DreamWorks to Make 3D Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Movie
Variety Magazine reports that DreamWorks, with the eager urging of studio co-founder Steven Spielberg, has acquired the rights to produce an American 3-D live action film based on Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell manga series. “Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite stories,” Spielberg said. “It’s a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks.”
Screenwriter Jamie Moss (Street Kings) will create a story and script. Avi Arad, producer on the Spider-Man, X-Men, and Fantastic Four film franchises; his son Ari Arad; and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment will produce.
DreamWorks distributes the second Ghost in the Shell anime feature film, Innocence, in America. Spielberg has been an acknowledged fan of anime since, at least, the mid 1980s.
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Considering the amount of anime rights that have been licensed by hollywood in the last few years only to be cancelled or delayed indefinitely, i’m a little sceptical that anything will come of this. I’ll go and see it if it actually gets released, but I refuse to get too excited beforehand.
3D’s live-action?
I’m thinking in smothing pretty near to Beowulf.
I really love the ghost in the shell series all 3 movies and two tv seasons are very well put together and as much as I would love a new GitS movie or season of tv, that would only be true if Masamune Shirow was doing it. Being from the US I know all to well how our entertainment industry loves to take something good and make it worse, -or remake classics. I really do hope that dream works decides not to do this.
Oh and props to dream works for distributing GitS: Innocence in the US, so that we as English speakers can order the film (with English spoken and not subtitles) from a company in the UK.