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From The William Aleph
The rights to 'Burning Chrome' were optioned by Leonard Mogel in the mid-eighties, even before the short story collection appeared. It was supposed to become a sequel to an animated SF feature, The Heavy Metal Movie, and had six script drafts by Scott Roberts with input from Gibson. The Heavy Metal Movie however failed at the box office and caused the project to halt. In the nineties producer B. J. Rack and director James Cameron ('Terminator', 'Aliens', 'Titanic') became interested in the project, and a script was developed for Carolco Films. Reportedly Gibson declared the script as having been turned into "genre cyberpunk", and it is rumoured that he also produced a rewrite. Apparentely Cameron was supposed to direct the movie after delivering 'Terminator 2', though from this stage on not much is known about the amount of rewriting and preproduction, and eventually the project stalled.