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Re: “Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers

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Post by blaser-waffle »

Pfhreak wrote: post #11
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #6

Nearly thirty years on, any adaptation will have to lose some of the book’s charming elements that made sense at the time, such as an America dealing with the fallout of specifically the Reagan administration, or a conspicuous amount of immigrants from early post-Soviet Tajikistan. Still, the theme of everything being privatized has held up well. The one downside of bringing Snow Crash back into the public consciousn…

> such an as America dealing with the fallout of specifically the Reagan administration I mean, Snowcrash's view of income inequality, limitless corporate power, the value of the human life vs capital... I don't think they have to tone that down at all. In fact, my money is they play that up pretty significantly as the essential Neoliberal endgame.

Ditto, I think that'll sell well in a world where millennial are killing $THINGS

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Post by blaser-waffle »

nieve wrote: post #109

Anyone adapting Snowcrash needs to have a sense of the absurd and OTT along with the ability to play it completely deadpan. Angela Robinson brought us D.E.B.S., so I have some hope.

Yeah I imagine something along the lines of Transmetropolitan, but without obviously alien stuff.

But like, odd, goofy, punk rock, etc.

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Post by blaser-waffle »

OJFord wrote: post #30
Pfhreak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The book is a lot of fun, but it's also not a sacred text. It's a story about a pizza delivery driver who will be murdered if he delivers pizza too late and is also a hacker getting bound up in a story of Sumerian brain programmers run amok. (And somehow these brain programmers also can infect someone's blood?) For all of its foresight, the book is goofy and dated as hell. If it's going to come to screen there's no w…

Fully agreed, except that reading your comment made me realise that 'retrofuturist 80s interpretation' is exactly my picture of 'the future' now, and I was born in the 90s. It's not that it's actually what I expect, it's just that if contemporary futuristic stuff's being made, I'm not watching it. But I have seen the Back to the Future trilogy, and 2010 , and so on.

> Fully agreed, except that reading your comment made me realise that 'retrofuturist 80s interpretation' is exactly my picture of 'the future' now, and I was born in the 90s.

Did you see the Cybertruck? itshappening.jpg

Re: “Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers

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Post by michaelt »

mhink wrote: post #73
michaelt wrote: post #67

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Don't they have cell phones, though? I mean, YT is able to call Hiro from the Buy-n-fly?

IIRC, she was calling Hiro from a public Metaverse terminal. Later in the book, it was a huge for him when he had a big enough line of credit to afford the equivalent of a cell phone along with his motorcycle.

You mean the "gargoyle" equipment? I kinda pictured that as a sort of google-glass-meets-nintendo-power-glove arrangement.

Although perhaps that's too literal an interpretation of "recording everything that happens around them" and "in the metaverse all the time"

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Post by munk-a »

blaser-waffle wrote: post #110
munk-a wrote: post #34

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3% is a solid dystopian show - it's clearly got a lower budget for CG but it tends to use practical effects when possible and the CG doesn't terribly detract. It's also nice to see a Brazilian show get an international audience.

3% was originally a few web shorts... and honestly I think I liked those more. Not as flashy, but they were punchier and managed to create the hustled, panicky feeling that the screening process was about. The actual series expanded on this, but felt hollow by comparison.

I will need to track these down - thanks!

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Post by taborj »

Zelphyr wrote: post #64
ascavalcante80 wrote: post #7

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I had the same feeling... We shouldn't be surprised if, after that, we see a Neuromancer series on Netflix or Amazon Prime (not Disney, pls God!).

While were confessing our wishlists for books-to-tv: I'd love to see "Rendezvous With Rama" made into a series.

I still remember the first time I read Rama. Such a great concept.

They've made a couple video games[0] of it. I remember playing through the second one[1], and loved it (but I was/am a Myst junkie)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama_(video_ga...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_(video_game)

Re: “Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers

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Post by taborj »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #80
Zelphyr wrote: post #64

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While were confessing our wishlists for books-to-tv: I'd love to see "Rendezvous With Rama" made into a series.

You know who's been trying to get a Rama movie made for over a decade now? Morgan F'N Freeman. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/morgan_freeman_insists_re

That's fantastic. But reading that article was a bit depressing.

and the Oscar-winner says he's closer than ever.

    (written in 2012, and we still have no Rama)

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

taborj wrote: post #116
Zelphyr wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While were confessing our wishlists for books-to-tv: I'd love to see "Rendezvous With Rama" made into a series.

I still remember the first time I read Rama. Such a great concept. They've made a couple video games[0] of it. I remember playing through the second one[1], and loved it (but I was/am a Myst junkie) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama_(video_ga... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_(video_game)

There is Eon from Greg Bear.

Similar thing, but WAYYY different. I recommend it for people who liked Rama.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_(novel)

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #6

Nearly thirty years on, any adaptation will have to lose some of the book’s charming elements that made sense at the time, such as an America dealing with the fallout of specifically the Reagan administration, or a conspicuous amount of immigrants from early post-Soviet Tajikistan. Still, the theme of everything being privatized has held up well. The one downside of bringing Snow Crash back into the public consciousn…

!Nam-shub

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Post by dreamcompiler »

madrox wrote: post #61

My fear with any Snowcrash adaptation is that it will feel like John Carter of Mars (or Warhammer Online [1]). John Carter was a groundbreaking novel, but its ideas became so adapted and universally understood that revisiting them in a movie felt ironically like derivative work. If I have to endure years of my non-cyberpunk friends talking about how Snowcrash feels like a rip-off of Ready Player One, then I will flip…

That's also my worry about Neuromancer if it's ever filmed: The Wachowskis ripped off Gibson, but modern audiences would think the opposite.
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