It’s five long years since Joe Cornish marked himself as a genre director with considerable bite with the alien invasion flick “Attack The Block.” The film introduced the world to John Boyega who has since become a global star thanks to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and also made Cornish highly sought after in Hollywood. However, the director has actively turned down high profile gigs — most (in)famously, perhaps, “Live Free Or Die Hard” — choosing to work on his own projects instead. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to anything hitting the big screen in a half-decade, but it seems there’s some hope he could get his new film mounted next year.
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For a few years now, Cornish has been attached to direct an adaptation of Neal Stephenson‘s beloved sci-fi classic “Snow Crash.” It’s certainly ambitious material to tackle, but also timely, dealing with virtual realities, the dark web, and global conspiracy, imagining a future that isn’t dystopian, so much as commodified. For those familiar with the book, it’s easy to see both the attraction to turn it into a movie, and the just how difficult it might be. But according to producer Frank Marshall, “Snow Crash” is getting close to being made.
“Joe Cornish is developing it with us and I hope we get started on that next year, I’m excited about that one,” he told Collider. “It’s a complicated story. It takes place in the near future and it has a lot of virtual reality in it, it’s a character that goes back-and-forth between what’s called the ‘metaverse’ in Los Angeles, but the sequences are fantastic and it really gives Joe the opportunity to show that great imagination that he has and create some fantastic scenes.”
The potential and promise is there, and if Cornish has spent all this time working it out, it really could be something great. Fingers crossed we’re not waiting too much longer for Cornish to get behind the camera.
