Snow Crash TV Show
Dennis Fischer <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:05:20 +0000
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------=_Part_512989_264268747.1506686720895 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amazon is making a=C2=A0Snow Crash=C2=A0TV show William HughesYesterday 8:01pmFiled to:=C2=A0TV495(Photo: EMMANUEL DUNAND/A= FP/Getty Images)Neal Stephenson=E2=80=99s=C2=A0Snow Crash=C2=A0is one of th= e great unadapted novels of modern science fiction, right up there with its= granddaddy in the cyberpunk genre, William Gibson=E2=80=99s=C2=A0Neuromanc= er. Given how screen-ready some of=C2=A0Snow Crash=E2=80=99s=C2=A0most famo= us sequences are, though=E2=80=94most notably, the high-speed, action-heavy= pizza delivery chase that opens the novel=E2=80=94it=E2=80=99s honestly ki= nd of baffling that directors have never managed to get a handle on Stephen= son=E2=80=99s world of katana-wielding pizza guys, nuke-toting motorcyclist= s, and virtual reality paradise. The closest Hollywood=E2=80=99s gotten to = date is Steven Spielberg=E2=80=99s upcoming=C2=A0Ready Player One, especial= ly since Ernest Cline=E2=80=99s reference-addicted original novel cribs hea= vily from Stephenson=E2=80=99s virtual worlds.That might all be about to ch= ange, though;=C2=A0Variety=C2=A0reports=C2=A0that Amazon has started develo= pment on a=C2=A0Snow Crash=C2=A0TV series, with=C2=A0Ant Man=C2=A0writer Jo= e Cornish and=C2=A0Back To The Future=C2=A0producer Frank Marshall shepherd= ing the show to the screen. The series is part of an aggressive new push fr= om the online streamer, which=C2=A0recently announced its intentions=C2=A0t= o find its =E2=80=9Cown=E2=80=9D=C2=A0Game Of Thrones.To that end, Amazon a= lso tapped two other well-known authors for projects today. First up: comic= s author Greg Rucka, whose book=C2=A0Lazarus=C2=A0is also being adapted. Se= t in a dystopian near future, the book centers on 16 warring families who c= ontrol humanity, and the one-person kill squads they use to exert their wil= l.The company also announced an adaptation of Larry Niven=E2=80=99s=C2=A0Ri= ngworld, which might actually put=C2=A0Snow Crash=C2=A0to shame on the =E2= =80=9Cunadaptable=E2=80=9D scale, what with all the long, quasi-philosophic= al conversations, elaborate CGI demands, and lurid alien sex it features. T= he book=E2=80=94part of Niven=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CKnown Space=E2=80=9D serie= s=E2=80=94centers on two humans sent by mysterious alien to explore the tit= ular structure, a massive, dangerous ring-like structure surrounding a dist= ant star. Per=C2=A0Variety, Amazon currently has 67 series either in preproduction, p= roduction, or post. The company is definitely going hard after the sci-fi m= arket at the moment; we=E2=80=99ll have to wait and see which of these ambi= tious new series actually make it to the light of day. ------=_Part_512989_264268747.1506686720895 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; f= ont-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font= -size:13px"><header style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); f= ont-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _ym19_1_1506566596093_175205"><header style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175206"><h1 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; m= argin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 40px; tex= t-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-break: break-wor= d;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175207"><a href=3D"https://www.av= club.com/amazon-is-making-a-snow-crash-tv-show-1818979922" data-id=3D"" sty= le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; 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text-re= ndering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1= _1506566596093_175266">Neuromancer</em>. Given how screen-ready some of&nbs= p;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; lin= e-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175267">Snow Cras= h</em>=E2=80=99s<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeL= egibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175= 268"> </em>most famous sequences are, though=E2=80=94most notably, the= high-speed, action-heavy pizza delivery chase that opens the novel=E2=80= =94it=E2=80=99s honestly kind of baffling that directors have never managed= to get a handle on Stephenson=E2=80=99s world of katana-wielding pizza guy= s, nuke-toting motorcyclists, and virtual reality paradise. The closest Hol= lywood=E2=80=99s gotten to date is Steven Spielberg=E2=80=99s upcoming = ;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/freddy-krueger-ninja-turtles-and-the-ir= on-giant-colli-1798264308#_ga=3D2.247351618.792838060.1506421661-651854135.= 1460492003" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit= ; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;= box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s e= ase-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175269"><em style=3D"box-si= zing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175270">Ready Player One</em></a>, esp= ecially since Ernest Cline=E2=80=99s reference-addicted original novel crib= s heavily from Stephenson=E2=80=99s virtual worlds.