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brendalaAccording to ANN, some director named Wolfgang Petersen is making a live-action, American version of Satoshi Kon's awesome animated film, Paprika.
....WHY!? Paprika is one of those movies that is tailor made for the medium of animation. Any live-action adaption is going to be chock full of (expensive) CGI anyway, so why not just animate the whole damn thing? I could get behind different animators doing shorts inspired by Paprika (a la the Animatrix or Batman:Gotham Knight) because that would be really cool and interesting. But this...well, this quote from Mr.Petersen sums up why I have low hopes for this thing quite well:
""Petersen notes that his representatives first introduced him to the story through Kon's anime film: "And I saw it and bingo, I thought this is fantastic. This is a great piece. That will be a very very interesting movie." Although he plans to make the story a little more accessible for a mainstream audience, he compares the story to The Matrix in its scope."""
Note to director: The Matrix was pretentious crap and 2/3 of those movies were impossible to sit through. Maybe Paprika was a bit pretentious, too. But at least it had Kon's killer visuals.
I hope this thing rots in the same development hell as the live-action American remakes of Evangelion and Akira.
....WHY!? Paprika is one of those movies that is tailor made for the medium of animation. Any live-action adaption is going to be chock full of (expensive) CGI anyway, so why not just animate the whole damn thing? I could get behind different animators doing shorts inspired by Paprika (a la the Animatrix or Batman:Gotham Knight) because that would be really cool and interesting. But this...well, this quote from Mr.Petersen sums up why I have low hopes for this thing quite well:
""Petersen notes that his representatives first introduced him to the story through Kon's anime film: "And I saw it and bingo, I thought this is fantastic. This is a great piece. That will be a very very interesting movie." Although he plans to make the story a little more accessible for a mainstream audience, he compares the story to The Matrix in its scope."""
Note to director: The Matrix was pretentious crap and 2/3 of those movies were impossible to sit through. Maybe Paprika was a bit pretentious, too. But at least it had Kon's killer visuals.
I hope this thing rots in the same development hell as the live-action American remakes of Evangelion and Akira.
