Callum Turner

Apple is really going heavy on quality sci fi, love to see it. More on reddit.com

Masters of the Air reunion with him as Bond and Austin Butler as Felix Leiter? More on reddit.com

I hadn't considered Turner, but I think he'd be a really savvy pick. I don't think height should really be a factor since there are plenty of ways to disguise an actor's height in the final product (you'd never know Tom Cruise is only 5'7 from the Mission: Impossible movies) but he was very good in Masters of the Air and checks all the necessary boxes. More on reddit.com

I hope this is done right. For anyone new to the genre, this book is arguably the biggest inspiration for a significant amount of the science fiction themes and tropes that are basically commonplace today, most notably the idea that humans can directly interface with machines and software. The word "cyberspace" first appeared in this book. It is one of the pillars of "cyberpunk" literature and, with its 1984 release, was light years ahead of its time. It deserves a serious team of writers and showrunners. My worry is that it is so far removed from its original release that an unfamiliar audience will see a lot of it as "generic," not realizing that so much of what they're used to in modern sci-fi originated with Neuromancer in the first place. More on reddit.com