And if I go around with you, you know that I get messed up, too

[venta]

No.... no... nooooooo.

This probably isn't going to be good, is it?

http://www.bureau42.com/view/11398/snow-crash-es-onto-film

(To clarify: I don't really know who Joe Cornish is. People keep saying he did Attack the Block, but that doesn't mean anything to me. Oh, and, er, apparently he's the Joe of Adam and Joe. That surprised me.

I just can't currently conceive of a film version of Snow Crash which doesn't suck.)

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. On reflection, I don't think I'd have had the same "aaargh! no!" reaction to an announcement about a film of Neuromancer. I'd still be pretty wary of them breaking a book I like, but I think it lends itself much more easily to cinematic treatment.

My overall impression of Neuromancer is much more visual, where Stephenson's prose is very explain-y in between the action scenes. Unless they make YT into Dr Watson and have Hiro explain masses of stuff to her, I don't know how they're going to get all the necessary bits of info to the viewer.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

There are parts of Snow Crash that are very cinematic. The Deliverator, the finale (which IMHO is a bit lame, but there you go), pretty much anything that happens on the water, the rock concert, Aleuts on submarines, all of these things could translate very well to the big screen. Snow Crash the movie could not be Snow Crash the book, but then Blade Runner wasn't "Androids", either. It could work.