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Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell
Anonymous GiTS fan noted a Variety story informing us that DreamWorks has acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell and has plans to produce a "3D Live Action" version of the popular anime. This happened apparently because Spielberg is a fan. He says "'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories ... It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks." I hope they add a talking donkey.
it is way more popular and has a large fan-base in america
If people can get past, can they get future? Best way to confuse a stoner
3d bewbs -n- bullets ftw.
You'd think so, but actually Stephen Spielburg is Steven Spielberg's non-union equivalent. Sort of like Senor Spielbergo is his Mexican non-union equivalent.
You might think it odd that he would have his own non-union counterpart working at his company Dreamworks, but actually that's a typo in the summary. The actual company that bought the rights is Dreamworks' non-union equivalent, Dreemwerx.
Why do I get the feeling that Tom Cruise is somehow gonna get cast in the movie?
Great, now she's gonna be running around fighting baddies with... a RADIO. And they will be shooting back at her... with RADIOS.
In Soviet Russia jokes are formulaic and decidedly non-humorous.
Here's hoping they get Jessica Alba to play the part of the Major. I can't wait to see a full body shot of her in her stealth suit...
"I hope they add a talking donkey."
/me ducks
Sorry, but I believe Hillary will be on the campaign trail for at least a little while longer.
A 3D vision movie you watch through red-green glasses?
A 3D first person shooter?
All of the that? None of that?
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"Is there anything Hollywood won't shit on?"
So, let's see: Tom Cruise can play Batou. I know Batou is suppoed to be a big dude, and Tom Cruise is 4' 10", but I'm sure Cruise's face can easily be CGI'd onto a big, special effects body. Maybe they can also CGI in some acting ability. Jessica Simpson can play the Major. I know she's not Japanese--hell, she's a blonde--but what does that matter? We can wrap her in some tight, revealing costumes and no one will notice her from the neck up! She's made for the part! And instead of Japan, it can take place in L.A. And instead of hunting criminal, they'll hunt terrorists. Or maybe people who are mean to puppies. Or they guy who yesterday put whole milk instead of skim into Spielberg's latte.
Now, please excuse me while I got stick forks in my eyes.
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
> I hope they add a talking donkey.
Slightly O/T, but this brings up an interesting question: can't anybody in the world use Jar-Jar Binks without legally infringing on Lucas' copyright, since Binks is a pre-packaged parody of himself? (The same would apply to the donkey in Shrek, though perhaps more so since he's just Eddie Murphy and is the same character in so many things it would be hard to argue a new copyright existed just because he was a talking ass.)
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2D Live Action ...the possible permutations are endless. Use your imagination.
3D Dead Action
3D Live Comedy
1D Live Drama
4D Dead Romance
..how many ninja schoolgirls fighting alien invaders with gigantic robots while exposing their panties can we watch?
That's a rhetorical question, right?
And see, I thought that Spielburg was the town that Steven Spielberg founded to erect his vast estate.
I don't know if I would have called AI a sugar-fest. The best description I've heard of it was that it had all the warm characterization of a Stanley Kubrick film, coupled with the hard-nosed realism of a Spielberg flick.
I can't say that I'm entirely sad that Michael Bay isn't creating an Alita movie. Sure he may be preventing other people from working on it, but at least we won't have to sit through a summer blockbuster where she hacks Tiphares with a mac and everything explodes constantly.
I read the internet for the articles.
Why can i only think of the phrase stupid gits whenever i see people make an acronym out of anything for no apparent reason? This is especially relavent to this topic.
Mod parent troll, please. Battle Angel is a Cameron project, not a Bay project.
Which is good. With Bay we would have gotten decent pacing, top-knotch effects, good cinematography, massive continuity errors and zero rewatchability.
With Cameron, we'll get great pacing, excellent visual effects, killer cinematography.... and Celine Dion.
A remake seems unnecessary, as any improvements will be marginal. It's like trying to remake Dune (which I understand someone is also doing). Much as I love GITS, I think the resources could be spent better elsewhere. Where is the Ender's Game movie? Neuromancer? Snow Crash? Even another GITS sequel would be more worthwhile than remaking the original.
But of course this is Spielberg, who hails from the Lucasian school of Redoing Movies Until They Are Perfect.
We've talked with the people at Dreamworks, and here's a quick list of the improvements that they hope to bring to the latest installation in the Ghost in the Shell franchise:
10. Cute kid to follow everyone around and ask a lot of questions
9. Helpless female with nasal voice that screams a lot and has to be rescued over and over
8. Less edgy animation so that American audience doesn't find it quite so jarring
7. Speaking of jarring, do you think we could borrow Jar-jar from Lucas?
6. Deep philosophical conundrums replaced with pop psychology and Jedi aphorisms.
5. More clothing to avoid the R rating
4. More senseless violence to fill in the parts we had to take out.
3. A properly evil villain so people know who to hate.
2. Good old-fashioned technobabble.
1. A talking Donkey (Nice call, Rob!)
Wake up - the future is arriving faster than you think.
How about we just say that it sucked and leave it at that?
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I've never heard of a 3D Live Comedy, but I've seen a 2D Dead Comedy.
It was called Sideways.
If you missed the ending you might have the misconception that it was a good film.