Posted on Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Joe Cornish, who has been offered a ton of projects since his alien invasion breakthrough film Attack The Block, has been set to write and direct the Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash. The book has just been reacquired by Paramount Pictures, with Kathleen Kennedy and Kennedy/Marshall producing.

‘Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish Lands ‘Snow Crash’ At Paramount - Deadline.com

Oh they had better not fuck this up. Hiro had best not be played by a white actor.

(via shorterexcerpts)

Joe Cornish is a great choice.  I don’t know how much control he’ll have over the actors - I do suspect they might pull a white Hiro.  But in terms of telling the story well, they could have done much, much worse in the Director’s chair.

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