I agree, shiny people look plastic.
But it would look a lot like the MMI (Man-Machine Interface) manga if they went in for the shiny plastic people look. Could create a surrealist 'artificial people' atmosphere, capitalising on the alreasy surreal artificial nature of CGI?
GitS needs to stay Anime or CG. Anything else will be a joke and insult to the spirit of the originals
Although the original
was a manga...
Seriously though, GitS in a media-spanning franchise at this point. It's like Street Fighter- different people have used the initial general concept to tell a variety of versions of story, some far more successful and good and innovative than others. Your biggest fears (everyone, from what I've seen) really seems to be what having an extremely popular Hollywood version of Ghost in the Shell will brand the franchise and the characters as in the popular imagination. I understand that totally- that was my biggest fear whenever I hear about a new Street Fighter thing, worrying that they'll misrepresent my own favourite heroine Chun-Li some way (because.. gee... so many people don't seem to 'get' her to me
). And to a small extent I'm still a little sore about the Americanisation of Lara Croft (READ: making her more of a sympathetic, acceptible hero despite the fact that that was *not* the original game character's story before the new generation of Tomb Raider games).
BUT... at some point you just need to let it go and accept that they're making a new thing and it may not be for you. I don't particularly get into SAC or manga Motoko like I do movie Motoko, and while I think SAC is okay I don't particularly like the fact that it's become the really big thing now instead of the movies for most new fans... pretty much like some hardcore manga fans don't like that the Oshii movies replaced the manga a bit as the big thing in GitS before... To me, SAC just doesn't represent as well what made GitS great to me in the movies, and the movies don't represent what made GitS for some other people in the mangas. It's okay... you'll just complain for a while hear when it happens like I did/have been doing about SAC, but it will never take away from the fact that the version or versions you liked are great for you. Besides which, I've learnt (bitterly, lol) that other people will defile what you love about a character no matter how important that character is to you. No character is apparently special enough for any of us to be allowed to keep the way we want them.
Perhaps that is where being a fan of fictional things is just a trivial pursuit at the end of the day. (certainly it doesn't make any of us look good to get
too 'angry fanboy' over these things for life... though you're entitled to be a little bit sore over it for a while, lol)