Amazon is making a Snow Crash TV show

Snow Crash, based on Neal Stephenson’s famous novel makes the jump into the serial format. The series is part of an aggressive new push from the online streamer, which recently announced its intentions to find its “own” Game Of Thrones, and will be produced by Amazon and Paramount Television. It will be a one-hour sci-fi drama set in a not so distant future America.

The story begins with Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and a pizza delivery boy, who works for the mafia navigating his way around The Metaverse, a successor to the Internet. Prepare to put your thinking cap on for the various fictional technologies that are talked about in the high-concept narrative. The show is being executive-produced by Joe Cornish (Ant-Man) and Frank Marshall (Back to the Future).

Amazon looks for a Sci-Fi Hit with another two new adaptations

Amazon also tapped two other well-known authors for projects today. First up: comics author Greg Rucka, whose book Lazarus 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.

The company also announced an adaptation of Larry Niven’s Ringworld, which might actually put Snow Crash to shame on the “unadaptable” scale, what with all the long, quasi-philosophical conversations, elaborate CGI demands, and lurid alien sex it features. The book, part of Niven’s “Known Space” series, centers on two humans sent by mysterious alien to explore the titular structure, a massive, dangerous ring-like structure surrounding a distant star.

Amazon’s announced an ambitious slate of programming over the past few months. They’re putting a lot of money behind their television series, and it’s clear that they are serious about being a world-class studio for both TV and movies.

Source: Amazon