Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is considered, along with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, one of the pillars of the cyberpunk genre and one of the most important works of modern science fiction. “When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set – a “snow crash.” Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…was the Command Line, p. Stephenson also is the author of The Big U, Zodiac, The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, Cryptonomicon and most recently Fall or, Dodge in Hell, among others.THE ORIGINAL REVISED TYPESETTING MANUSCRIPT FOR SNOW CRASH, WITH NEAL STEPHENSON’S ABUNDANT NOTATIONS, REVISIONS, AND CHANGES ALONGSIDE THOSE OF HIS EDITORS He most recently wrote and directed 20th Century Fox/Working Title’s 2019 fantasy feature The Kid Who Would Be King. He’s currently adapting Mark Millar’s comic book Sharkey the Bounty Hunter as a feature film for Netflix.Ĭornish made his feature directorial debut with Attack the Block, the saga of a group of British youths who stave off an alien invasion in their rough neighborhood, which he also wrote.

Paramount TV is the studio.īacall wrote the screenplay for 21 Jump Street as well as Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Clarke Award in 1994.īacall and Cornish will executive produce with Robinson, Marshall and Robert Zotnowski. Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993, and the Arthur C. 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.”

In a summary provided by Goodreads, it revolves around “Hiro Protagonist, who in reality delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Stephenson’s Snow Crash, originally published in 1992 by Bantam Books, is dystopian in nature, and like many of his other novels, covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy. Bacall will pen the adaptation and serve as co-showrunner with Angela Robinson ( The L Word), with Cornish set to direct.

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