Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:14 pm
Video of a convention display of WETA's "cyborg" design work. But is it a cyborg? Looks like a gynoid to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYfpqWYKBIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYfpqWYKBIM
Discussions about the many incarnations of Ghost in the Shell, philosophy and more!
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The third image down reminds me of the cityscape in the Stallone Judge Dredd movie.GhostLine wrote:http://imgur.com/a/cBSGd
Several photos of shooting set. Appears to be heavily influenced by Oshii's first GitS film.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/marti ... 201902965/But the evening wasn’t just about Oscar bait. There was also a first-ever look at “The Ghost in the Shell,” an anime adaptation featuring Scarlett Johansson as a cyborg policewoman, who shoots up criminal gatherings while wearing a skintight jumpsuit. The footage featured kinetic action sequences with Johansson in full-“Lucy” mode, mowing down armies of bad guys.
According to the Executive Producer Michael Costigan in a recent interview with IGN, what we will see is less of a straight adaption of any single story and more of “a portal into this universe.”
http://www.cbr.com/ghost-in-the-shell-p ... spiration/Producer Avi Arad, who has some experience with translating complex universes of characters and stories to the big screen with Marvel, was even more explicit, saying “When we first started talking about getting rights for adapting [‘Ghost in the Shell], the creators went out of their way to suggest that we don’t try to adapt one thing. When they were adapting it into ‘Stand Alone Complex’ they chose and felt like they had to tell their own story with expectation that it felt like ‘Ghost in the Shell.’ Our hope is that our process will get us there.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_G ... x_episodesBatou and Togusa test eight potential new recruits for Section 9. Each man is paired off to create four different teams, and each team is tasked with tracking the Major. However, the Major proves to be a difficult target to track, and eventually she loses all four teams attempting to track her. Shortly after losing the last team, Kusanagi unexpectedly loses all communication and finds herself lost in a seemingly empty part of the city. While trying to locate her team, she happens across a shop that stores people's external memories, and learns of the story of two child cyberbodies carefully preserved in the shop. The bodies once belong to a boy and a girl who were involved in a terrible plane crash, and eventually the two children became the only survivors of the wreck. While the boy was in the hospital he learned that he was paralyzed, except for his left hand, which he used to make origami cranes non-stop for the girl. One day, the girl, who had been in a coma since arriving in the hospital, unexpectedly went downhill fast, and was moved to the OR. The boy believed that she had died, but two years later she was brought to the hospital alive and well in an effort to convince the boy to switch to a full cyborg body, after previous attempts by a relative and doctor had failed. The boy was reluctant to do so at first because the girl had difficulty with the fine movement skills of her new body, but he eventually relented and went full-cyborg. Years later the boy, who had been searching for the girl since he left the hospital, happened across her child issue cyborg body in a lab and took it upon himself to preserve it. When Kusanagi inquires as to the current whereabouts of the boy, she learns that he was shipped out in the last days of the war, and has not been heard from since. Before Kusanagi leaves, she carefully folds a sugar cube wrapper into an origami crane and places it in the car beside the boy, saying "I'll bet that even now...that girl is still searching for the first boy she ever loved."
I really like this approach to it. It reminds me of Peter Jacksons approach to the Lord of the Rings. There was just too much material in the books to put on screen so he cut everything that didn't have to do with the journey of the Ring. And giving Glofindles role to Arwen was not too bad, the book is more "realistic" because people do not come and go with convenient timing, but we expect movies to have a certain continuity to them.GhostLine wrote:Brief article on adapting GitS...According to the Executive Producer Michael Costigan in a recent interview with IGN, what we will see is less of a straight adaption of any single story and more of “a portal into this universe.”http://www.cbr.com/ghost-in-the-shell-p ... spiration/Producer Avi Arad, who has some experience with translating complex universes of characters and stories to the big screen with Marvel, was even more explicit, saying “When we first started talking about getting rights for adapting [‘Ghost in the Shell], the creators went out of their way to suggest that we don’t try to adapt one thing. When they were adapting it into ‘Stand Alone Complex’ they chose and felt like they had to tell their own story with expectation that it felt like ‘Ghost in the Shell.’ Our hope is that our process will get us there.”