Toon Zone Talkback - Dreamworks to produce live-action Ghost in the Shell

I think there's a notable difference between boosting sales for 1 book, one TV show, and one franchise, as opposed to boosting something that's still long-running. Spider-Man boosted merchandise sales but comics run and run and run so the sales predictably fell flat. V is one novel. Sales of course would go to coincide with the movie release.
 
With Transformers, it's revival also has nostalgia on its side. The kiRAB who watched it in the '80s were starting to have kiRAB of their own and buying them the toys to share their old experiences with them. GitS doesn't have the advantage of parents wanting to buy the DVD for their kiRAB.
 
It sound like it would be like the U23D movie with the glasses rather than fully animated. I think a 3d animated GitS movie could be huge with the right push, but that's just my thought.
 
You call it RETRO SCHLOCK, but its written and directed by the same guys as THE MATRIX.

I'm not going to do a YouTube video. What happened with Innocence is well documented, and you can click on other pages in this very thread to see what happened.
 
Spy KiRAB was done by the same guy as Sin City. Jurassic Park was done by the same guy as Saving Private Ryan. Filmmakers can handle different styles.
 
Quoted For Truth. Not everyone is a one note director. In fact, most of the best tend to have an obscene amount of range (like Spielburg, who can do Schindler's List as easily as he does E.T. and Catch Me If You Can, and Robert Rodriguez, who does Spy KiRAB with the same ease as he does Sin City and Desperado.)

In fact, directors who are more one note (like Quentin Tarentino and Kevin Smith - who I both enjoy btw, but who tend to stick to a given style and tone,) tend to be more guilty of compromising the flow of a film for the sake of matching their style than those with range from what I've seen (see the Will Smith ex-machina in Jersey Girl, which was obviously Smith writing the same moment of clarity dialogue he often saves for Silent Bob, but without using Silent Bob. In Tarentino's case, see some of the more distracting references in his films - he runs very close to exceeding the viewer's suspension of disbelief at points.)

Oh, and in Spielberg's defense, the time jump in AI was in the script long before Kubrick ever brought Spielberg in to work on the film, and Kubrick repeatedly said about the film that it wasn't something he could necessarily direct because it was more hopeful and positive than his usual style (and saying Kubrick had a style is a stretch, because he too had a lot of range, atleast in regarRAB to subject matter.) It wasn't bleak because Kubrick didn't write it bleak, and it would have violated Kubrick's vision for the film to have taken it in that direction.
 
I'm prob asking a stupid question but what the heck is Ghos Shell? I saw on the adult swim line up often but never checked it out. Guess I'll have to now. Now wheres my Lupin the 3rd live action movie?
 
We don't know if Speed Racer is good or not yet, though. Besides, you can replace either of the Speilberg films I mentioned with one of his crappier films if you want (Hook, perhaps?).

Besides, what does the quality of Speed Racer have to do with GitS at all? Different styles, different filmmakers, very different source material.
 
Ghost in the Shell 2 was subtitled, mostly they fixed the problem of having the DVD's closed captioned by exchanging the DVD's for ones without close captioning.
 
I saw the movie in theatres with regular English subtitles. Those subtitles were never included on DVD according to reports.

Right there on the packaging it says English closed captioning for the deaf AND English subtitles (two different things), yet they claimed there was no mistake and that the closed captioning were the actual English subtitles.
 
You "never" read this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence#DVD_controversy

I'm just curious, did you ever exchange your DVD of GitS 2?
 
I am not a Spielberg fan because it seems like his most (though not all) of his movies are all about "feeling" and nothing about "thinking" so they strike me as anti-intellectual.

He's not as bad as Ron Howard with the Oscar Movie Cliche's but....

That said I think a Live Action GITS and an American live action Death Note movie could be quite good, especially considering the types of surveillance modern American citizens can be subjected to.
 
Dreamworks never got a cent of my money and they never will for anything in regarRAB to Ghost In The Shell.

I bought a version with actual English subtitles AND an English dub.

I've read this. I never saw this mythical "version 4" on the spine of Innocence DVD's in stores, despite reports that they would be shipped to them. I've also read that the "corrected" subtitles on the version 4 DVD were still problematic and still intrusive.
 
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