Wolfgang Petersen Confirms Paprika Plans
Director Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Poseidon) has confirmed for the MTV Splash Page that he is developing a live action film adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1993 sci-fi novel Paprika. Rumors of Petersen’s interest in the story first appeared in August 2009. Petersen told MTV, “We have a young writer on it, and he just delivered a very specific and detailed treatment… If that’s a go then he will write the screenplay and that will go very fast because the treatment is already very detailed. So I’m very excited about that. I would say it’s on the fast track.”
Petersen revealed that he was introduced to the story concept by director Satoshi Kon’s 2006 anime film adaptation. Petersen envision his adaptation of Paprika as a psychological sci-fi film with a “Matrix feel” in terms of scope and accessibility.
Source: Anime News Network
Related Posts
About The Author
john
Add a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
NOOOOOOOOOOO! There’s no point to a live-action Paprika when you got Inception around the corner.
I love how he feels the need to point out he found out about the novel through Kon’s film. No shit. You obviously would have never heard about the novel if you had never seen the film.
It seems like the prevailing excuse for derivative garbage is that “well, we’re basing it on the source material you based your movie on, so technically, we’re not ripping off your movie.”
The Leone excuse.