Wolfgang Petersen has made quite a name for himself by having such a cool name. I mean, come on, the dude’s name is Wolfgang. A Wolfgang sounds like something Twilight needs more of (think: characters from Stand and Deliver, but werewolves). Ever since making one of the greatest children’s’ stories of all time (The Neverending Story), it's been all downhill for Peterson. Maybe that means he should get back into kids movies, but instead he's adapting anime.

Moviehole reports that Petersen will be adapting Yasutaka Tsutsui’s Paprika, a novel about a female therapist who must find a stolen machine that allows one enter someone’s dreams. The book has already been adapted as an anime once, back in 2006.

This has the potential to be a pretty cool thriller, and all Wolfgang needs to do is get a decent special effects department to handle some sweet dream sequences. Unfortunately, that probably won’t happen, and we’ll probably end up getting the same old and tired CG effects that every movie ever released has. Lame.