Hollywood has a interracial story with cyberpunk , to say the least — so the news of a flick version of Richard K. Morgan ’s ultra - noir Altered Carbon amaze tight - tracked makes us a bit nervous . So much of what ’s nifty about that book is the acute violence and eldritch sex study … and then there ’s the tenacious torture sequence , which would be toilsome to get right without looking like torture porn . Welove this bookabout a cosmos where people can download their personalities and memories into newly clone ( or rented ) bodies , but could it work as a picture ?
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The moving-picture show rendering is being spearheaded by a new production companionship run by writer James Vanderbilt ( Zodiac , The Amazing Spider - Man , Total Recall ) and Laeta Kalogridis ( Alexander , Shutter Island , the Bionic Woman reboot ) , plus Black Swan manufacturer Brad Fischer . Kalogridis is going to co - write the screenplay with David Goodman .
Kalogridis is a longtime collaborationist with James Cameron , having worked on Avatar as well as the in - development Battle Angel Alita movie , so perhaps she can bring some Cameron - fashion gumption to this picture ? Kalogridis tells Variety :
Altered Carbon is one of the most seminal objet d’art of post - cyberpunk hard science fiction out there — a drear , complex noir account that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable , including the human mind .
Meanwhile , the new production companionship , Mythology , is also launching pic edition of John Bellairs ’ series of supernatural dangerous undertaking novel , begin with The House With a Clock in Its Walls — and they ’ve have Supernatural Almighty Eric Kripke write the screenplay , which seems promise . Also , they ’re collaborating on The Lobotomist , an HBO miniseries about the most prolific lobotomy doctor in chronicle , write by Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles author Dan Thomsen . [ Variety ]
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