Bionic Woman Writer to Adapt Ghost in the Shell For Big Screen
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I don't get the fascination of bringing already seminal animation hits into live action films. Especially anime. It is it's own art-form. Why would anyone re-make Akira or make Bambi live action?murphy7801 said:
Making Death Note live action did absolutley nothing to add to it's franchise.
The up-coming Cowboy Bebop live action film is just not going to work either I promise you.
I'm a bit of a fan of GitS, both the comic, the animated movie, and the animated series, but I'm pretty pessimistic about a live-action version. I guess it's a "hope for the best, expect the worst" situation for me.
Live action might not add anything good to the franchise, but live action movies appeal to a far broader audience than animated movies. If they were to make a new GitS animated movie, it would mostly be the fans that would watch it, and not many others. A live action movie, if done right, has the potential of drawing in the regular movie crowd as well as the long-time fans.ravens_nest said:
The negativity here exists because live action adaptation of anime doesn't work, period, you end up making a steaming pile. Even the Japanese can't make it work, and we Americans somehow do it worse.Uncompetative said:
It might have something to do with how a studio exec will take one look at the source material, decide it's too complex for American audiences and demand it be a brain dead action movie where everyone is a super cyborg.
I sometimes suspect this is only done for the financial gain. Something like Lord of the Rings being made live action after the animated series makes sense because it is not based off that version. It comes from a book.hURR dURR dERP said:
a live action Ghost in the Shell would be better than most I agree. Because of the nature of the subject. But history has shown most conversions end in failure, Game to movie conversions for example.
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"I've been thinking... about the state of affairs recently. How far can a human become a mchine and yet still retain hus humanity? And should we treat artifical lifeforms with human qualities as true humans, major?"
[EgoRaptor's voice]"Who cares, there BADGUYZ OVER THERE!!1 Quick youse your SUPUR-MASHEEN-GUNZ!!
*PEW PEW PEW KAPPLOW!!! PSSSH NBOOOM!!! _grenaded'_ *Slow-mo reload sequence*
PEWPEWPEW BRATATATATATATA *JUMPS THRU WINDOW* _BUILDING_EXPLOSION_
"snappy one liner by Kusanagi" (with obligatory cleavage shown of course)
Yes this movie will blow.
Er, well if I understand what you're saying correctly you don't really disagree with what I meant (or was trying to mean at least). The jist of what I was trying to say is that they will change it in some way to try and attract more people, but it will backfire and end up attracting less people.scarab7 said:
I can't even joke about this. I love the franchise too much.
Granted if given a big enough budget, the right backing and the right cast, GitS could make a brilliant movie adaptation from any of the films or the series, but I think we all know it's not going to get any of those things and will be awful.
I'm going to pretend I never read this and go on with what was a good day.
Granted if given a big enough budget, the right backing and the right cast, GitS could make a brilliant movie adaptation from any of the films or the series, but I think we all know it's not going to get any of those things and will be awful.
I'm going to pretend I never read this and go on with what was a good day.
I'm a huge fan of Ghost in the Shell, and I really hope that this movie turns out alright. Of course past experiences have shown that anime/magna movies that get adapted for Hollywood movies, usually sucks beyond suck. So my expectations are not that high. I mean they can't do worse than that abortions Dragon Ball Evolution. And if they do, do worse than Dragon Ball Evolution, you might wanna build a bomb shelter because its a sign of the apocalypse.
I never saw Ghost in the Shell, but I'm going to because everyone says its really good. I don't think its a good version to make a live action movie out of it for several reasons though.
First of all, both live-action film and anime (or animation in general) are both visual mediums. Unlike say, book to movie adaptions, there is not much leeway in creative innovation, nor can the people adapting the story keep true to ts source material while making it something unique as well. These kind of adaptions don't work also because many things that anime can get away with won't cut it in live-action because it will look ridiculous without milllions of dollars for development and a crack team of special effects wizards to integrate these outlandish concepts (like magic) so it looks organic and natural in the fabric of reality we see everyday. That's why video game and comics almost never produce good movie adaptions.
Then there are the fans, who will screw the whole thing up (see Spiderman 3, that is, unless a fan directs the movie (see Zack Snyder directing that trainwreck Watchmen). No matter, what the movie is, the fans will almost certainly find something to complain about, like Christian Bale's raspy voice in Batman ( which was necessary so people wouldn't recognize his voice).
Third of all, its unnecessary. Why produce a movie out of something when there's already an animated movie. It stinks of blatant commercialism, and poisons the the things we love. And God forbid if something like this gets pushed into production because a famous actor holds affection for it. Which is why Cowboy Bebop will Keanu Reeves as Spike, and why all fond memories of that anime will be ruined.
First of all, both live-action film and anime (or animation in general) are both visual mediums. Unlike say, book to movie adaptions, there is not much leeway in creative innovation, nor can the people adapting the story keep true to ts source material while making it something unique as well. These kind of adaptions don't work also because many things that anime can get away with won't cut it in live-action because it will look ridiculous without milllions of dollars for development and a crack team of special effects wizards to integrate these outlandish concepts (like magic) so it looks organic and natural in the fabric of reality we see everyday. That's why video game and comics almost never produce good movie adaptions.
Then there are the fans, who will screw the whole thing up (see Spiderman 3, that is, unless a fan directs the movie (see Zack Snyder directing that trainwreck Watchmen). No matter, what the movie is, the fans will almost certainly find something to complain about, like Christian Bale's raspy voice in Batman ( which was necessary so people wouldn't recognize his voice).
Third of all, its unnecessary. Why produce a movie out of something when there's already an animated movie. It stinks of blatant commercialism, and poisons the the things we love. And God forbid if something like this gets pushed into production because a famous actor holds affection for it. Which is why Cowboy Bebop will Keanu Reeves as Spike, and why all fond memories of that anime will be ruined.
