| Ari Folman is set to tap into the distinctive animated style used in the Golden Globe nominated Waltz With Bashir, in his next film - an adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem short story The Futurological Congress. This time, he will mix the technique with live action: "Think of your favorite young actress. She'll appear that way at the beginning, and then as the film goes on, she'll be drawn like she's 50." The Futurological Congress tells the story of a seemingly abundant utopian future which hides a dark and seedy drug-infested world beneath the surface. Folman, who plans to write the screenplay, will follow on from Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh in using Lem's stories as the basis for a film - both of the latter having filmed versions of his book Solaris. Often compared to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which went on to become Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, The Futurological Congress will provide the scope for Folman's surreal and dreamlike visuals. Meanwhile Scott himself is making progress on an adaptation of another famous distopian masterwork, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The director's autobiographical feature debut Waltz With Bashir is curently racking up nominations for animation gongs in the upcoming awards season. | 
