Ghost in the Shell 3-D Live Action Remake Gets a New Writer
A couple of years ago, we saw a flood of studios picking up the rights to live action remakes of popular anime films and series. Fast-forward to today, and most of these are still stuck in development hell, perhaps stalled by the massive failure that was Dragonball Evolution. While I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these projects never actually reach completion, at least a couple of them are still showing signs of life, with the Akira adaptation recently getting a new team of writers, and now Dreamworks setting a new scribe for their 3-D live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.
Back when the project was first announced, the writer who had been assigned to craft the script was Jamie Moss, whose only previous credit was the Keanu Reeves crime thriller Street Kings. Now Variety is reporting that the torch has been passed to Laeta Kalogridis, with no word on what came of Moss’s original attempt. Kalogridis has a slightly larger resume, with her most recently completed script being Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. However, she also co-wrote Pathfinder, Oliver Stone’s Alexander and Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch. I’m guessing the thing that most helped her land this gig, however, was the fact that she is also working on the screenplay for James Cameron’s adaptation of the anime Battle Angel Alita. Does this sound like the right person to adapt Ghost in the Shell? Can this popular manga and anime actually be adapted for American audiences, or is it simply a lost cause?
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I’m a big fan of Ghost in the Shell. I just hope they get someone really hot to play the Major (pictured above). I don’t know if they can make something that people will like in the mainstream, but I’m sure they can pull off fan service. Who knows, there’s a lot of action in GitS, but usually 75% of it is dense dialogue.
Posted by joe on October 26th, 2009These properties have some great storytelling in them and so if they are done correctly (taking more of a 1980’s approach to set design and lighting) then they might look cool and hopefully will be cool. If it’s all green screens then that might not work so well for most of this stuff though I did greatly enjoy Speedracer.
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Posted by jaime on October 27th, 2009Leave a Reply