The William Gibson fonds at the University of British Columbia Archives (Vancouver) has an impressive collection of documents on the development and the entire production:
https://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/wgibs.pdf18-2 Johnny Mnemonic: based on the story by William Gibson, written by Victoria
Homburg & Robert Longo - bound 27 February 1990
- “third draft”
18-3 Johnny Mnemonic: Revision of 2nd draft - MSS 27 January 1991
- annotated
18-4 Johnny Mnemonic – screenplay by William Gibson 22 July 1991
18-5 Johnny Mnemonic – screenplay by William Gibson – Revised Draft 26
January 1992
- annotated
18-6 Mnemonic Script – MSS January 1992 [found in box]
- two versions
- annotated
18-7 Johnny Mnemonic: A Very Technical Boy 10 November 1993
18-8 Johnny Mnemonic – by William Gibson - bound 29 November 1993
- annotated
18-9 [Johnny Mnemonic] – Shooting Script 31 January 1994
- no title page
18-10 Johnny Mnemonic By William Gibson January-February 1994
- on cover hand-written “On-set working copy 28 Feb 94”
BOX 19
19-1 [Johnny Mnemonic – show book] [n.d.]
- bound volume with pre-production work sketches – cover shows poster
mock-up with Val Kilmer in lead instead of Keanu Reeves
19-2 Johnny Mnemonic storyboards 1993-94
19-3 [Johnny Mnemonic – Set blueprints] January-February 1994
19-4 [Johnny Mnemonic Productions] 29 March 1994
- faxed sketches of animated story elements for movie, from Trisha Papas
19-5 Johnny Mnemonic – draft “crawl” – MSS [n.d.]
- draft narration (“crawl”), and first pages of screenplay
19-6 Notes for Robert Longo on an animate sequence in Johnny Mnemonic (film) –
MSS June 1994
19-7 [Johnny Mnemonic – notes and correspondence] 1994 [found loose]
- assorted written notes, print-outs, and fax documents, regarding script
revisions and other production matters – including a faxed letter from Bono
of U2
- includes photocopies of original thermal fax printouts
19-8 [Notes for Johnny Mnemonic script] [n.d.] [found loose]
- notes by Gibson, Chris Lee, and Robert (Longo?)
- includes photocopies of original thermal fax printouts
19-9 [Storyboard sketches] 13 September 1993 [found loose]
19-10 [Johnny Mnemonic – script notes and revisions] 1994 [found loose]
19-11 [Johnny Mnemonic – script notes and revisions] 1994 [found loose]
- photocopies of original thermal fax printouts
19-12 [Notes for Johnny Mnemonic script] 1994 [found loose]
19-13 Johnny Mnemonic recruited audience survey – report 3 November 1994
19-14 Johnny Mnemonic press package May 1995
- includes press information, production stills, and memorabilia
19-15 [Johnny Mnemonic – Alliance Productions press kit] May 1995
BOX 20
20-1 [Johnny Mnemonic – press information] [1995?]
20-2 William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic 1996
- book, includes script for movie and original short story
- autographed by William Gibson
Johnny Mnemonic (cont.)
Oversize materials
1 [Johnny Mnemonic artwork – Nilo Rodis Design Art] 13 September 1993
[over-size]
- includes story boards and set design drawings
2 [Johnny Mnemonic set photographs] [1993?]
- composite photographs of set design and construction
Photographs
1 to 5 [Johnny Mnemonic – B&W production stills?] 1994
- 5 20x25 cm b&w prints
1 to 11 [Johnny Mnemonic – Colour production stills?] 1994 [2 sets]
- 11 20x25 cm colour prints
A/V AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Johnny Mnemonic – VHS
VT 3112 Johnny Mnemonic (Promo): English Mix. – VHS recording. – 6 May 1994
- NTSC dub
VT 3113 Johnny Mnemonic: Reels 1-12. – VHS recording. – 14 June 1994
VT 3114 Johnny Mnemonic: Reels 13, 14. – VHS recording. – 14 June 1994
VT 3115 Johnny Mnemonic: First preview screening. – VHS recording. – 30 July 1994
- “Voodoo teacher”
VT 3116 Johnny Mnemonic: Animatic #6. – VHS recording. – 12 September 1994
VT 3117 Johnny Mnemonic: 35mm D/S Transfer @24 fps. – VHS recording. – 22
September 1994
VT 3118 Johnny Mnemonic: Opening sequence w/ exploding title. – VHS recording. –
7 January 1995
VT 3119 Johnny Mnemonic: Animatic #3. – VHS recording. – 11 January 1995
VT 3120 Johnny Mnemonic: Animatic #5. – VHS recording. – 13 January 1995
VT 3121 Johnny Mnemonic: Opening Sequence Animatic, Super Title Tests,
Cyberspace Stills. – VHS recording. 19 January 1995
VT 3122 Johnny Mnemonic: Opening Crawl. – VHS recording. – 20 March 1995
VT 3123 Johnny Mnemonic: Opening Sequence. – VHS recording. – 25 April 1995
VT 3124 [Johnny Mnemonic?] VR3 Rough 9/14. – VHS recording. – [n.d.]
VT 3125 Johnny Mnemonic: Domestic Version, R#1-5. – VHS recording. – [n.d.]
- HAS Timing Code, R#1ab-5ab
VT 3126 Johnny Mnemonic: Sega & PC CD Playfootage. – VHS recording. – [n.d.]
- Disk 1 – Elements / Disk 2 – Elements
VT 3127 Johnny Mnemonic: Finals to date. – VHS video recording. – 13 September
1994
VT 3128 Johnny Mnemonic: Reels 1-10. – VHS video recording. – 21 October 1994
VT 3129 Johnny Mnemonic: Test footage from digital cyberspace finale. – VHS video
recording. – 30 October 1994
VT 3130 Johnny Mnemonic: Reels 1AB-5AB joined. – VHS video recording. – 15
February 1995
- Viewing cassette
VT 3131 Johnny Mnemonic: Reels 1-10. – VHS video recording. – 16 March 1995
- Viewing cassette W VIZ TC
VT 3132 Johnny Mnemonic Featurette: Offline cut #3. – VHS video recording. – 25
April 1995
- Edited Master
VT 3133 Johnny Mnemonic: Rough Clips. – VHS video recording. – 3 May 1995
VT 3134 Johnny Mnemonic: Sc.