EXCLUSIVE: Briana Middleton (Sharper) has been tapped because the co-lead reverse Callum Turner in Neuromancer, Apple TV+‘s new sci-fi drama based mostly on the award-winning novel by William Gibson.
Created for tv by Graham Roland and JD Dillard, Neuromancer follows a broken, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Turner) who’s thrust into an internet of digital espionage and excessive stakes crime together with his companion Molly (Middleton), a razor-girl murderer with mirrored eyes, aiming to tug a heist on a company dynasty with untold secrets and techniques.
A co-production between Skydance Tv, Nameless Content material and Apple Studios, Neuromancer can even be produced by Drake’s DreamCrew Leisure, with Roland serving as showrunner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode.
Roland and Dillard government produce alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance Tv; Nameless Content material; Drake, Adel ‘Future’ Nur and Jason Shrier for DreamCrew Leisure; Zack Hayden and, Gibson.
Neuromancer marks the newest Middleton’s newest collaboration with Apple TV+ following her starring position within the Apple Unique Movies’ Sharper and her casting because the lead of the Sam Esmail’s high-profile Metropolis collection, which in the end didn’t transfer ahead. (Turner additionally has been an Apple TV+ common, coming off the streamer’s WWII restricted collection Masters Of the Air.)
The debut novel by William Gibson, Neuromancer has been a standout within the cyberpunk style honored with the Nebula Award, the Philip Ok. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was the primary guide within the Sprawl trilogy and was adopted by Rely Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Middleton, whose credit additionally embrace the George Clooney film The Tender Bar and being solid as the feminine lead in Disney+’s proposed Magnificence and the Beast prequel collection, is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Leisure Companions.
