After nearly three (!) decades of false starts -- I'm old enough to remember when the director of Demolition Man was once attached to make it -- it looks like a filmed adaption of Snow Crash is finally taking shape:

Neal Stephenson's influential Snow Crash is finally poised to reach screens, although you'll have to be picky about where you watch it. HBO Max has ordered work on a TV series adaptation of the sci-fi novel that will be written and co-run by the Scott Pilgrim movie's Michael Bacall, and directed by Attack the Block's Joe Cornish. The L Word's Angela Robinson will run the show alongside Bacall.

So "filmed", but not as a movie, and rather for a series to be streamed on the Internet. But given that cash-flush HBO is involved, this is the version most likely to finally make it to the screen. Which is ironic timing for several reasons, including: