Highlights
- Three more actors have joined the cast of Apple TV+’s highly anticipated adaptation of William Gibson’s groundbreaking sci-fi novel, Neuromancer.
- André De Shields, Marc Menchaca and Max Irons join the impressive previously announced cast anchored by stars Callum Turner and Brianna Middleton.
- Production began in January with a two-week shoot in Japan, but details beyond casting announcements have been shrouded in secrecy.
Neuromancer
Published in 1984, William Gibson’s debut novel is one of the earliest and best-known cyberpunk narratives. The only novel to ever win the triumvirate of the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Hugo Award, Neuromancer follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Henry Dorset Case. Forced into early retirement, Case is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly Millions, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes. Together, they aim to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.
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With the most recent addition of Max Irons, André De Shields and Marc Menchaca, the Necromancer cast composition snaps into focus. At the top of the call sheet are Callum Turner as Case and Brianna Middleton playing Molly. Other major cast members already announced include Joseph Lee, Mark Strong, Cleménce Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Laird and Dane DeHaan.
The Pieces in Play
The “corporate dynasty” mentioned above is the Tessier-Ashpool S.A., an industrial clan organization structured as more of a business than a family. They formed as an alliance between the Tessier and Ashpool families. Peter Sarsgaard plays John Ashpool while Cleménce Poésy is Marie-France Tessier, introduced in the novel as Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier, as she is the third (and most unstable and dangerous) clone of the original Jane Tessier. Max Irons’s role is Jean Tessier Ashpool, presumably a child of this union.
André De Shields will portray Julius Deane, an importer/smuggler who defies aging. A spry and patient 135-year-old old according to the origin novel’s description, Case seeks out Deane for information and advice multiple times. De Shields is a Broadway veteran, earning accolades for his triple-threat performance skills, directing and choreography. On television, he recently appeared as Chubby on the CW’s Katy Keene, as Jack in Netflix’s Uncoupled and in the Netflix feature of tick, tick… BOOM!
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Marc Menchaca’s role as Dixie Flatline, aka “Dix,” one of Case’s hacker mentors, will be one of the major pivot points for fans of the novel. If the production can pull off the translation of Dix’s construct personality while retaining his human relationship with Case, it’ll be one less hurdle to leap in the court of public geek opinion. Menchaca’s previous time on Ozark as Russ Langmore will serve him well in conveying Dix’s “redneck from the Atlanta fringes” vibe. Before Necromancer drops, you’ll get to see him as Red on Dexter: Resurrection this summer.
Tracking the Team
Neuromancer began shooting in January with two weeks in Japan. Presumably, those were Chiba City scenes. The novel also goes to Finland and Istanbul. And space. It’ll be fascinating to see where production sets up next.
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