I'm withholding judgment until more details arrive. This does have the chance to be something epic and awesome that will being a greater number of people into Kon-san's work. Sadly, the budget to do this rig may not be there.

I'll wait for now, though my suck-o-meter is tingling slightly.

Dear Wolfgang Peterson,

plz dont fuck this up

kthx

DO NOT WANT!

Only Stanley Kubrick could have done this justice. Since that's impossible, just leave it alone... especially if Troy and Air Force One is all you have of note.

good luck maintaining the perfection

I think I'm going to be sick

For chrissakes.

"So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience."

Translation: "dumb it down, and take out everything that makes it unique and interesting".

Do. Not. Want.

Yeah Im thinking DO NOT WANT

Not good...I don't want it
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I don't think this is going to happen. Every other live action anime adaptation has flopped. Do we really think something by Satoshi Kon can be adapted to be a mainstream hit?

Yeah, not sure Im liking the directors take on it. "mainstream audience"... hmm yeah I agree in the US, for a movie, that means what Firestorm said. Basically mess it up completely change the story to some extent and make it into some random action flick.

Yeah, I totally lose faith in ANY director as soon as they say they want to make it more accessible to a mainstream audience. That's what they said about Dragonball, and look how that turned out. It became even less mainstream than the original product.

They should kick Wolfgang Petersen off this project and get Terry Gilliam. No concerns about dumbing down or accessibility with him.

Why do we need another Paprika? We already have a Paprika! Did this Petersen guy not know that we already have a Paprika?

I don't understand making other versions of things that already exist!!!

IT ALREADY EXISTS! WE'VE ALREADY GOT ONE!

Do you think they heard me? No? ...dang.

If you want to make something different from something, then make a new thing, don't make a different version of a thing that's already there! Write your own story, and make a movie of that! It'll be fun! Really! You can do it!

Caca and Fooey to this.

Like Papasan said, Paprika IS movie; what the hell is this director talking about? so because it's not live action but animated can't be considered a movie? That's bullshit if I ever heard it.

Want to show us Paprika? then put the movie on our theaters; don't come with this nonsense of doing a movie based on a movie. Besides, Paprika is perfect as it is.

They should try to make their own stories instead of leeching off. Damn directors, they sure got lazy.

I think a good art director could make it work well. They'll have to make it differently, but in a live action film the visual difference between the "real" world and the "dream" world could be much more dramatic with today's modern special effects.

I kind of think that it would be cool if Cronenberg directed it, but he already did eXistenZ (awesome movie, btw).

So umm.... who's going to be the now mildly attractive and slightly overweight actor to take the roll of that over indulgent extremely fat scientist? Was I the only one repulsed by that character by the way?

i really really hope that one day some director will actually do an anime justice in Hollywood. I just don't believe this is the guy that will do it... here's hoping.

Erm, Wolfgang Petersen directing? That's not confidence inspiring for me. Who's adapting it to screenplay?

I love how he basically says "Oh we are gonna slaughter it so it's no longer the movie it could have and should have been just so the stupid people can understand it"

Lets get something straight Hollywood. If the property will not ALREADY appeal to a mass market in it's current state THEN LEAVE IT ALONE AND DON'T MAKE A MOVIE.

Stop destroying the creators original vision and making fans angry. That is why these movies fail and no one wants to seem them.

"We open it up a little bit more so it's more accessible for a wide audience."

Famous last words. This is why I wish Hollywood would just hold off on these adaptations until the next generation takes control of the industry. Find a real fan to direct, you bloated studio fucktards.

Nerd rage? Really? It's not like the statement *means* anything other than "hey, mainstream audiences who have no clue what the fuck Paprika is, this is cool and you should be interested."

Granted, the film could still totally fail, but if it does, it's not going to be because the director has a sliver of marketing sense and therefore compared it to the Matrix.

my prediction: balls will be sucked.

"the man behind Troy and Air Force One"

Do not want.

Almost all adaptions of Anime or even Asian cinema into Hollywood fair has failed. Just like how nearly every game adaption has failed. Why does everyone continue to think it will work if they just do it one more time?

Not making a formal statement-having not seen or just can't recall Paprika at the moment- That comment worries me. The moment you start sacrificing tiny pieces of the source content you slowly begin the process of killing your adaption. Don't make sacrifices to "Appeal to a Larger Audience" because at the end of the day the "Larger Audience" might not even come to your movie, let alone enjoy it. And by that time, when you look back for a cult audience that loves the source material, you'll find they abandoned you because you tried to change whatever made the source great by changing the tone, or messing with little things. You can make as many eye winking references to the source as you want, that won't change the spirit and soul of the original source that audience wants to see.

You NEVER make concessions to appeal to a larger audience. You grab every single member of the audience and make them KNOW what they want to see. Even if it's absurd, by the time it happens in the movie, a good film maker can convince you it's EXACTLY what you want to see happen.

Guessing what they want to see, never ever ever helps a movie. Which is why that comment worries me.

Er.

The source material was a short magazine novella, not an anime, and I'm fairly certain the anime took quite a lot of liberties in its adaptation. Where was your outrage then, nerds?

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It was being adaptated by Satoshi Kon, a man proven in his field. This "Air Force One" guy? Not exactly in the same league.

David Fincher took a lot of liberties with "The Curious Case of Benjamen Button", turning a short story into a 4 hour movie. We accepted it, because Fincher proved himself with films like Fight Club and Se7en - and it lived up to expectations, at least in my eyes.

Petersen can not make the same boast.

Das Boot is pretty well-regarded.

I'll grant that he's erred a lot more towards overproduced schlock since, but then, all the projects he's done since have had pretty shallow subject matter to begin with. If he was interested in phoning in a proven formula yet again, there's no shortage of more suited material out there. I'm intrigued that he took an interest in Paprika, it seems quite outside his comfort zone. Could be a negative, could be a positive.

I... what?

"We open it up a little bit more so it's more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of Matrix. Not like Matrix but sort of the size of it all, the scope of it all. So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience."

tl;dr: "We're taking a good movie and making it 'mainstream'... which means we're going to make it suck."

The words Satoshi Kon and "Matrix" should never meet ever again. No, just... no. Keep your hands off this movie.

Leave me out of this one! I do not need to see a re-made movie of a movie. Especially one that really uses the wonderful usage of animation to explore the bizarre concepts (that parade scene is awesome in animation, I can only envision a travesty in "CG").

I mean, wasn't this already released to theatres? Granted it was dubbed but it was still better than having it remade...