Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan to Direct a Live-Action Adaption of Paprika

Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan will govt produce and direct Paprika, a live-action collection primarily based on the Yasutaka Tsutsui novel of the identical title. The movie shall be a collaboration between Amazon Studios and Hivemind, in response to Deadline.

Many individuals know of Paprika due to the 2006 anime movie by Satoshi Kon, which is taken into account by many to be a masterpiece. As Deadline reminds us, “Paprika is a character-driven sci-fi series with a mind-bending narrative centering around a technology that allows us to invade people’s dreams.” Many works have been in comparison with Paprika, together with Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which has a really related premise.

Yan famously turned the primary Asian lady to direct a big-budget superhero film–Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn—in 2020. (Chloé Zhao turned the second in 2021 with Eternals.) Loads of the visible stylings and directorial selections Yan made bled immediately into The Suicide Squad, as Harley Quinn’s aptitude for the incredible carried over into James Gunn’s movie. I’m certain that anime purists would possibly bemoan yet one more live-action adaptation of their favourite story, however I gotta say that Yan’s eccentric eye and aptitude for the dramatic will undoubtedly render Paprika an unbelievable expertise.

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