“Sweet Paprika” Animated Adaptation Gets New Producers

Earlier this year we told you about the animated adaptation of Sweet Paprika in the works and now we know that the franchise has added a couple of heavyweights that will most certainly see this project get picked up somewhere. New producers Wild Sheep Content features former Netflix VP Erik Barmack who has joined Sweet Paprika in an attempt to get the project distribution for Mirka Andolfo’s project.

Sweet Paprika will be directed by Gabriele Pennacchiolo and produced by Arancia Studio and Gray Ladder Productions.

Based on a series of sketches shared initially on social media, SWEET PAPRIKA follows the erotic misadventures of a career-driven woman—Paprika—who reluctantly engages a charming, if immature, delivery boy named Dill. Though Andolfo has only hinted at this story through her drawings, her fanbase has quickly embraced the mismatched devil-and-angel couple, requesting sketch commissions and even cosplaying as the pair at major conventions.

Andolfo describes SWEET PAPRIKA as an urban fairy tale for adults, carrying the coming-of-age themes of The Devil Wears Prada mixed with the progressive, feminist romance of Bridget Jones’s Diary and Sex and the City.

SWEET PAPRIKA takes place in a world similar to ours, but inhabited by characters with the appearance of angels and devils. Protagonist Paprika is a New Yorker of Italian origin, working endless hours as a Chief Creative Officer at a publisher in the center of the thriving metropolis. Far from a traditional princess, Paprika’s job and career drive consume her, forcing her to neglect her personal needs as well as her relationships with friends and family.

[h/t: Variety]