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1 | Caitlin

April 15th, 2008 at 8:03 am

Ehh…I’m just not a fan of live-action adaptations overall. Maybe this one will be awesome but I’ll wait until it gets to DVD.

2 | jamison

April 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

umm, if this happens and someone serious directs. i think you’ll probably be catching in the theater. i know i will.

3 | David

April 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

4 | Cliff

April 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

I am excited for this live action adaption of the anime, hopefully someone good directs it and they have a good cast of actors suitable for the anime counterpart they intend to play

5 | Haesslich

April 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

If it turns into something like the Transformers Live Action movie, I’m not interested. Seriously, did they have to insert a ‘love story’ between a hacker and Witwicky, or redo the whole storyline to include more explosions because the Decepticons are blowing up Earth fighters and so forth?

If GITS gets that treatment, I’ll probably end up finding out that Motoko and Batou start making out halfway through the movie, while the Puppet Master starts doing song and dance routines…

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7 | ViciousWarGoose

April 15th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

This will be made or broken by the choice of actors, especially who will play Mikoto.

8 | David

April 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am

9 | Haesslich

April 16th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

David: This is Hollywood, land of cliches and bland acting. I’d be surprised if they DIDN’T try a Motoko x Batou sex scene to fill time.

10 | blauereiter

April 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Hmm…I guess James Cameron’s too busy with Avatar and Battle Angel to be involved…

11 | Sandalfon

April 17th, 2008 at 12:05 am

I died a bit inside when I heard of this.

12 | susieq

April 17th, 2008 at 10:53 am

Yeah but…Transformers was so cool! It was able to appeal to transformer fans (most of them), and “regular” people that normally wouldn’t watch things like that (i.e. it would be embarrassing if it wasn’t cool). I’m definitely not a mecha fan but I went to see the movie cause the cg transforming was so cool in the trailers.

Yes there’s a potential for a messed up adaptation, but what about the upside? If spielberg does a good job we’ll have a movie with fancy cg that would probably be mainstream (!) and people that wouldn’t have heard of gits otherwise will get exposed to something new.

13 | Haesslich

April 17th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

susieq: But Michael Bey isn’t involved with this adaptation, and I fear it’ll end up the way Ghost Rider did… rather than how Iron Man probably will. Basically, there’s two types of comic to movie transition types: the type that’s good… and then there’s everything else. Which is just about every comic adaptation out there.

I don’t have high hopes for this appealing to the masses, unless there’s a bunch of Motoko sex scenes, and that isn’t what the series was about even if Shirow enjoys drawing lesbian sex scenes (which would never fly in Hollywood).

14 | hector_ka

April 17th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

I truly believe that they are not up to the task to preserve GITS.
In order to do that you have to read, breath, and think Japanese.
I do not like GITS because is cute, but because of the deep philosophy
behind that surrounds the characters, and because of the truly insightful and honest way that Shirow tries to imagine the future.

15 | Alternator

April 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am

My gut tells me this movie will be passable, something to go and watch.

But I can’t believe it will be incredible unless they are willing to take a risky move and target it to a particular group (the group that likes GITS) rather than making it accessible to the masses.

16 | David

April 29th, 2008 at 7:22 am

17 | Lavvy

April 30th, 2008 at 6:07 am

Well, I can’t really see anything bad coming from this, providing they stick to the story line and don’t add in sex…also…tachikoma’s…gotaa have them!

If this does go down the toilet, I guess we can kiss ghost in the shell goodbye

18 | me

June 15th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

For those worried about a sex scene… when was the last time you actually saw a sex scene in a movie??? Hollywood has given up on sex in lieu of ultra-violence. Limbs exploding graphically is OK now, but people faux-humping are not.

19 | Project_397

July 10th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

Steven Spielberg may have done a good job with “Transformers” but to make a live-action adaption of the groundbreaking anime “Ghost in the shell”?!

As others have said in the past: This adaption will either fly to high heavens, or butcher the positive views of Ghost in the shell and anime fans all over the world.

I agree completely with Cliff in saying that the majority of the adaption’s success will be greatly dependent on the actors they choose and the roles they take, but I also agree with David and hope that they don’t westernize it to much. They will be able to keep most of the fans happy if it is still based in Japan.

Overall: If the adaption turns out to be another one of Spielberg’s floating turds in his solid gold toilet, I suppose I could still watch it………….for shits and giggles!

20 | Preke

November 27th, 2008 at 7:01 am

Gits has three major problems:
- deep characters and storyline
- high expectations (adapted for massive audiences)
- location

I have seen the SAC series and thought that damn, I.G. really knows how to intrigue its fans with good plot twists and deep philosophical issues. Then I thought about how that made me feel, like when I felt good when Section 9 made some progress in the case, and outwitted the bad guys. Then I thought how other similar movies gave me those same feelings. And then, it hit me, Ocean’s 11. E.g. Pitt / Damon / Clooney could fit well for the role of Batou. Hell, even Roberts could play Motoko. Kusanagi is a very deep character, and If Spielberg wants to make it good, they need to have some academy-level cast in there. So combine the smoothness of Oceans 11, with the action / suspense of Bladerunner and the drama of Street Kings, and you might have a blockbuster. The location (set in futuristic Japan) might even not be that big an issue, because the story is actually set in a city that is called: New Port City. This could be like the next Hong Kong, so English speaking citizens would be very common.