After Cloud Atlas: Five Upcoming Sci-Fi Adaptations To Look Forward To

snow crash After Cloud Atlas: Five Upcoming Sci Fi Adaptations To Look Forward To

1. Snow Crash

After last year’s British sci-fi horror Attack The Block, Joe Cornish landed the directorial duties on the adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 cyberpunk trend-setter, Snow Crash.

Snow Crash is set in a near-future dystopian United States, where the federal government has vanished and instead a network of franchises, mercenaries, corporate entities and the mafia maintain control. The story follows Hiro Protagonist, a hacker who tries to stop the end of civilisation when a fatal pseudo-narcotic called Snow Crash threatens the human race. Masquerading as a computer virus, Snow Crash infects users who are plugged in to the Metaverse; Stephenson’s idea of a futuristic Internet merged with virtual reality similar to an MMO.

When published, Snow Crash sent a shockwave through the genre literary world and secured a spot on Time Magazine’s of the 100 all-time best English books written since 1923. Originally optioned in 1996, the film had director Jeffrey Nachmanoff attached for Touchstone Pictures. The project then collapsed under the weight of the material and was picked up by Disney but is now back at Touchstone under the production of Kennedy-Marshall. Producer and big fan of the novel, Kathleen Kennedy offered the script to Cornish, who then signed on.

The project has an absolute winner with securing Joe Cornish, a film and genre geek whose loyalty to detail and cheeky blink-and-you’ll-miss-them homages to some of sci-fi’s icons in Attack The Block, will hopefully be perpetuated in this cyber classic.

Snow Crash is currently in pre-production.

Are you looking forward to seeing any of these flicks after Cloud Atlas? Or can you think of other literary masterpieces you’d like to see on the big screen? Have your say in the comments below.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Catalin-Rotariu/750959757 Catalin Rotariu

asa butterfield as Ender … hmm. Let’s hope that I die before this movie is released. Please, if there is a GOD.
n8csquared

I’m really looking forward to Ender’s Game. One of my favourite books of all time without question and I have faith they’ll do it justice. After waiting this long I don’t think Card would let a horrible script through.
- Che Broadnax
  
  One of the previous scripts — WRITTEN by Card — was AWFUL. Aside from being a terrible piece of writing, it blows the ending in the first ten pages. Don’t be so sure this won’t be a steaming pile of formic poo.
http://twitter.com/curtisjunk Curtis Jensen

Ender’s Game presents ethical problems for me. Orson Scott Card is a world class homophobe and religious zealot whose values are direct conflict with any fair minded individual and the ethos of Sci-fi which I always think of as being about the progress of human kind and the expansion of respect, freedom and equality. Putting money into his pocket, promoting his books and the increasing sales likely to result just don’t sit well with me. He uses his fame to actively and loudly promote anti-Gay causes. More money in his pocket isn’t something i will “look forward to”
- Jeff
  
  You need to take a look in the crazy mirror. Half of Hollywood are pedophiles and rapists and your upset about the author of a book who doesn’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle?
  - concerned louisvillian
    
    Jeff you are a moron.. try to live in this century
- Molly
  
  Sci-fi is about the possibility of fucking an alien, that just translates to equality.
http://twitter.com/curtisjunk Curtis Jensen

Now Snow Crash, there’s a film I’m excited about. Frankly I would love to see all of Stephenson’s novels adapted and his “Baroque Cycle” should be turned into a premium cable series and explored over the course of several years. Love me some Stephenson!
Luke Milwauker

The Grey Lensmen!!!
http://twitter.com/rustrobot Alexis Ayala

You forgot about Vincenzo Natali’s adaption of Neuromancer. That should most certainly be on the list.
Jordi

So rediculously excited for “Ready Player 1″!
bobnotbob

Ender’s Game is one of the worst sci-fi novels ever written. Perhaps the movie will appeal to the 12 years old for which it was written.
Andric

Curtis nobody cares about your feelings…
http://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeyer1979 Michael Meyer

One of my favorite books I have ever read and would LOVE to see in a movie (if done right, of course) is “Stranger In a Strange Land” by Robert Heinlein. Don’t get me wrong… I know it would be a long shot. Fantastic book though
http://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeyer1979 Michael Meyer

Or how about the “Foundation” series by Isaac Asimov?
Jebediah Kaine

Based on his writings, Orson Scott Card is clearly a latent homosexual with barely suppressed pedophilic tendencies. Just the kind of writer Hollywood might enjoy. Hopefully, his film will fall into development hell…again.