'Paprika's live-action TV adaptation secures 'Birds of Prey' director, Cathy Yan.
Writer/director Cathy Yan is set to direct and executive produce Paprika, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s famous novel by the same name for Amazon Studio and Hivemind, Deadline has reported.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Tsutsui’s mind-bending novel was first published in 1993 and a Manga adaptation was released in 2003. In 2006, the novel was adapted as an animated film starring Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Furuya, Akio Ōtsuka, and more which was then adapted into a second Manga feature by Eri Sakai. Yan’s work would be the first live-action version of the novel.Yan has features like the Sundance award-winning comedy-drama Dead Pig , and According to My Mother , to her credit.