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holdenmcclure · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 54

While we're completely off topic:

simon's ghost · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

Yay for rick astley! Rolling Eyes

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holdenmcclure · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 54

Word around the street says he'll never give you up.

simon's ghost · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

and never let you down.
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holdenmcclure · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 54

He won't run around and hurt you either

marto_motoko · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 530 Location: Ni'ihama

I was actually thinking (yes, it hurts to do so), and I thought of a perfect mix.
Take the Matrix aspect of gothic city environment, (in other words what they ripped off from GitS to begin with), and apply it to graphics filtered in a way very similar to that in Avalon, with filters to give certain textures to people that makes them seem almost glowing.
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Individual Twelve · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

So long as they don't cast the actors incredibly badly (which, in all honesty, they're likely to, judging by modern film adaptation standards), and they stick to the style of the original movie (which they also probably won't). If they do those two, it's likely not to be a disaster at the least.

mirrormirror · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 16

Set your cyberbrains to stunned, people. Twisted Evil

Dreamworks has acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell. And they're planning a '3D live action' film. And it looks like Steven Spielberg will be tacked onto the project. No news on a production date though.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/entertainment/08/04/16/1254254.shtml
http://www.variety.com/VR1117984029.html

What do you think? Good news or bad news?
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Elmo_Redux · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 154 Location: CLASSIFIED

I may just gouge my eyes out with an ice cream scoop to spare them the risk of seeing this monstrosity, so I'm probably in the 'bad news' camp then.. Razz

Epiphany · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 260 Location: South Florida

simon's ghost · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject:

I would say this may eliminate poor casting calls if they go with the actual voice actors we are all used to, which I hope they do.
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GhostLine · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject:

3-D? Spielburg? Now, I like some of Spielburg's gritty sci-fi's...Minority Report and A.I.. I'm hoping he'll keep the intelligence of the franchise. But Transformers was also Spielburg affair...and we all know who he put up to direct.
I agree, that at least with Speilburg we'll have a willing pool of actors. And now I am going to assume the pool of actors will be American. So if Tome Cruise is still tight with Stevie, then we'll 'prolly see Katie Holmes as Motoko. You heard it here first!

Individual Twelve · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject:

Speilberg, eh? I reckon he could do a reasonable job. Minority Report was awesome. They could go with the standard VAs... but I do hope the merch doesn't happen. Hopefully Dreamworks will go for an adult approach. It just wouldn't work otherwise. Sounds like it may be a good result after all...
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THYREN · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

I posted this in another thread but ... don`t you think that if it is in 3D, it could actually be based on MMI? If it is the case, it could LOOK trully awesome. Cool

As for the scenario ... well... let`s keep our fingers crossed and hope that Shirow will be involded. Wink

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douyang · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 128

I can't honestly say I have high hopes that Shirow will be involved in this project, or that it will have anywhere as good a storyline or an exploration of intelligent subjects as the originals.

I keep thinking back to Silent Hill... not a movie I watched, but totally panned by general audiences for lack of any decent coherent storyline, even though they could have just stuck to the characters, plot, and themes of the original, which were some of the best I've seen anywhere. The one thing they got right were the visuals.

The visuals are the only thing I hold out hope for as far a Hollywood adaptation. And that they will pick less annoying voices for the Tachikomas.

Depending on how much they care about doing Gits justice and sticking to the source material, it may actually be a watchable piece that doesn't feel like someone pissing on us....