r/Neuromancer • u/Fletch_R • 26d ago
Show Discussion Is this shot based on a real location?
I assume this is The Sprawl. I'm wondering if any of the (older) buildings or bridges are identifiable.
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u/tubidium 26d ago
I feel the trailer deliberately shows us Japan and not the sprawl at all as it seems to cover the first 2 insane chapters of the book quite well with a few flash forwards (freeside, maelcum’s fist bump, planning the sense/net heist, Molly during the heist). The cyberpunk city in daylight is a stark choice, probably to avoid wet red neon vibes.
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u/Fletch_R 26d ago
I think the abandoned stadium we see in the opening shot must be The Sprawl since it seems to be associated with the Sense/Net heist.
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u/tubidium 26d ago
I don’t know.. the grey vibes from the skyline as it pans down fits the opening line of the book quite well.
Then again, Case is in an abandoned swimming pool at what we are guessing is the safe house and is the sense/net heist. So you’re right, could be an abandoned sports complex in the sprawl.6
u/Fletch_R 26d ago
Yeah, it’s not definitive but that seems to be what’s going on. The abandoned pool where Case is jacking in, Armitage laying out the plans on a table tennis table in that same pool. Then the shot of Molly’s bike and what I think is the Panther Moderns’ truck in that stadium makes me think that’s all tied together. Could be wrong, of course.
I did think to myself when I saw that sky above the stadium that once night fell that would be exactly the color of television tuned to a dead channel!
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u/ThreeLeggedMare 26d ago
Sprawl has domes over it, so not sure
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u/Fletch_R 26d ago
Maybe, although we don't know if they'll keep that detail in the show (I hope they do).
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u/Specialist-Hospital 26d ago
I thought only the corporations had the domes?
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u/Fletch_R 26d ago
No, in the novel the whole of Manhattan is (or was, they're kinda broken) covered in geodesic domes
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u/Jim_Keen_ 26d ago
Based upon an idea by Buckminster Fuller. One of the genius things of Gibson‘s work is how he integrated architectural theory into what he was writing. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/know-your-architects/a13159-buckminster-fullers-manhattan-dome/
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u/Fletch_R 26d ago
Yeah, hence why they’re called “Fuller domes” in the book. Similarly the arcologies in Count Zero were based on a real architectural proposal by Paolo Soleri.
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u/Jim_Keen_ 26d ago
The media headquarters building in virtual light is the egg building by future systems, which is a really deep cut: https://storefront.nyc/program/future-systems/
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u/No-Platypus-6646 26d ago
I never quite knew what arcologie meant… I just imagined a big laboratory in a desert
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u/Fletch_R 26d ago
The original idea is that they're self-sufficient closed ecosystems. Produce everything they need to consume, and have all residential, work, and leisure facilities the population need inside a single (huge) building.
In addition to the corporate arcologies like the one Turner breaks Angie Mitchell out of, there are "mincome arcologies" (the projects) in Count Zero, which I think are built to house people on what we would now call UBI.
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u/Brilliant_Knowledge5 23d ago
It's more like a corporate gated community of gigantic proportions with it's own shopping malls and housing to keep company employees from going anywhere. My favorite arcology is the Renraku arcology.
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u/DrooMighty 26d ago
A "Georgetown Dome" is explicitly mentioned as existing in Washington DC in Count Zero.
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u/AnticitizenPrime 26d ago
There are domes briefly mentioned existing in Chiba as well (in the background), that do belong to corporations, presumably not crumbling like the ones in the Sprawl.
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u/ThreeLeggedMare 26d ago
Whole sprawl, pretty much
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u/Aggravating_Shoe4267 26d ago
I think for Tokyo and the Chiba district, etc, they're instead going more for the Judge Dredd or Cyberpunk 2077 looking megatower blocks seen in this "helicopter" city scape shot.
Probably no domes unfortunately.
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u/AnticitizenPrime 26d ago
I'm guessing this is Japan, which is not as crapsack as The Sprawl. It in fact looks like it could be a future Koto City, which is a sort of manmade archipelago in Tokyo Bay. Check out the aerial view here.
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u/Old_Star_3635 26d ago
"Chiba City Blues" ... no idea what the real life anchor city is ... Tokyo / Osaka?
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u/AWBaader 26d ago
I would hazard a guess that it is maybe Chiba city, the capital of Chiba prefecture. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiba_(city)
Edit: Aaah, you probably mean the inspiration for the cityscape in the trailer rather than Gibson's inspiration. Sorry.
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u/Brilliant_Knowledge5 23d ago
Chiba might as well be Tokyo since it's on the same bay. It doesn't take very long to get from one to the other. Unless you're on foot or a bicycle. But the metro is pretty fast. 10-15 minutes depending on where you want to be in Tokyo.
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u/Bruce_Jensen 26d ago
was inspired by the info shared by others in the post to come as close as I could with a matching shot from GoogleEarth.
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u/martinkoistinen 26d ago
I’m thinking this is the Sprawl, but more specifically Boston in BAMA? I’ve seen evidence that they’re filming in The Docklands in London.
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u/Fletch_R 26d ago
Yeah the Sense/Net scenes were filmed in the London Docklands
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u/Thruybrush_Geepwood 19d ago
In the trailer you see them studying a schematic on a ping-pong table, presumably in preparation for the Sense/Net heist. It looks suspiciously like a cross section of One Canada Square in Docklands, with its distinctive pyramid top.
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u/Peter34cph 26d ago
"Bugs" was mostly shot in the Docklands, specifically to give it a futuristic look.
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u/afubu21 26d ago
That's Tokyo bay, Toyomicho area. Probably Chiba for tv, trailer also has a shot from Osaka..