Hayden Christensen to Star in Gibson’s Neuromancer Movie

Although I pretty much like every cyberpunk movie I’ve seen (heck, I even liked “Johnny Mnemonic”, and no one likes “Johnny Mnemonic”), I’ve never been too into reading the cyberpunk books from which they were based. The latest adaptation is William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”, and today Joblo has news that Hayden Christensen, late of the “Star Wars” prequels, will be starring in the film as its lead, a hacker name Case.

So what’s “Neuromancer” about?

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway–jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way–and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance–and a cure–for a price….

The film will be directed by music video veteran Joseph Kahn, whose last movie was the motorcycle racing flick “Torque”.