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Sequel to Ghost In The Shell
News for nerds writes "Innocence: Ghost In The Shell as the sequel to Ghost In The Shell, anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, has been announced. Due out in spring of 2004 in Japan, with Mamoru Oshii as screenplay/director, produced by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa of Production I.G, and co-produced by(!) Studio GHIBLI."
A sequel! The last one had some naked robot action, but in the ssequel, I wan't some hot robot on robot action...like that Bjork video.
huh.. I just like saying Bjork...
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
He was born in the early 1950s and Oshii is considered one of the leading directors of the younger generation.
I personally feel that Oshii's movies are darker and more cynical than Miyazaki's, yet Oshii and Miyazaki are good friends. Oshii has been offered a director's job at Ghibli several times, but the projects were never realized.
For some time now! Behold and drool over another preview/interview.
"In the Japanese animation industry, there are three types of producers: (1) the executive producer, who collects funds for the production; (2) the line producer, who manages the production; and (3) the producer who plans the production. I do all three of those roles. I try to train the young people at I.G. who want to become producers in the same way: to manage all three categories. This production method is one strong point about Production I.G., and helps explain why we have been able to last this long while targeting solely the Japanese market."
Ishikawa's production company: [link]
"I definitely see the American market as part of my future. The Japanese animated films that are most commercially successful are the ones that are targeted toward the U.S. and other English-speaking territories. Seventy to eighty percent of non-Japanese profit comes from English language sales."
Ishikawa's "Blood: The Last Vampire", which would've won an award but wasn't longer than the required 70 minutes, so it was ineligible. [link]
From a question & answer session:
Q: Would it be a fair prediction that your next feature will be 70 minutes or longer?
A: (laughing) Yes. The Academy, you know...
in japan currently on PPV for 800 yen for 2 episodes monthly.
Not too many japs are paying for it, but at least good old koreans capture the stuff for free so fansub crowds can enjoy it...
I do hope they include or make references to the Fuchikoma's (robotic support vehicles similar in appearence to spiders with a semi-collective AI for those who havent read the manga) in this sequel, as for someone who has read the manga cover to cover, GITS was, although extremely impressive in a technical sence, a slight let down that certain key features of the original storyline had been cut / significantly altered for the anime. I have not read any of GITS 2 - Man Machine Interface, so this may be incorrect (ie. fuchikomas not featuring in it atall) but even if it is just a small reference, it would add a certain character that the first GITS anime significantly lacked.
/. reported quite a while back, GITS is being made into a series by the same production house as this release.
For me, the only characters with even the slightest hint of depth were kusanagi and Batou. The other characters just seemed fairly hollow, which was unfortunate. Personally i would have loved to have seen the original manga turned into a series (even if it had to be as short as Macross Plus 1-3) first as apposed to a fairly mixed up film. As
Heres hoping its worth it!
I'm sitting here initially thinking, "Ghost in Shell" -- hhmmm view a PDF in tcsh?
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When I read the headline, I thought it was yet another backdoor in login, like the one Ken Thompson put there in the early days of UNIX.
The previous has been a secret message to my comrades.
Well this made my day! Until I first saw GiTS in 1997, "Willow" was my favorite movie of all time. I saw that movie three, maybe four times over the years. When I saw GiTS I fell in love with it and have probably seen in close to thirty times in the last five years. It's only partially the story - more it's akin to Gibson's books - atmosphere baby! Slashdot readers are the dreamers of our culture, the ones who create the future. GiTS along with other classics like Star Trek, Virtual Light, Blade Runner, I Robot, et. al paint a world we want to live in and motivate this group to create. Ghost in the Shell was all about atmosphere and philosophy. Like it or not we'll be faced with the questions Motoko contemplated. Personally I think GiTS rivals any other classic out there and I can't wait for this sequal and for Stand Alone Complex to reach this side of the pond. Seth PS - FWIW, On my 25th birthday (this Dec. 28) I'm getting the pattern you see on Motoko's upper back in the opening sequence tattooed.