Ghost in the Shell Live Action Going Strong
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 24, 2009 18:00 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Dreamworks, Ghost in the Shell, Hollywood, Masamune Shirow
Masamune Shirow’s legendary cyberpunk franchise Ghost in the Shell has had its Hollywood adaptation in the works for some time now, with the latest news being that Dreamworks has assigned Laeta Kalogridis as lead writer.
Seasoned writer Kalogridis is taking over from Jamie Moss, who was originally set to adapt the popular Japanese franchise to a more western market.
She has written scripts for a number of Hollywood films, and is also involved with the Hollywood adaptation of Battle Angel Alita, apparently with few disasters to her credit (although she did help write a Tomb Raider movie).
Also involved in this project are Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment. Avi Arad, formerly of Marvel, has been involved with many of Marvel’s TV and movie adaptations, including such titles as Spider Man and The Hulk.
Dreamworks has planned this adaptation as a “Live Action 3D”, presumably implying a heavy CG component, just as with the anime and even manga versions.
Fans will undoubtedly be watching with bated breath to see how Hollywood handles this major franchise and whether another embarrassingly successful rape ensues.
With such titles as Ghost in the Shell and Battle Angel Alita in the works (and less promisingly, Akira), it seems Hollywood may now be doing more to further the fortunes of anime as an art form than the industry itself, which appears lately to have devolved into obsessively cannibalising an increasingly sterile set of schoolgirl themed titles for the sake of a narrow niche market… Even Hollywood has a long way to sink before it reaches the depths of the moe boom.
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My, God...When well it end...this rape of things that are good.
*raping of things that are good, by Follywood.
Ghost in the Shell was already raped when they remade the movie with 3D effects.
Ghost in the Shell 2nd animation movie was indeed overdone and worst of the franchise.
However GitS plot and setting is actually more like action movies Hollywood has done already, and therefore less likely to be a fail. Unlike Yankee DragonballZ.
Fuck that fucking fuck of a fucking fuck fuck fuckityfuck fuck.... FUCK!!!
(Translation: I strongly disliked Dragon Ball Evo.)
never watched the anime nor play the game but it sounds cool so i won't miss this ^^
Darkrockslizer:
That is why I hope this goes well. There is 80% less than usual that Hollywood can fuck up this time. If the writer keeps the story true to the anime, and they don't sex-up Kusanagi like they do EVERY female action character in the west, then I will be (somewhat) pleased.
I could be good, even really good. But probably they'll fuck it up, anyway...
i wish they could get at lest one right. why in the hell don't they at lest let some of the fans or the people who actually worked on the manga and anime in on it to help.
why hire your own fucking writers.
There to cheap to pay the original people who worked on it.
Even though the people they hire are probably getting paid more.
Typical corporate thinking.
We call them Writer Unions.
Unions: Job security by fucking everyone else over.
They should at least hire dedicated fans who only want the best for the series. I can't stand watching interviews with the cast and crew of a Hollywood movie based off a comic, game, or anime/manga. They always say what big fans they are of the original series which is complete bullshit. As if they ever watched/read/played, let alone heard of, the original series. A true fan would never want to be a part of something that rapes the series.
That's right. I know if I were interested in investing a crapload of money in a project that needs to make a profit, I would want to hire a bunch of serious and committed fans, who would spend weeks arguing over minor points and spend half their time sulking if their lame suggestions were shot down.
Fans as creative geniuses, what could go wrong?
General public making movies is a surefire way to make a trainwreck.
the end of man is over , the age of vile orc has began
Actually, the age of vile orcs would be fun.
We can have a WAAAGH! every week! We don't need to do anything and worry about anything other than stomping, chopping, Choppaz, Shootaz, Squigs and WAAAGH!
Needs more Dakka.
"Heavy CG?" I pray to every currently recognized deity not to let this look like speed racer.
This might be a success if they shy away from playing up the "sexy woman with a gun" theme and highlight some of the things that set GitS apart from other "sexy woman with a gun" anime. The ramifications of the society and culture of the anime's setting, as well as highlighting aspects of how it differs from our own (aside from the obvious cyborg thing). You know, like a number of the better films based on Philip K. Dick's works.
Something tells me this is going to be worse than Johnny Mnemonic and Tank Girl the movie combined. ;_;
<<never!!!! lets start an anti hollywood anime army!
YES, You shall gather the army, while I gather the weapons. Who's with us!
meh...
^ You meant "Me" or "meh"?
If it's "meh", you FUCKING HOLLYWOOD NUB
lolwut
let me restate what he said...
meh....
meh: its a sound japanese sheep make
Translator's note: meh means meh.
So we have weapons and people now! so whats next?
This does not look promising at all. You called for soldiers but the only ones who enlisted are sheeps?
Meh...
