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Get a copy of the original, turn down saturation and turn up film grain in VLC.

That would be nice as a first approximation, but a bit more work went into it:

"So, I got the hi-res footage from the studio, and we graded it into black-and-white. I worked with Cyrus Stowe, who was the colorist on this version. Basically, we went through it scene-by-scene, and he was really great. He's really a very talented guy."

Sounds like it was a pet project of the director's and had a few small art-house film screenings. If we're lucky maybe they'll take it on the film festival circuit, drum up interest, and have a wider independent/art house film release. Who knows maybe it eventually gets out to more theaters, kind of like the Mad Max Fury Road chrome edition (black and white) some years back.

It recently released on bluray

https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Mnemonic-Black-White-Blu-Ray/d...

I don't have a Blu-ray player; time to find a torrent...