It’s astonishing to me to see how much influence his work has had.

Nolan: Yeah! But also able to vividly, warmly imagine these worlds and these characters. Lisa Joy: He’s like a modern-day prophet. He’s one of the greatest American minds in science fiction. And I just was dazzled by Gibson’s prose and his unparalleled ability to imagine worlds into existence. Jonathan Nolan: It came from Vincenzo Natali, who we’ve worked with several times before, wonderful director. He walked into our office and said, “I’ve got my dream project.” And he had been talking to William Gibson, they have been friends for quite some time. For me, it started even earlier than that. I think I was 14 when I read “Count Zero” first, and then I worked my way back to “Neuromancer.” I was always reading nonlinearly when I was a kid, a particular foible of mine. Where did the idea to do it come from, and why with Amazon? “The Peripheral” was set up prior to your Amazon deal.

Smith and director Vincenzo Natali, plans for concluding “Westworld” and how they’re adapting “Fallout.” Nolan and Joy sat down with Variety at the JW Marriott Essex House hotel in New York City to discuss embarking on a new future with “The Peripheral,” alongside creator and showrunner Scott B. “The Peripheral”/Amazon Prime Video Sophie Mutevelian/Prime Video TV and Amazon - but they’ve also just spent the summer filming the first two episodes of their adaptation of the “Fallout” video games as a series for Amazon, while plotting multiple other titles at the streamer. Discovery through “Westworld,” though the show is awaiting word on a fifth (and what Nolan says would definitely be final) season, and “The Peripheral” is a co-production between Warner Bros. The sci-fi drama based on William Gibson’s 2014 novel of the same name was actually put into development at the streamer in April 2018, when Nolan and Joy were still under an overall deal at WarnerMedia and debuting the second season of HBO’s “ Westworld.” It was ordered to series the following November, just a few months after the couple left their former home studio for a multiyear pact with Amazon.Īs “The Peripheral” - which stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr and Jack Reynor as three futuristic characters whose lives intersect in what Joy calls “the coolest video game ever” - finally premieres on Friday, the project’s release marks a transitional time for Nolan and Joy. 21 debut of their first Prime Video series, “ The Peripheral.” More than three years into their mega overall deal at Amazon Studios, married producing duo Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy await the Oct.

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