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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.
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.
Great, now she's gonna be running around fighting baddies with... a RADIO. And they will be shooting back at her... with RADIOS.
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"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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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.
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> 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
A Dragon Ball movie is already on the works, set to be released in 2009.
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Leaked photos: http://themovingpicture.net/new-dragonball-set-photos 2009 backwards is 9002. Over 9000. Coincidence? I don't think so.
..how many ninja schoolgirls fighting alien invaders with gigantic robots while exposing their panties can we watch?
That's a rhetorical question, right?
It should actually be the same four or five movies, badly edited together, and then poorly redubbed to cover up the plot holes. Hey, it worked with Shogun Assassin...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
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.
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.
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!)
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Dragon Ball The Movie. Where they cram a 10 min ass whooping into 2 hours. Rather than the usual 2 months. Yeah, I think I can hang with that.
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