The peripheral book william gibson6/27/2023 WIRED talked to Joy and Nolan about digitally creating “giga-size” carbon collectors, finding human connection amid all the tech, and the joy of a well thought-out set of rules. To do it, the pair-already experts at crafting future dystopias as creators of HBO’s *Westworld-*worked with showrunner Scott Smith to reframe the story for the show and craft props and sets that nodded to both the future and the present. Not enough dystopia for you? The Peripheral also features behemoth sculptural air cleaners hovering over a staggeringly empty future version of London, just in case you weren’t freaked out enough already.Īs with all things Gibson, the vision in The Peripheral was meticulously crafted-a blessing for readers, but a challenge for executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan to translate to the screen. The series is rife with outlandish inventions, brutal fights, and faceless cyborgs, plus local no-goods, hints of romance, and even some good old-fashioned drone warfare. She’s been enlisted by her cyber GI brother to test some new mystery tech, and the pair quickly realize they’ve become embroiled in a thriller for the ages. If The Peripheral is to be believed, we’re all pretty much doomed.īased on the William Gibson novel of the same name, the new Amazon series finds Flynne, a young computer-savvy woman played by Chloë Grace Moretz, unwittingly bouncing between the bleak near-future and the even bleaker distant future.
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