“Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan’s company sent me the book,” he said. The challenge was doubly tricky for Smith, a novelist and screenwriter who picked up an Oscar nomination in 1999 for the screenplay adapted from his crime thriller, “A Simple Plan.” Smith had never been involved in a science-fiction project like “The Peripheral” before. “There’s just a certain pull, given the subject matter, to solving certain narrative problems in ways that they had already.” That’s Westworld, season two,’” he told me. “Honestly, as we were generating story points in the writers’ room, there were times where we would suddenly have to be, like, ‘Wait, no, no, no, we can’t do that.
I couldn’t help noticing that the technological twists and the tone of “The Peripheral” echoed the feel of another sci-fi series, HBO’s “Westworld.” That shouldn’t be surprising, in light of the fact that “Westworld” co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are also executive producers for “The Peripheral.” But the parallels presented Smith and his writing team with a tricky challenge. Smith discusses how his team created the screen version of “The Peripheral” - and how Gibson’s world of the future squares with the challenges of the present - in the latest episode of Fiction Science, a podcast that focuses on the intersection of science and technology with fiction and popular culture. And we felt like we were watching that happening in real time.” “There’s something called ‘the Jackpot’ in the story, which involves a kind of multi-vector apocalypse. “We initiated our writers’ room three weeks before the pandemic hit and the country shut down,” series producer/writer Scott B. Now the novel has been turned into a streaming-video series distributed on Amazon Prime Video, and it turns out that Gibson’s future is more like the present than it was when the book was published in 2014. The future may not be evenly distributed, but there’s a dystopia-inducing concentration of it in “The Peripheral,” a science-fiction novel by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson.
(Photo by Sophie Mutevelian / Prime Video) Chloe Grace Moretz stars in “The Peripheral,” a video series based on William Gibson’s novel.
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