Ghost in the Shell Live Action
Steven Spielberg says he likes Ghost in the Shell, therefore DreamWorks shall make live action Ghost in the Shell movie. First we have Dragonball, Akira and now this. I guess Marvel is officially running out of franchises to turn into movies.
Universal and Sony Pictures were apparently after the license too, but Steven’s star power bagged it for DreamWorks. Avi Arad (former CEO of Marvel Studios), Ari Arad and Steven Paul are producing the movie and Jamie Moss is in-charge of screenplay. I’m guessing Spielberg counts the money.
While Yahoo! News is eager to point out Avi Arad’s involvement in X-men, Spiderman and Fantastic Four, (which I guess are considered good movies by modern standards) I find it an ominous sign that all three producers worked on Ghost Rider together, because that was one of the worst Marvel movie adaptations I have ever watched.
[ Source: Yahoo! News ]
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April 26th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Americanisation spoils everything. Dragonball is supposed to be funny. God save Anime… sigh…
April 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Ah well, there’s always the chance they might pull something good off. You never know.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Oh god - Major is going to look hideous - please, no more Angelina Jolie-like actresses
April 29th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Those HORRIBLE adaptations should be banned. Jesus H. Christ, I am still trying to recover from that absurd Street Fighter movie with J.C Van Damme. And to make matters worse… there is news that Hollywood will try to make a NINJA SCROLL movie. Yes. THAT ninja scroll. `^_*
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May 10th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Got a really bad feeling about this one. Is Shirow Masamune even going to be involved? I get the feeling that it’s going to be Americanized to the extreme… like having Paris Hilton play the Major ><
August 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Richard Epcar, and William Knight must be pressed into service to play Motoko, Batou, and Aramaki! It just wouldn’t work with anyone else’s voices coming out of those character’s mouths. With just marginal makeup effects, they each already look like their GitS counterparts. Just look them up on http://tvrage.com/
The other parts can be played by almost anybody.
Ethan Hawk as Togusa.
Jet Li as Saito.
Michael Chiklis as Borma.
Robert Patrick as Pazu.
Ryan Gosling as Ishikawa, because I like his beard.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 am
I’m sorry but no. Hell no. For starters, GiTS is set in Japan with characters who have prosthetic bodies that resemble people of Japanese descent. But that’s Hollywood for you. It’s just like the upcoming DBZ movie, where they’re casting a white American to play the role of Goku. Anyone who knows the series knows that Goku is supposed to be of “Asian” descent. Oh let me guess, because he’s an alien from another planet, he doesn’t have to be Asian. Hmmmm…heroic character from another planet, who does that sound like!? Let’s be honest people, Goku is an Asian character from another planet much like Superman is a so called “white” character from another planet. Truly, if they feel Goku can be played by a “white” actor simply because he’s an alien, then the same can be said about an Asian actor playing Superman.
I’m reminded of another upcoming movie based off a video game franchise: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The Persian Prince is being played by Jake Gyllenhal, an actor who, if any, has no Middle Eastern ancestry. What’s more is that his love interest in the movie Farrah(they changed her name), an Indian(Hindu) princess, is being played by a European actress. I’m sorry but that’s a huge insult to the actors out there who are of Middle Easter/Indian descent who are fluent in English.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
NooooooOOoooOOOooOOOoo
3 of my favorite animations being made into an AMERICAN interpretation. NOOOooooOoooo. Why does hollywood have to leave their pen0r in everything!
September 15th, 2008 at 6:06 am
no one on earth could play the well known sector 7 members without as one man so elequenly put it screwing the pooch on this one any one expecting a good movie will be sadly disappointed plus the screen writters chops have yet to be seen even with spielberg at the helm im affraid this ones going rms lusitania on us
October 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I just can’t believe it. I mean, I am actually for a live action GITS film. I am for it being 3D. I even think it is totally fine that it will be a Hollywood movie (in reality, you need huge $$$$ to achieve the kind of production value needed for this kind of film, which is really only possible in Hollywood). But Speilberg? Jamie Moss? Ari Arad!? Ghost in the shell is fundamentally NOT a Marvel comic kind of work. You do not get comic book guys to do this movie. Fundamentally it has always been about unforgiving technoerotica, with any protaganist being completely antiheroic. Aescetically it should touch on filme noir. I don’t understand. Wouldn’t Ridley Scott love to do this? Curtis Hanson? Hell, I would even take John Wu. At any rate, what is wrong with Kenji Kamiyama? It’s good that they didn’t tap Oshii (it wouldn’t work at all) but Kamiyama had been living and breathing this for half a decade! And there is a well sampled American demographic that subscribes to his work.
Anyway, basically I have lots of my own ideas about this, and I see a lot of potential for a total disaster. I do hope very much, however, that despite all evidence to the contrary, this team that has been formed pulls it off. I volunteer for the focus group!
November 5th, 2008 at 1:52 am
I DO NOT WANT TO SEE HOLLYWOOD DO THIS TO JAPANESE ANIME!!
Spielberg only has one movie that gives him the experience to work with this famous anime, and that was Minority Report. But Minority Report is a far cry away from Ghost in the Shell’s complexity. Furthermore, Jamie Moss only has one screenwriting credit to his name, which proved to be the worst screenplay of that year in films.
To tackle a powerhouse like Ghost takes a lot of experience. Ghost has 3 theatrical films, 3 manga series, a TV series spin-off that went on for 2 seasons (and was ended at the high of its popularity, and 2 or 3 videogames.
Akira is the same. As it is that have moved the setting for the film to Neo- Manhattan. I don’t know much about this production, but what I do here about is that they want Leo DeCap in it, and the director only has one film credit under his belt, and it wasn’t even a neo-futurist film either. That one is sure to disappoint. I will likely not even bother.
But the one film that I have total faith in is James Cameron’s Battle Angel. James has the Terminator series under his belt as well as the first season of Dark Angel. These are the perfect ingredients to bring Battle Angel to life. Furthermore James is actually working hand in hand with the original creator of Battle Angel to bring this to life. Not to mention of few outside of Hollywood consulting projects that James has done involving foreign film companies.