
HBO Max announced this week that they would be producing a TV series from Neal Stephenson’s dystopian gonzo Cyberpunk novel Snow Crash.
Now, a TV adaptation is moving forward. It wouldn’t be the first time—a few years back, Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) was attached to an adaptation being developed by Amazon. Now, he’s back with some new collaborators developing the project again, but this time for HBO Max.
HBO Max has reportedly put the page-to-screen adaptation into development, which means this project is still in the early stages. This is one of many novels HBO Max has invested in to be adapted into original content for their yet-to-be-launched platform.
“Snow Crash is a novel weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse, he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.”