Neal Stephenson's cyber-punk novel "Snow Crash" is once again in the sights of Paramount Pictures for a feature film adaptation.
Deadline reports "Attack the Block" director Joe Cornish is set to write and direct the adaptation.
According to the report, Paramount had the rights to the novel when it was first published in 1992, but dropped it. Disney then acquired it with Kennedy/Marshall producing, but again it went nowhere. The production company then got Cornish involved and brought the project back to Paramount.
In addition to the sci-fi comedy "Attack the Block," Cornish also helped write Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" and is attached to the forthcoming Marvel adaptation, "Ant-Man."
The official synopsis of "Snow Crash" describe the book as follows: "In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. "Snow Crash" is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately."
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| The novel was published in 1992. |
According to the report, Paramount had the rights to the novel when it was first published in 1992, but dropped it. Disney then acquired it with Kennedy/Marshall producing, but again it went nowhere. The production company then got Cornish involved and brought the project back to Paramount.
In addition to the sci-fi comedy "Attack the Block," Cornish also helped write Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" and is attached to the forthcoming Marvel adaptation, "Ant-Man."
The official synopsis of "Snow Crash" describe the book as follows: "In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. "Snow Crash" is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately."
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