Gibson's handmade shooting script (yellow revision, March 1994)
Price: $12,500.00
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4to, loose leaves housed in an altered three ring binder bound in rigid circuit boards, with additional material laid. Signed on the title page by Gibson. Artists' book created by William Gibson during the shooting of the Robert Longo film Johnny Mnemonic, which had been based on Gibson's excellent short story of the same name. The binder is strikingly bound in circuit boards, with additional elements pasted on, including photographs, holograph notes on duct tape, and a postcard. Inserted in the back is correspondence, call sheets, original computer printouts of script revisions, some annotated, and a large poster print of a pre-production drawing from the film. The near past of the nineties never seemed so far from us now. Originally conceived of as being a low budget art film - in an interview which predated the film's US release in Wired, Longo said that it "started out as an arty 1½-million-dollar movie, and it became a 30-million-dollar movie because we couldn't get a million and a half." Bankrolled by Sony, the film was hacked apart and roughly edited into a different film as that company underestimated the public. According to a 1998 interview with Gibson in The Peak, "Basically what happened was it was taken away and re-cut by the American distributor in the last month of its pre-release life, and it went from being a very funny, very alternative piece of work to being something that had been very unsuccessfully chopped and cut into something more mainstream." The intersection of Cyberpunk and mainstream entertainment became a critical flop. An invaluable and unique record of the meeting point of cyberpunk with mainstream culture.