</div><div style=3D"box-= sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; ma= rgin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size:= 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150656= 6596093_175271">That might all be about to change, though; <a href=3D"= http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-lazarus-snow-crash-ringworld= -1202576048/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inher= it; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inheri= t; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s= ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175272"><em style=3D"box-= sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;"= id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175273">Variety </em>reports</a= > that Amazon has started development on a <em style=3D"box-sizin= g: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175274">Snow Crash </em>TV series,= with <a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/ant-man-builds-a-smaller-ligh= ter-marvel-movie-1798184344" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"bo= x-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line= -height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transit= ion: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175275"><e= m style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-he= ight: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175276">Ant Man</em><= /a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; li= ne-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175277"> </= em>writer Joe Cornish and <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rende= ring: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15= 06566596093_175278">Back To The Future </em>producer Frank Marshall sh= epherding the show to the screen. The series is part of an aggressive new p= ush from the online streamer, which <a href=3D"https://www.avclub.com/= jeff-bezos-is-demanding-amazon-make-its-own-game-of-thr-1802824280" rel=3D"= nofollow" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decora= tion-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2= px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150= 6566596093_175279">recently announced its intentions</a> to find its = =E2=80=9Cown=E2=80=9D <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering= : optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150656= 6596093_175280">Game Of Thrones</em>.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inheri= t; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175281= "></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibili= ty; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-bre= ak: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175282">To that end, Amazon also tapped= two other well-known authors for projects today. First up: comics author G= reg Rucka, whose book <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering= : optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150656= 6596093_175283">Lazarus </em>is also being adapted. Set in a dystopian= near future, the book centers on 16 warring families who control humanity,= and the one-person kill squads they use to exert their will.</div><div sty= le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right= : auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; = font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1506566596093_175284">The company also announced an adaptation of Larry= Niven=E2=80=99s <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt= imizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15065665960= 93_175285">Ringworld</em>, which might actually put <em style=3D"box-s= izing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175286">Snow Crash </em>to shame= on the =E2=80=9Cunadaptable=E2=80=9D scale, what with all the long, quasi-= philosophical conversations, elaborate CGI demands, and lurid alien sex it = features. The book=E2=80=94part of Niven=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CKnown Space=E2= =80=9D series=E2=80=94centers on two humans sent by mysterious alien to exp= lore the titular structure, a massive, dangerous ring-like structure surrou= nding a distant star.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px a= uto; padding: 0px; max-width: 636px; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-ser= if;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175287"><div data-reactroot=3D""= style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2rem auto; padding: 1.125rem; border= -radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-shadow: rgb(229, 22= 9, 229) 0px 2px 5px; clear: both; width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15= 06566596093_175288"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding= : 0px 0px 20px; color: black; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175289"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; ma= rgin: 0px; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175290"><br= ><br></div></div></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-render= ing: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; word-break:= break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175322">Per <em style=3D"bo= x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit= ;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506566596093_175323">Variety</em>, Amazon curre= ntly has 67 series either in preproduction, production, or post. The compan= y is definitely going hard after the sci-fi market at the moment; we=E2=80= =99ll have to wait and see which of these ambitious new series actually mak= e it to the light of day.</div></div></div></body></html> ------=_Part_512989_264268747.1506686720895--