Ghost In The Shell To Be Remade In 3-D Dreamworks to resurrect Manga classic
The following story will either get Manga fans salivating with anticipation or tearing their Hello Kitty dolls apart in sheer exasperation… So, you know, fair warning given.
News reaches us, via Variety, that DreamWorks Pictures has acquired the rights to the Japanese anime classic Ghost In The Shell and the studio plans to turn it into a live action 3-D thriller.
A potential franchise in waiting, the smash-hit series about a futuristic police force which specialises in technology-related crime was first published in 1989, going on to generate two additional Manga editions, three anime film adaptations, a cartoon TV series and three video games.
The follow-up anime film, Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence, was released in the US by DreamWorks in 2004 so it’s fair to say that the project will be treated with the right amount of reverence by the Spielberg-fronted studio.
“Ghost In The Shell” is one of my favorite stories," says The Big Beard. "It's a genre that has arrived and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."
Yet another project set to receive the extra-dimensiony treatment (the same company’s new Ice Age and Shrek flicks are also going 3-D), Masamune Shirow’s beloved series is all Blade Runner-esque dystopia and eye-bursting action, which should lend itself well to the increasingly popular format.
Street Kings co-scribe Jamie Moss has been hired to write the screenplay but there is no news on plot of cast details yet. Watch this space for all the latest developments.
While a shiny new live action version could drum up a new audience to admire the inspiration for the Matrix I can't help feeling that the elements of brilliance which made GitS so iconic will be lost. For me GitS was (is) at it's greatest as an anime and nothing else, the new one could just rip the most convienient parts out of the series and slap them onto the big screen with "ammendments" to make it more mainstream friendly.
For instance; instead of setting it in Japan, relocate the M... Read More
Quite simply NO! The franchise is too big, well made and current to warrant a remake for any other reason other than profit or to pandering to narrow minded Americans or Brits who can't process anything that isn't set in or has an American or British protagonist. ... Read More
Note that it says i] to make. Honestly, they're going to show a clip show of the movies to the head honchos and it's going to be:
'Now the woman robut thing cartwheeling around nude is great, but does she have to be so serious?'
'Make her blonde, everything else is dark anyway. And would it kill her to wear some lipstick and mascara?'
'And why so much talking, just make an army out of that spidery tank thing at the end and have them invade the city.'
Anime/manga adapt... Read More
I'm still fretting over the U.S live action Akira and another one I love is being U.S'ed. Being converted from Asia to the States as been full of failures (check any asian horror movies remade in the U.S). ... Read More
i'm not liking it. i'd leave it as it is, ie- brilliant.
the only way it could envisage it working would be with someone like angelina jolie. but she's already got Tomb Raider franchise, so she probably wouldnt be up for this.
but then if this works, what's next? Akira?
i thought they were planning a Blood:Last Vampire live action film?
if they are going to remake it, i'd prefer to have it remain animated at the very least in the style of FF:Advent Children.
so says I. haha. ... Read More
Not saying it cant work but it will probably fail. Where is the originality these days, everything seems to be a remake of something else. ... Read More
