crazygameguy4ever said:
no.. just no.. get an Japanese actress to play the Japanese character.. better yet, let Japan make a live action Ghost in The Shell.. we all know the track record of US companies making films based on Japanese properties..shutter in remembering such disasters as Dragon Ball Evolution, Kite, Mortal Kombat Annihilation and Street fighter... got a cold chill on that last one..
Why, it's not as if they tend to go out of their way to make live-action movies of their own material (and outside of dramas and romantic comedies, what little they tend to make live action tends to look like a cheap episode of Babylon 5 when it comes to sci if).
It's also fitting that the materiel would be adapted here for live action instead of in Japan, and not only because of the fact that here it can actually be afforded. Ghost in the Shell is proportionality popular here compared to how big it is in Japan. It's not Cowboy Bebop, Big O or Akira level of being a classic here that's been completly forgotten in Japan, but it's still much more likely to be a success in Western theatres then in Japan's ones.
I for one welcome the move, over the past 5 years Hollywood has become dramatically better at adapting Japanese source material to the big screen. Taking that time frame into consideration, it's more likely to be a hit then a miss.
