Shoehorning the novel’s intricate framework into a two-hour running time posed an additional challenge. Namely, studios weren’t exactly scrambling to bankroll an R-rated, thematically complex sci-fi film not tied to an existing franchise. While the author was immediately sold, Kalogridis encountered a sizable roadblock when trying to get the drama (a co-production between David Ellison’s Skydance Media and her own Mythology Entertainment) set up. After the studio’s rights to the title lapsed, Kalogridis dialed up Morgan to pitch him on her “hard R-rated” vision for the adaptation. “The edict at was to make a PG-13 movie out of it, and I was just like, dude, I have no idea how you do that based on the source material,” Kalogridis tells The Hollywood Reporter.Ĭlearly, Warners didn’t either. Like any true science-fiction fan, she also knew that doing it halfway wasn’t going to cut it. For Kalogridis, the book’s premise of a world where human consciousness has been digitized - thereby allowing it to be transferred from body to body - represented a world of possibility in the grand cyberpunk tradition of William Gibson and Philip K.
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