By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2017 10:30 am EST
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Ringworld
Lazarus
While that sounds like it has the potential for Game of Thrones-level drama, the story primarily follows Forever Carlyle, who is the military leader for the Carlyle family, known for their various developments in genetic technology. This includes creating modified seeds that provide food for most of the world and altering their own genetics, which allows all of them to grow old without suffering the consequences of age.
Snow Crash
We follow a hacker with the totally subtle name of Hiro Protagonist as he delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., a pizza place owned by the mafia. But Hiro also has a presence in the virtual world known as the Metaverse, where he’s a warrior prince who gets caught up in a dangerous plot involving a computer virus that has the potential to destroy the minds of citizens in the real world, starting with hackers like Hiro.
There are surface similarities to Ready Player One here (although Snow Crash predates that book by years and offers up a very different tone), so it remains to be seen if audiences will be ready for another virtual world story like this so soon after that movie hits theaters in March of 2018. Presumably, it will be awhile before Snow Crash gets off the ground, so it could be able to stand on its own by then. It helps that there’s some great talent behind it, including Attack the Block director Joe Cornish executive producing with Frank Marshall (Indiana Jones, Back to the Future). This could end up being a big deal.
Which of these three hopeful shows sounds the most interesting to you?
