Two weeks ago, during the Toronto International Film Festival, a room full of Industry Delegates met with an audience of Gaming and New Media experts and aficionados to listen in on a panel discussion about the development of the up and coming adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer as both a film and a video game. On deck for the discussion moderated by Mark Askwith of SPACE were Neuromancer‘s writer/director Vincenzo Natali and the film’s producer Jay Firestone, along with Trevor Fencott, the president and CEO of Bedlam Games, who will be developing the game adaptation of the classic cyberpunk novel, and Francesca Accinelli, the director of the Canada Media Fund’s English Market. The panel attracted a standing-room only audience and delved into some intense ruminations on the process of adaptation for both the film and video game medium.

But don’t sweat if you missed this as TIFF Nexus is proud to present the full unedited panel via TIFF’s YouTube channel. Jack into the embedded video below and feel free to comment and add insights of your own:

Image: Neuromancer (c) Interplay, 1988