If anything, he was inspiring and threw some of the more interesting new ideas that are not in the books at us that eventually were incorporated in the show. 'He loves what Jonathan and Lisa have done, and we've had this long-standing relationship, so I think he had a lot of confidence in the group.

'I've read some of his adaptations of his own work and he changes it radically,' Natali says. Natali says Gibson was not precious about the adaptation specifics of how to turn The Peripheral into a series. 'Here's a guy who kind of invented the world we live in and we've rarely gotten to see his world.' It really hasn't been done enough,' Nolan explains. And he, as many of us have been, fascinated by and kind of obsessed with the idea of bringing his beautifully layered and realized worlds onto the screen. 'Vincenzo had interacted with and become friends with William Gibson over the years. Considering they've consistently developed series and films that address the intersection of humanity and technology, Nolan admits it was a no-brainer from the start.

In an interview with SYFY WIRE, Jonathan Nolan explains that it was Vincenzo Natali who brought the book to their production studio, Kilter Films, for a possible adaptation.

It is set across two timelines in the near futures of 20, revealing that humanity has further integrated technology into all levels of society, but has cumulatively suffered for the ignorance of our environmental choices. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Flynne Fisher, a rural American young woman that is an expert at VR gaming who is conscripted by humanity in the future to help them find a potentially dangerous woman known as Aelita (Charlotte Riley). The series, from showrunner Scott Smith ( A Simple Plan), boasts Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy ( Westworld) as executive producers, along with Vincenzo Natali ( Hannibal), and is an adaptation of Gibson's 2014 book of the same name. However, not much of his back catalog has officially been adapted to film or series, which makes Prime Video's series, The Peripheral, out of the ordinary. From the internet (which he called the matrix), to the ubiquitous nature of reality TV, Gibson wrote about it and then watched it come to fruition. If you know the work of speculative fiction writer, William Gibson, then you know he's the guy who predicted in his prose so much of the tech and media that we have integrated into our lives today.

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