Joe Cornish to direct Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash

The former 6 Music DJ made his director debut with the critically acclaimed Attack The Block, and has been offered a number of shows since.

 

Snow Crash, will see Cornish turn his attention to the future, and a world which is run by mafia controlled city-states. 

 

The film’s plot revolves around a computer virus which takes the form of a drug, which fries their brains. According to film website Deadline Cornish’s lead character is Hiro Protagonist who is a computer hacker, samurai and pizza delivery boy (why of course!)

 

The novel sounds like the perfect project for Cornish, whose Attack The Block saw an alien invasion of a deprived South London council estate beaten off by a group of hoodies.

 

The rights to the novel have been acquired by Paramount Pictures