'Attack the Block' Director To Adapt Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'

Joe Cornish, writer/director of the totally rad Attack the Block, will write and direct the film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's bestselling cyberpunk sci-fi novel Snow Crash for Paramount Pictures.

The early '90s novel is a cult classic that has already had one failed adaptation attempt by Paramount, and like most sci-fi some of its ideas ended up in The Matrix. Now it's over to Cornish to see if he can get audiences excited about a pizza delivering samurai hacker called Hiro Protagonist and his investigations into a drug/virus capable of infecting both the real and virtual worlds (it's not nearly as stupid as it sounds).