Dreamworks aquires rights Ghost in the Shell Live Action, 3D

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2008-05-23 01:15am

The original GiTS manga and anime were set in Japan, so it made sense for the main characters to be Japanese. If the live action version is going to take place in the US (which is very likely) I don't see why the Major wouldn't also have her nationality changed.

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2008-05-23 01:58am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:You should take into consideration not only how film adaptation usually works--specifically that complicated subject matters are often simplified or discarded--but also that they'd obviously start at the beginning of the story, long before Kusanagi could do all that cyberspace entity remote body upload/download stuff.

Tim Burton's 'Batman' starts when Batman has already been active for some time. The first 'Ghost in the Shell' movie starts when Kusanagi has already been a Section 9 member for some time (she likely is already skilled at ghost-hacking, if 'Stand Alone Complex' is anything to go by). The 007 films (with the obvious exception of 'Casino Royale') start when James Bond already has several years experience as a double-O.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2008-05-23 04:27am

The Major has been in prosthetic bodies since she was a little girl - who knows when she was recruited into Section 9, but I wouldn't be surprised if she had been doing some sort of work along the same lines even before that.

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2008-05-23 11:39pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:The Major has been in prosthetic bodies since she was a little girl - who knows when she was recruited into Section 9, but I wouldn't be surprised if she had been doing some sort of work along the same lines even before that.

In the original manga, Aramaki recruited Kusanagi after she assassinated someone Section 9 was about to arrest RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM; it's likely she already had several years' experience with wetwork (assassinations, kidnappings, etc.) by the time she joined Section 9.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-05-24 03:44am

I wonder if this will actually turn out any product, or if it will be vaporware like the rumored Neon Genesis Evangelion movie.

Personally, though, I wish there were anime adaptations of some Western stuff. I'd be interested in Seaquest DSV in anime form. (No, Blue Sub 6 does not count.)

Oh also put me down in the list of dumb people, I couldn't get into FLCL at all. I didn't get the humor at all, it just grated on me.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2008-05-24 03:28pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Personally, though, I wish there were anime adaptations of some Western stuff. I'd be interested in Seaquest DSV in anime form. (No, Blue Sub 6 does not count.)

Well, there was the Witchblade anime.

That was pretty awful, though.