my emotions yanked like a yo-yo

[rone]

I really liked Fearless, and i wanted to see what else Peter Weir had done lately, so i click on his name and see Pattern Recognition... YES!  Then i click on the message titled "Willaim Gibson speaks" [sic]:

Willaim Gibson just (Sunday, May 20, 2007) posted this on his blog re: PR. After a discussion of the possibility of a Neuormancer movie, he said-

"I *do* believe, though, that Peter Weir will not be going forward with Pattern Recognition. That is one utterly solid little factoid of film news, alas."

ARGH.  Now i wonder if the movie's dead, or worse (say, some pinhead like Chris Columbus will be chosen to replace Weir).

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The world of Neuromancer already seems like a quaint retrofuturistic vision now. I wonder what they'd do to update it.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

DON'T SAY THESE THINGS

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

He also did "Gallipoli" and "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," both of which were good.

Coincidentally, yesterday someone gave me a lead on a good movie called "Picnic at Hanging Rock," a 1975 movie Weir did based on a '60s book which was based on a true event in 1900 when the students of an English Girls School went on a picnic and a number of them disappeared mysteriously, but left their clothes behind. (Apparently there wasn't any swimming nearby, which discounts that obvious suggesting.) So I'm tracking down that movie.

The conversation was about how Australia's more successful movies tend to include a large percentage that're based on real-life tragedies-- "Picnic at Hanging Rock," "A Cry in the Dark," and "Jindabyne" came to mind.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

As long as "Neuromancer" never, ever actually gets made, it's all gravy.