i joined just to chime in on this topic.
i would have to say that the money required and the technology to produce the ghost in the shell film can be had by a person such as Spielberg, however its not the money we have to worry about here, its the quality of what hes going to make that we have to worry about. it seems to me that someone would be hard pressed to make a film as in depth and ground breaking as GITS when you were not the person who spawned the original idea. does Spielberg actually understand this show he insists hes a fan of or is he just attempting to cash in on someone elses ideas. i seriously pray that Spielberg does not botch this by attempting to make it into something else entirely. which is what i feel is going to happen, hes just going to take the characters and turn it into some kind of no holds barred 2 hour long gun battle. which is exactly what the movies and the shows have not been about, its been about politics, philosophy, its the story of the ghost in the majors shell, the entity that the major eventually becomes in the end.
and in regards to the 3D, im hoping to god that its nothing like the opening credits of the first season of the show, i hated how that looked. what would be pretty sweet though is if they just directly translated the original movie just about word for word scene for scene. then we don't have to worry about anything being lost in translation like how Wong Kar Wai's first movie made here in the US was, good but not the same. we dont have to worry about to much creative license being taken; and the only thing that would be hard to do would be to find someone to play the major, someone who could fill not only the mental boots of Motoko but her rather tight uniform.
in short
i believe that the only way they cant screw this up by making it in 3D would be if they turned it over to the Blizzard team.
and the only thing worse than this movie being a total bomb that ruins ghost in the shell, is it being a total success of a movie that ruins the face of ghost in the shell because of the band wagoners that are going to latch onto this all over the place. like the retarded frat boys that all loved 300.