Paramount Pictures is giving another go on adapting Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. When the best-selling and must-read novel of the cyberpunk genre originally came out in 1992, the studio had jumped to develop it into a film. Paramount has now recruited Joe Cornish, the scribe behind the fun twist on an alien invasion with his Attack the Block film last year, to work on this project this time around.

According to Deadline, Cornish has been recruited to not only write but also direct the adaptation of Snow Crash. The book is one of Time Magazine’s 100 All-Time Best English-language Novels.

Book Synopsis:

From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet–incarnate as the Metaverse–looks something like last year’s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist–hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what’s a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.

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