'Bashir' director eyes 'Congress'

December 18, 2008 The director has acquired rights to "The Futurological Congress," a short story from science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, and intends to write the screenplay and shoot the movie as a live-action/animated hybrid. Lem, who died in 2006, was a prolific writer who penned dozens of stories and novels, often with philosophical undertones. The animated doc generated buzz at Cannes before being picked up by Sony Pictures Classics; it tells the first-person story of Folman trying to recover memories from his time serving in the 1982 Israel-Lebanon war.

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