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William Gibson's Idoru Coming to Anime
Now Playing Magazine, Thursday, 20 April 2006
Steyermark's films Prey for Rock N Roll or One Last Thing, but if he's the guy who finally cracks the William Gibson movie, he'll be our hero. One of his next projects is an adaptation of Idoru, which will be a Japanese anime film.
The studio people that were reading the script all loved it, Steyermark says."They said, 'This is a $150 million movie.' One of them came back and said, 'How would you feel about doing this as an anime film?' I thought that is really cool, really creative...."
...there hasn't been much Gibson on film yet. "It was extremely tough. It's interesting because all of his books have been optioned. None of them have been made into a movie. I'm so on pins and needles about the fact that this could be the first one that goes. Not including Johnny Mnemonic which was really a short story that he wrote. I'm hoping that it all falls into place but adapting it was really difficult. Look, The Matrix is an acknowledged rip off of Mona Lisa Overdrive and Neuromancer and Gibson is known as the father of cyberpunk." ...more..