That certainly would have been an interesting take on the material, which some believe is essentially unfilmable. Seriously? Snow Crash was supposed to be a

That certainly would have been an interesting take on the material, which some believe is essentially unfilmable. Seriously? Snow Crash was supposed to be a comic book, that's why the intro is so strongly visual. The Street, the sword duel on motorcycles, the Burbclaves, the Loglo, etc etc. Some of the deeper themes may be difficult to translate to a 120 minute movie, but that's not the same thing as unfilmable.