Comments on: Ghost in the Shell Live Action

By: Arturito

Arturito — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:33:27 +0000

@G-man
You are absolutely right. You forgot to add that Japanese have way more imagination and creativity than everyone else. If they’re going to make a movie, creators of The Matrix should do it.

Mickey Rourke as Batou – that could work. :)

By: Martin Smith

Martin Smith — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:13:54 +0000

This just cannot be a good thing if true. It would be a hard sell to a market that just isn’t familiar with “Ghost.” And the existing fan base is going to be very pissed off losing “The Laughing Man” premise when the storyline and characters have been dumbed-down to a 2 hour rehash of “Blade Runnerish” rumblings. I’ll pass.

By: Elijawan

Elijawan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:23:11 +0000

Gotta disagree with some of those casting decisions. You are going for look, not acting chops. And all the fans gotta stop drawing on TV talent. There’s a huge discrepancy between looking good on tv for 40 minutes while constantly being interrupted by commercials, and being believable and compelling for two hours when your face is 60 feet across.

Major: Holly Valance is only 25 y.o. – way too young. Major is battle hardened, experienced, and so much more than the sexpot that is Holly Valance. Need someone more like Sigourney Weaver circa 1986, with bigger boobs. I’m terrified to admit it, but I think this might actually be right for Angelina Jolie. No, I’m not kidding.

Batou: Maybe Mickey Rourke, if he can stop smirking and mumbling for 100 minutes (which we all know is possible)

Togusa: Adrian Brody

Ishikawa: Ron Perlman, though del Torro is intriguing choice

Chief Aramaki: Danny DeVito if he can lose the Brooklyn accent and 50 lbs.

One thing I’m not sure of, does a 2-hour movie have time for Paz, Saito and Borma? I’m not so sure…

By: EllORen

EllORen — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:25:58 +0000

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 ^_^

By: unimpressed

unimpressed — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:13:48 +0000

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

By: Tony Villarreal

Tony Villarreal — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:52:17 +0000

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.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:24:11 +0000

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!

By: stan lee

stan lee — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:06:20 +0000

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

By: Nooooo

Nooooo — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:14:00 +0000

NooooooOOoooOOOooOOOoo

3 of my favorite animations being made into an AMERICAN interpretation. NOOOooooOoooo. Why does hollywood have to leave their pen0r in everything!

By: AngryAnimeFan

AngryAnimeFan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:04:58 +0000

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.