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Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish To Adapt and Direct Snow Crash

Big moves for Brit filmmaker Joe Cornish : The writer-director of Attack the Block (who also co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s Tintin and Marvel’s Ant-Man script with Edgar Wright) has landed the gig of writing and directing an adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash for Paramount, Deadline reports . The alternate-reality sci-fi tale follows one Hiro Protagonist, a hacker/swordsman who discovers a new drug/computer virus called Snow Crash is spreading through the postmodern future… and you know what that means: Time for a round of Cast That Movie! Which actors out there could fill Hiro’s shoes? [ Deadline ]

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Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish To Adapt and Direct Snow Crash

WATCH: Lady Gaga Meets Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Gagaween

The pop culture parodists at The Hillywood Show bring it with the Halloween movie-music mash-up of the season. Put your paws up and watch as they envision The Nightmare Before Christmas , only with Lady Gaga in place of Jack Skellington. The Monster Queen of Halloweentown! Somehow it’s not much of a stretch. Bonus: It’ll give you a plethora of Gaga Halloween costume ideas (sans the meat dress, which might be a bit tricky to pull off). More in your Thursday Buzz Break!

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WATCH: Lady Gaga Meets Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Gagaween

Screen Gems Picks Up Joe Cornish’s Brit Alien Pic Attack the Block

Movieline hero Clint Culpepper strikes again! Sony announced today that it will distribute Joe Cornish’s debut feature, the London kids vs. aliens action comedy Attack the Block , via its Screen Gems division. “The film is, at once, charming, scary, funny, hip, clever and completely hits its mark,” said Screen Gems president Culpepper in a press release. Guess all that geek cred from SXSW did the film some good after all! Hit the jump for more info and a look at the film’s nerdgasm-inducing trailer.

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Attack the Block Is the First Geek Hit of SXSW, But Does That Really Mean Anything?

Universal’s geek bonding road trip flick Paul screens shortly tonight at SXSW, but another sci-fi alien pic with ties to the Nick Frost-Edgar Wright-Simon Pegg universe may have already stolen its thunder: Attack the Block , director Joe Cornish’s horror comedy about inner-city London kids who channel their delinquent ways into survival skills when vicious space invaders descend.

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Attack the Block Is the First Geek Hit of SXSW, But Does That Really Mean Anything?