William Gibson's IDORU to be made into an anime

[jboncha]

I was talking to my uncle over the weekend, he's doing work with MadHouse (the anime studio behind Perfect Blue, Ninja Scroll. Paprika, Metropolis & many others), and he said they're in talks to turn Gibson's IDORU into an anime.
The only Gibson book I had heard of, not read yet, is Neuromancer (the 1980s boook that originatd the term "cyberspace") so IDORU is new to me.
From what I've read about it and from what I know about Gibson's work I can only imagine that this would be a great project.
What do you guy think of it?


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[Sanagi]

That's kind of funny, because when I read the book I thought, "This would probably seem new and exciting to someone who hadn't seen Macross Plus."

[Inkthinker]

Heh... yeah, it's something that can probably be adapted into anime fairly easily, but the concept of a virtual idol possibly isn't quite as revolutionary as it once was.

I'm surprised they don't go for something a little more action-packed, like Neuromancer or Count Zero.

[Paploo the Ewok]

It's interesting news but I can't help but think a Neuromancer anime'ld be cooler.

And a Snow Crash anime. Hiro Protagonist, SAVE US!

[Inkthinker]

People have been trying to make a Snow Crash movie/anime/anything happen for years... it's apparently so tangled up in production limbo that it's not likely we'll ever get it unless the right mover happens to read it and pulls all the strings to make it happen.