[spillguard]

The biggest obstacle stopping Neuromancer from being a viable TV show, IMO, is the lack of cohesion between chapters - readers are frequently dumped into the middle of entirely different circumstances than the previous chapter, just as they were maybe getting a grip on what was going on. And honestly, it kind of works! The pacing would be far too slow if characters stopped every five minutes to explain what was going on for the audience's sake. Hypothetically this could work in an episodic format, but will it be signed off on by conservative showrunners/execs? I'd guess no, but will remain cautiously optimistic.

[alfalfasprout]

I think the trick to a tv adaptation is to not restrict oneself to a strict adaptation of the book but rather to reorder things, etc. to allow for character development. The visual medium also leaves a lot of things to be inferred by viewers without going into excruciating detail to explain things.

I could see it also working well in episodic format with episodes focusing on individual characters.