ANOOOOONNN!!!! WHAT IZ YOUR PROFESSION!?!?!!!?!!!1
Uh... a FAPPING FAPPER!!! Sir!
How about Japan makes a movie with a Hollywood-size budget.
That would mean the young animators would be over payed for doing their job.
Like 20th Century Boys? The entire trilogy.
Isn't that supposed to be amazing?
It is amazing.
However, it suffers A LOT from the "acting".
Asian actors are really just horrible at times. They might stick true to the reactions of the manga, but in a live-action movie its just unnatural.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219827/
This will take more than two years.
too early to hope for anything.
Then I will start building my giant robots to destroy them!
Japan is already on it.
could definitely be good ghost in a shell is one adaptation hollywood would easily be capable of making.
If they were willing to, yes. But you'll never see them taking adaptations of funny Chinese cartoons seriously. Never.
I'm just waiting for hollywood to start raping moe part of anime too.
Hollywood doesn't do moe, they do sexy. They think that Americans won't watch anything that's not violent, sexy, or filled with unfunny overused jokes. The few times Hollywood does something cute it usually involves animals in a kids movie.
Let's just hope that Hollywood doesn't try something new and make a live action adaption of a moe anime. God knows that American girls CANNOT act moe. They can try to act tsundere at the most but it usually just comes off as bitchy.
+1
Hollywood shouldn't touch the Ghost in the Shell franchise. Every single live action Hollywood adaptation wasn't good.
You are not wrong there.
Actually the most japanese adaptions aren't good as well.
What happens in 2D stays in 2D.
Well it'll be fun to see with a group of friends at least.
Animate live action sucks. Rebuild in 3D is better...
"adapt the popular Japanese franchise to a more western market"
Fuck NO!
ill gather the lolis
sadly, Failwood will prolly strike again, seeing how almost all of the translations miss the mark by a mile.
Mile being the distance between Pluto and the Sun.
bleh.... soo unhappy
I already know this is going to suck! I mean who is going to play the major? A typical skinny a$$ hollywood b#$%h that doesn't look like her in the least? And why would we need a "live-action" crap anyway? This is definetly not for the fans, just for the people who never heard of gits in the first place and they probably won't like it either. I really hope this and all future "live-action" adaptations sell bad so they can stop this madness! What's next? Vampire Hunter "live-action" or maybe Bible-Black(lol) "live-action"!
The latter one would be quite interesting actually, just too bad that it would be XXX rated.
I wouldn't mind a bible black live action if it wouldn't be for the fact that they will hire ugly, bad acting porn stars. Most of the girls in Bible black have attitudes that American actresses can preform faithfully, being manipulative whores that will fuck anyone and everyone for their own personal gain.
Oi, they gonna create trashes out of those wonderful origin. I must admit most path of the movie aren't too bad but the simple story line and no emotions deep ruin all !!! An artistic work without soul is worthless.
This mild also lead to a big fail~
This was obvious, Hollywood is making shitty popcorn movies not good movies.
A new time has come... People must be wanting this, why else would it be made?
Nobody is waiting for this. They are just doing this to make easy money off of the people who will see it just to complain later about it.
If they can make the film bloody good they should make it, I do not want to see a great anime/manga like this be ruined by a stupid live(CG) film.
They should just remake the first film, there no reason to 'adopt it in a western style' that will fecking ruining it!! haha.
and for the love of all the monkeys in the world GOOD ACTORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, Hollywood should fire all the actors and replace them with monkeys?
I want more of that 3D motoko you got there.
I like rape
i like turtles
i like waffles
too bad waffles don't like you
That's why we eat the waffles!
I like delicious cake.
The cake is a lie.
i love lamp
this is going to suck
ghost in the shell sucked already
They'll just add in to the suck
I have no hopes for this Ghost in the Shell movie till I know who is set to Direct it. If they get a good director that is competent and knows how to tell his writers to fuck off back to the drawing board to write something better and more true to the Ghost in the shell story, then It could possibly be good.
Atleast with Battle Angel Alita, James Cameron is going to direct it. I got hopes for Battle Angel more than Ghost in the Shell right now.
I think I heard somewhere that Spielberg wanted to do it. That was a while ago and I don't know if he still wants to.
AVI FUCKING GRREDY JEW ARAD ? and the writer of tomb raider movies ?
TOTAL DISASTER !!
Wasn't planning on watching it but god I'm really getting tired of all these anime live-action adaptions. I'm also really getting tired of all these 3D movies.
2D>3D. Truth.
3D in 3D? Double fail!
Don't tell me, Motoko will be played by American actress.Disgusting...
a blond with an arse 3 times your head. now have fun!
She probably won't be able to pronounce Motoko's name either, unless they decide to give her a more American name instead.
Oh, you described your mother just now? In that case, no thanks.
