“Johnny Mnemonic” is probably the film that is closest to Gibson’s work when it comes to visual style and structure. Let’s take a look at a couple of productions that in some way give us the “Neuromancer” experience we still await. It doesn’t mean that “Neuromancer” isn’t living through other movies inspired by it or the ones sharing similar imagery. There were many attempts to create such a film, but they all failed in early stages. It’s such a pity this fundamental work is still without a Hollywood film adaptation. It’s a truly visionary piece, concentrating on topics like virtual reality, hacking, a global network, megacorporations, artificial intelligence, advanced globalization, and many more. It’s too bad that another sci-fi milestone, William Gibson’s cyberpunk trademark novel “Neuromancer”, hasn’t landed onscreen to this day. Of course, David Lynch’s version is considered a big disappointment, but regardless, one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written got its own feature film. Here are 7 classic works of science fiction that helped to create the original program of The Matrix.Jodorowsky’s “Dune”, the monumental groundbreaking motion picture never made, wasn’t the end of the “Dune” adaptation project. Famously, the Wachowskis required all cast members to read Jean Baudrillard's philosophy text Simulacra and Simulation so that they would get what the movie was all about.īut, other than philosophy and religion, what were the specific sci-fi stories that had a direct or indirect influence on the Wachowskis when they crafted The Matrix in the first place? In fact, part of what makes The Matrix so enduring is that it's kind of a potpourri of all kinds of sci-fi. When The Matrix hit theaters in 1999, it was an aesthetically groundbreaking feat, but that doesn't exactly mean the movie was a new science fiction concept. Not only is the original 1999 film enjoying a brief theatrical re-release, but the recent news that a fourth Matrix film from Lana Wachowski is happening, and that Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are in it, is all enough to make you wonder if you're not living in simulation and that, really, it is still 1999. After 20 years, there's suddenly never been a better time to get into the cyberpunk world of The Matrix.