ATTACK THE BLOCK's Joe Cornish To Adapt SNOW CRASH

Movie Joe Cornish by Mily Dunbar

Attack the Block's Joe Cornish will write and direct Snow Crash for Paramount, Deadline reports. He's had his pick of projects since his breakthrough with last summer's alien invasion flick, but has settled on the adaptation of the 1992 bestseller by Neal Stephenson. Paramount developed the book when it was originally printed, but dropped the project before a film was ever made. The studio recently reaquired the rights for producer Kathleen Kennedy.

Snow Crash is an ahead-of-its-time cyberpunk thriller set "in the near future, when the U.S. exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and private enterprise and the mafia control everything. The plot involves a computer virus that is manifested as a drug called Snow Crash that is transmitted visually from computer screens to unsuspecting users, frying their brains. Hiro Protagonist – that’s the character’s name – a computer hacker/samurai swordsman/pizza delivery driver who investigates and tries to stop the takeover of postmodern civilization."

The book sounds kind of insane to me, but apparently it has a huge cult following. Cornish seems to think he can make a great movie out of it, and Attack the Block was a little out there. Are you a fan of the book? Do you think Cornish is the right man for the project?

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