Dreamworks knows what they're doing. I think that they could make a good job of it.
"Adapt for Western audiences" means that Section 9 is probably going to be a part of the NSA and the crap will probably happen in a US city -_-
This reminds me of Level 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_9_%28TV_series%29 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_9_(TV_series)] that damned show ripped off gits right down to a hot asian woman doing most of the ass kicking.
First I'm like woohoo 3d Motoko but then I remember the horror of Dragon ball Evo and what a load of suck that was and how Hollywood rapes everything they get a hold of anymore.
Well there's a slight chance they might not completely screw it up.
As long as they stick with a SAC style story line and avoid butchering it in the name of being politically correct they might not screw it up.
Why are all movies in 3D these days? Who's dumb idea was it to bring back this stupid fad?
Ensuing reap? Yes. But if they stick to the SAC style they might get it... ok not right but at least less of a reap... more like a chikan grope.
I disagree, Stephen Spielberg is the Producer last I heard, He's already an accomplished sci-fi filmmaker, and he also did the movie, A.I., which had many of the same themes as GitS as far as the nature of the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Sentience.
I admit there's still a chance of horrible failure but I'm slightly optimistic for this one.
We'll our fingers crossed... but I think for most of us fans even if it's good... because of the differences we'll probably won't like it. Hard when you're used to a story and you see it with changed names, look, language etc.
If they fuck this up....-__-.
On a side note, if Hollywood ever tried moe, I think I'd off myself.
Rape or no rape, this kind of stuff does pour huge amounts of money into the anime industry. You can certainly choose to ignore the final product, but hope that it continues so that studios can come up with better products.
Lol, but GitS already have hollywood adaptation. It's called Blade Runner.
Blade Runner came before GitS, and it's quite different in many aspects.
Obvious joke is obvious. Settings may be diffrent, but both of them gives similar feelings. You could even say that Blade Runner is spiritual ancestor of GitS.
Why do those fools in Hollywood think American fans want to see a dumbed down westernized version of a Japanese cartoon? You can bet their just going to give us two hours of nonstop gun play with a little simplified philosophy, just enough not to offend the bible thumpers. And not even the redeeming benefit of any tits so they can get a lousy PG13 rating, the killer of great movies, just look what happened to Blade, two R rated movies, excellent, one PG13 rated, garbage.
Well, I'm grateful for some of those works and will still enjoy them no matter what form of anal reaping they all will suffer from the minions of hollyweird.
This will make it even more amazing if one does do it right to my eyes...
My gosh Hollywood leave our anime alone already it wasn't enough to take DBZ and screw it up they have to do this too!
Maybe G.I.T.S movie might go for a G/PG rating?
and pull in more profit on dvd with unrated extras?
Ghost in the Shell would probably make a decent live action movie, but I don't see what purpose it would serve.
GitS would make a better Buddy Cop movie , if you ask me.
nice hope it s any good
so who is going to play motoko?
Asia Carrera? :P
But more seriously..
Marie Eguro, Gina Hiraizumi, Janice Kawaye, Ariane Koizumi, Suzy Nakamura, Sophie Oda, Tamlyn Tomita, are the correct ethnic background.
But they're probably going to pick a Chinese-American or Korean-American, because they can't tell the difference anyway.
stay the f*ck out of my world, hollywood.
''They've signed on Laeta Kalogridis for scriptwriting duties.'' She's also has a hand in another anime adaptation with her collaboration with James Cameron for Battle Angel Alita where she's listed as a screen writer. Let me just add that the James Cameron Battle Angel Alita project has been scrapped the last I checked. Ghost In The Shell is my favorite series, and I hate to say this but this is most likely going to be an ''Epic Fail'' They need to leave this in the hands of where it originated from! The problem is that we as Americans just can't come up with our own ideas so we have to take what isn't ours. Take Cowboy Bebop The Movie for example with Keanu Reeves - another ''Epic Fail'' If these ideas ever see the light of day, they will just be dark marks/shit stains on shows that are perfect they way they are. Dreamworks and Keanu Reeves, ''Leave it alone.''
Why.....damnit why must they rape anime......did they not learn their lesson with that abomniation that was DragonBall.....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
They're gonna rape this anime!! x3
GHOST IN THE SHELL ROCKS!!! so I'm definitely keeping my eye out for this. I hope it won't be a disappointment like the other Hollywood adaptation/remake. although with its track record, not so hopeful.
btw, I heard that instead of setting in Japan, it'll set in Hong Kong, but will the story still be about Japan's National Publice Safety Commission, Section 9? Cuz it would be a real bitch if it's not even be about them and instead creating some other counterpart.
What better way to destroy a perfectly good title than to make a fucking Hollywood adaptation.
Fuck Hollywood.
It better have a lot of 'pauses' and naked robots, or it's gonna fail.