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 ]
November 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I swear to god if I see freakin Jessica Biel or some other such Californian meat head with nice abs cast as Kusanagi I am going to go to the set and vomit on the director.
Why does America have to get their crude little paws on everything good from Japan and desecrate it with their inability to understand complexity and nuance by reinventing it into some hollywood blockbuster piece of shyte?
Nothing good can come from this - the latest example of horror - Dragonball Z. God save Anime
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 am
I am a huge fan of GitS and would love to see a live action movie if its done right… If they screw up Major theres no way the movie will succeed. And as for the cast being all asian doesnt really matter the characters are mostly cyborg and can choose their prosthetics and whatever they want to look like. Also there better not be any super main stream hollywood actors, they just wouldnt be able to get deep enough to play the style and demeanor of the characters from gits. My suggestions would be:
Major- Holly Vance - Christie from DOA
Chief- Dustin Hoffman - I think he could handle the seriousness
Batou- Chris Jericho - yes hes from wwe but he was an actor first
Togusa- Marc Paul Gosselaar or Paul Rudd
Ishikawa- Becinio de Torro - imagine a beard and the voice
I was thinking Keanu for Pazu but i dont want to reference the matrix haha ^_^