Long-awaited screen adaptation of legendary sci-fi novel gets exciting update from star

The actor said: 'It's going to be really something special. It's got a real, real respect for the source material.'

JOE recently spoke to actors Irons and Zine Tseng about their roles in Young Sherlock, Prime Video's very fun new action-adventure series.

Set in the 1870s, it focuses on the adventures of 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) as he attempts to solve a mystery with surprisingly far-reaching implications.

Irons plays Sherlock's stiff-upper-lipped, Government employee brother, Mycroft, in the show. While Mycroft often acts sternly towards his younger brother, it is only to keep him on the straight and narrow.

During JOE's chat with Irons, we had to ask him about appearing in Apple TV's upcoming 10-part adaptation of Neuromancer.

Published in 1984, Neuromancer was Gibson's debut novel and launched a trilogy, which also includes the books Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).

While released without much fanfare, Neuromancer quickly became a word-of-mouth hit and is now considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre.

It has been cited as a major influence on the movie The Matrix and as having popularised certain terms such as "cyberspace".

Before Apple TV announced it was making the show, a movie adaptation of Neuromancer had been in the works since the '80s. It never came to fruition, however, leading many to dub the novel "unfilmable".

The book and the upcoming series follow antihero Case (Callum Turner, Eternity), a damaged, top-rung super-hacker.

He finds himself thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly (Briana Middleton, Sharper), "a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets".

Speaking to JOE about the TV version of Neuromancer, the Young Sherlock star said the following:

"I can't say a huge amount, but I can tell you it's gonna be great.

"It's going to be really something special. It's got a real, real respect for the source material.

"You've really got something to look forward to there."

Irons' co-star Zine Tseng then asked if he would have a moustache in Neuromancer, like his Young Sherlock character.

In response, he teased: "No, but there's a lot, a lot of fake tan, so you get that."

JOE then asked Tseng if she would be reprising her role as the younger version of Dr Ye Wenjie in the second season of Netflix's alien invasion series 3 Body Problem.

To our surprise, she responded that she will not be back for the new batch of episodes.

When we said that this was a shame, since we loved the flashback scenes involving her character in S1, she replied: "That's not a shame. You're going to get something even more exciting.

"You get to see me in other universes."

JOE then said: "Hopefully more Young Sherlock," to which Irons replied: "Yeah, we'd love that," before crossing his fingers for good luck.

Young Sherlock is streaming now on Prime Video. Neuromancer is expected to premiere on Apple TV+ later this year.