This Neuromancer adaptation can't avoid being difficult, as it's set in the "near future", but written 42 years ago and widely regarded as prophetic soon after.

Reality has in many ways caught up. Other works of fiction have gone ahead. Because it's a classic, so much other visual and written stories are derivative of it. So it runs the risk of looking derivative itself when brought to screen.

So much real tech is similar but not quite the same as in the book, that they will have to choose how to portray that - too close to reality and it comes across as more like a technothriller than Sci-Fi, and not prophetic at all. Too different and it could look retro, a twee "way-back-when-future".

"I steal data in cyberspace" just feels very different now that "cyberspace" is a word that we know, and stolen data online is just a grubby mundane reality. You have to change the plot points or change the tone.

Like, the scenes set in Japan. If that was current, it would be an industrial zone in China instead. But how does that deliver the "future shock" of something that hasn't happened yet? And please don't make the AI's LLMs, FFS.