After being inundated with offers following last year’s standout Attack the Block, director Joe Cornish has been tapped to adapt Neil Stephenson’s bestselling novel Snow Crash.  Cornish will write and direct an adaptation of the book, which takes place in the near future where the U.S. has been divided up into corporate franchise city-states.  The story centers on Hiro Protagonist (real name), a computer hacker who tries to stop a virus called Snow Crash that is transmitted virally through computer screens and fries unsuspecting users’ brains.  Hit the jump for more, including a synopsis of the book.