Editing Chris Cunningham (section)

=== ''Neuromancer'' ===
In an August 1999 ''[[Spike Magazine]]'' interview, cyberpunk author [[William Gibson]] stated "He (Chris) was brought to my attention by someone else. We were told, third-hand, that he was extremely wary of the Hollywood process, and wouldn't return calls. But someone else told us that ''[[Neuromancer]]'' had been his ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'', that he'd read it when he was a kid. I went to London and we met." Gibson is also quoted in the article as saying "Chris is my own 100 percent personal choice...My only choice. The only person I've met who I thought might have a hope in hell of doing it right. I went back to see him in London just after he'd finished [[All Is Full of Love|the Bjork video]], and I sat on a couch beside this dead sex little Bjork robot, except it was wearing [[Aphex Twin]]'s head. We talked."<ref>{{cite web |date=1999-02-22 |title=William Gibson : All Tomorrow's Parties : Waiting for the Man |url=http://www.spikemagazine.com/0899williamgibson.php |access-date=2009-08-30 |work=Spikemagazine.com}}</ref>

In 2000, Cunningham and William Gibson began work on the script for Gibson's 1984 novel ''[[Neuromancer]]''. However, because ''Neuromancer'' was due to be a big budget studio film, it is rumoured that Cunningham pulled out due to being a first time director without final cut approval.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 March 2013 |title=Celebrity Grave {{!}} Chris Cunningham's Neuromancer |url=http://jesseyules.com/ideagrave/2013/3/7/celebrity-grave-chris-cunninghams-neuromancer |access-date=2020-04-07 |website=JESSE YULES FILM |language=en-US}}</ref> He also felt that too much of the original book's ideas had been cannibalised by other recent films.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Leggott |first=James |date=2016-04-01 |title=Come to Daddy? Claiming Chris Cunningham for British Art Cinema |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0311 |journal=Journal of British Cinema and Television |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=243–261 |doi=10.3366/jbctv.2016.0311 |issn=1743-4521}}</ref>