key concepts (and at least one character) seem clearly borrowed from Gibson's celebrated "Sprawl" novels: "Neuromancer" (1984), "Count Zero" (1986) and "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (1988). Gibson began publishing in small science-fiction magazines in 1977. Some of his early stories, like "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic" (made into a 1995 movie starring ... Keanu Reeves), were already set in the Sprawl, a grim, post-apocalyptic urban wasteland stretching from Boston to Atlanta (a place similar in tone to the exotically squalid future-world created by film director Ridley Scott in his 1982 SF classic, "Blade Runner").

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