Paprika - the next live-action project

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Trevor Lash

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Technically, it's based on a novel, but is more widely known as an anime at least here. So, there.

Wolfgang Petersen - best known for directing Das Boot, The Neverending Story, Air Force One, and Poseidon - wants to do Paprika. He likes the story after being exposed to the Madhouse/Satoshi Kon visual trip-fest and thinks it can reach a mainstream audience. He already received a treatment for it and wants to put it on the "fast track".

Wow. I remeraber watching the bonus features of Paprika, when the creators commented that it would be too expensive/visual-effects-heavy to make a live-action Paprika or give that sort of adaptation justice. Then again, a few years later with better technology, I think a live-action Hollywood adaptation of Paprika could be done well and probably be insane in 3D.
 
Hey if James can make Avatar, this guy can Paprika, in fact I'd hope if this goes forward it's done in 3D. I mean sure minRAB may be blown right out of a few peoples heaRAB but hey that's the price of good movies.
 
But... but the whole point of Kon's Paprika was to push animation to its full potential!

However, since this is the guy who directed the original The Neverending Story, he may just be able to pull it off.
 
I somehow expect this movie will be 98% animation anyway (don't see how the motion-capture hybrid technique would work here). Might as well pull a Turkish Star Wars and have live-actors standing in front of video screens playing the action scenes from the original movie. It'll be pretty much the same effect.

Does anyone else find it offensive that the director said "That will be a very very interesting movie" right after watching the movie? If he saw the movie, and thought it was interesting, wouldn't he have said "that was" rather than "that will be"? Or does animation not count as a "real movie" in his mind?
 
How many people have seen Mirrormask? You can do trippy dream sequence stuff on a budget. Marry the puppetry and stop motion of that with high tech CGI and you could do it... it would help if he could hire McKean for Art Direction though.

If they went the full CGI "realistic" look for it, if Peterson is thinking more along the lines of "The Matrix" as he hints, then i could be a big stinky dud.
 
I agree with you. Why does this need to be re-made into live action when there's a perfectly good RECENT animated movie version of it?

There are plenty of books out there that don't have movies, I would prefer they make a movie out of one of those.
 
http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie-news/6337/wolfgang-petersen-adapting-paprika-anime

I loved Paprika, but I don't see something that is so dependent on the medium of animation working as live-action at all.
 
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