History of Cyberpunk

By The Blundler

  • Blade Runner

    Blade Runner
    Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' is very loosely based upon Phillip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'.
    Dick's approach, however, was not cyberpunk as we know it, nor nearly as popular as the 1982 film it spawned.

  • Neuromancer

    Neuromancer
    Whilst William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' was not the invention of cyberpunk, it was an epitome of what people imagined it to be, and was massively influential upon the genre itself.

  • The Terminator

    Whilst not strictly Cyberpunk, James Cameron's 'The Temrminator was nonetheless important in that it brought mass attention to the idea of a cyborg.

  • Ghost in the Shell

    Ghost in the Shell
    In 1995, the Japanese manga series 'Ghost in the Shell' was adpted into a film.
    Hugely successful, it was a pioneer for adult animated film in the west, and the Cyberpunk genre as a whole.

  • The Matrix

    The Matrix
    The Wachowski brothers' 'The Matrix' was another hugely successful cyber-punk film, imagining a future where humanity is forever trapped in cyberspace, non-consensual mass hallucinations forced upon our kind by sentient machines.