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

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, too much stuff to cram into a film, which good bits will they jettison? I wonder if the nam-shub of Enki will make the cut. Plot-necessary, you'd think, but would need a lot of screen time to explain properly.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

You'd think the nam-shub would be critical, but then I'd never have expected a film of Watchmen to miss out the giant pyschic squid, either...

(Having said that, I did think Watchmen was a pretty credible effort within the parameters of trying to cut down a massive book and squash it relentlessly into a film.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

It was pretty credible, mm.

(Although saying that, I watched it with people who hadn't read the book, and they really struggled to make any sense of what was going on. I think they felt the squashing, and hence density, a lot more than I did being already familiar with the material.)