Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
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Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#2Classic - but possibly unfilmable - scifi book
Exciting new director - but a budget high enough that it will need the theme park and fast food tie-ins
A pitch which probably included phrases like, "it's the Matrix but with samurai swords and girls on skateboards"
.... and it will probably be in 3d .......
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#3I'm afraid they'll leave out the most interesting parts of the book and make it a dumb action movie. For me, what makes the book great isn't the plot, it's the satire of american suburbia, globalization, and the weird tangents into sumerian mythology and NLP. I hate when they make movies out of my favorite books...
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#4I'm afraid they'll leave out the most interesting parts of the book and make it a dumb action movie. For me, what makes the book great isn't the plot, it's the satire of american suburbia, globalization, and the weird tangents into sumerian mythology and NLP. I hate when they make movies out of my favorite books...
I'd generally agree but as a huge fan of The Diamond Age (which would arguably be easier to film) I hope it brings more people to reading Neal Stephenson.
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#5I would feel a lot better about it if it was being done by Christopher Nolan. Inception was proof that he doesn't let suits dumb down complex plots.
But you have to admit that the opening sequence will at least be awesome: a pizza delivery guy who works for the Mafia flying through an extremely dangerous libertarian dystopia.
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#6Classic - but possibly unfilmable - scifi book Exciting new director - but a budget high enough that it will need the theme park and fast food tie-ins A pitch which probably included phrases like, "it's the Matrix but with samurai swords and girls on skateboards" .... and it will probably be in 3d .......
...and now when you tell people you like Neal Stephenson, they'll say "Oh, I saw Snow Crash!", and you'll say "The book is better than the movie", and everyone will think you're a jerk.
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#7Classic - but possibly unfilmable - scifi book Exciting new director - but a budget high enough that it will need the theme park and fast food tie-ins A pitch which probably included phrases like, "it's the Matrix but with samurai swords and girls on skateboards" .... and it will probably be in 3d .......
...and now when you tell people you like Neal Stephenson, they'll say "Oh, I saw Snow Crash!", and you'll say "The book is better than the movie", and everyone will think you're a jerk.
On the other hand the book will sell like hotcakes in a new shiny-covered reprint with a "Now a Major Motion Picture" banner across the cover.
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#8I'm afraid they'll leave out the most interesting parts of the book and make it a dumb action movie. For me, what makes the book great isn't the plot, it's the satire of american suburbia, globalization, and the weird tangents into sumerian mythology and NLP. I hate when they make movies out of my favorite books...
You really think the writer of Attack the Block can't handle weird-ass tangents like in Snow Crash? :)
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#9I'm afraid they'll leave out the most interesting parts of the book and make it a dumb action movie. For me, what makes the book great isn't the plot, it's the satire of american suburbia, globalization, and the weird tangents into sumerian mythology and NLP. I hate when they make movies out of my favorite books...
Look at it from the other perspective. Lots of people will learn about this book because there is a movie about it.
The movie should not take away from the fact that books are brilliant.
Re: Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish
#10I'm afraid they'll leave out the most interesting parts of the book and make it a dumb action movie. For me, what makes the book great isn't the plot, it's the satire of american suburbia, globalization, and the weird tangents into sumerian mythology and NLP. I hate when they make movies out of my favorite books...
Snow Crash is an interesting book, but a deeply flawed one. Stephenson's later books are much better (though after Diamond Age they become too long to film anyway).
It is a bit of a dumb action movie, in many ways. A guy with a sword takes on an entire flotilla, if I recall correctly. The coolest moment in the entire book involves somebody saying "I'm sure they'll listen to reason" and then pulling out an enormous gun labelled "REASON". So if the movie turns out to be full of dumb action sequences it'll only be consistent with the book.
Another major flaw of the book, as written, is that it has chapters upon chapters of exposition which are basically dialogue scenes between Hiro and the librarian program. Most of the actual overly complicated plot stuff winds up getting explained in these scenes.
The third problem with the book is a rather dated view of the future... or by now a rather dated view of the immediate past. Both Hiro and the other dude are reasonably young guys whose fathers fought in World War 2, which puts a fairly stringent limit on how late you can possibly set it (unless you play around with which war it was; I think the fact it was WW2 was fairly vital to the backstory though).
Anyway, I'm not against a Snow Crash movie at all, I'm just pointing out that it needs some serious work to be adapted, and that may wind up throwing out some of the bits that many people like best about it.