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Spielberg 3D Live Action "Ghost In A Shell"

Postby Mulboyne » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:45 am

[floatr]Image[/floatr]First Showing: Spielberg Adapting Ghost in the Shell into Live-Action 3D!
After 19 years since its debut in 1989, DreamWorks has finally secured the rights to adapt the Japanese manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell into a 3D live-action feature film. Both Universal and Sony were also chasing the rights, but Steven Spielberg himself took a personal interest in it and made sure it ended up in the hands of his company - DreamWorks. Spielberg says that Ghost in the Shell is one of his favorite stories and is "a genre that has arrived and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks." This plays off of the announcement from February that Akira, one of the other heralded Japanese anime properties, is being adapted by Warner Brothers as well...more...
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Postby bolt_krank » Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:46 am

Looks like they're running out of ideas ...

Still - I'd be looking forward to it. Transformers wasn't a great movie, but I loved watching it. I think this may be similar.
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Postby Kagetsu » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:03 am

It may not be a good movie, but if Spielberg has anything to do with the actual film production, it will almost certainly be fun to watch...

... Maybe JJ Abrams will direct it. ^O^

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Postby D-San » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:09 am

Maybe I should finally watch the Animated version.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:41 pm

People are already making speculations as to whom will play the cast
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Postby amdg » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:55 pm

If they're really adapting the series, rather than the movies, then I will be pleased.

Jolie can never play Motoko though. Even though I love Jolie, motoko is petite. She has to be petite and visually unimposing for the story to really work. Her, Aramaki and Batou are the only people I would really care about with regard to the casting decisions. Oh, and the voice actors for the tachikoma. They have to be children.
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Postby Tsuru » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:28 am

I think Christina Ricci would make a good Motoko... or Charlize Theron like in Aeon Flux. If they do the series, that is...
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Postby ttjereth » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:53 am

Tsuru wrote:I think Christina Ricci would make a good Motoko... or Charlize Theron like in Aeon Flux. If they do the series, that is...


Or maybe a Japanese actress :D

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Postby Tsuru » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:29 pm

Yeah... or a Chinese like Zhang Ziyi. ;) I think if it's going to be in English the options for good Asian actors are so limited you get what I call the Ken Watanabe effect or the Al Pacino effect. These guys have been in so many movies I see them on screen and I don't even think of them as actors anymore.
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