Now Playing Magazine is reporting that Alex Steyermark (Prey for Rock 'N Roll) is adapting William Gibson's 1997 cyberpunk classic, Idoru, for an anime film, which could begin production as early as next month.  Set in a decadent media-saturated Tokyo of the mid-21st Century, Idoru is a many faceted-tale about, among other things, the love affair between Rez, one half the popular J-Pop duo Lo/Rez, and an 'idol' singer, a near future 'virtual' version of the sort of media-crafted creation that is now commonplace in the U.S. as well as Japan thanks to 'boy bands' and TV shows like American Idol. 

In Gibson's prescient vision of the future technological progress leads to a host of new problems including an even greater divide between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots.'  Perhaps anime is the proper medium to adapt one of Gibson's classic cyberpunk novels.  His books excel in describing a potential future full of unexpected, yet rationally extrapolated technologies -- a vision which is enriched with narrative complexity and saturated with a bleak world view creating a heady combination that has so far defied translation to film with the sole (and not terribly successful) exception of Johnny Mnemonic, which was based on a short story rather than one of Gibson's infinitely more complex novels.