Veteran German producers Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and Michael Lehmann will adapt Max Sprenger's best-selling autobiography Tsunami im Kopf (Tsunami in the Head), about Sprenger's life with locked-in syndrome, for the screen.
German director Marco Petry (Heiter bis wolkig) will helm the feature and co-write the script with partner Janina Petry. Principle photography is planned for 2021 or 2022.
Sprenger's book, published in 2019, traces his experiences following a stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome, unable to move or speak.
Through his rehabilitation, Sprenger taught himself to move a single finger, which he used to type his book on his cell phone.
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