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