Ghost in the Shell 2.0 to Debut Next Month
Ghost in the Shell 2.0, a re-release of the ground breaking 1995 feature film featuring a new 6.1 audio mix produced by Academy-Award-winning sound mixer/editor Randy Thom (The Incredibles), and new visual enhancements and CG effects. The majority of the original voice cast will re-record their dialogue. The Puppetmaster, originally portrayed by Iemasa Kayumi, will be played by Yoshiko Sakakibara in the update. The new film is scheduled to screen in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sapporo beginning July 12th.
Japanese entertainment news website Ticket Pia hosts four pages of before and after shot comparisons (2008 version top, 1995 version bottom) and the new film’s theatrical poster. The official website for Ghost in the Shell director’s upcoming film The Sky Crawlers now hosts a streaming Flash trailer for the Ghost in the Shell 2.0 movie.
Perhaps Japanese audiences are now finally ready to embrace the film that wasn’t especially successful in Japan during its original release 13 years ago.
Source: Anime News Network
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Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite movies in the world, but I’m very iffy about this version. Aside from the saturated Innocence-esque colors and modern digital compositing, I have to question whether GitS needs to be “updated” with videogamey 3D effects in the first place. There’s a lot of elegance and beauty in the way the original used its 2D animation and (now primitive) 3D effects/compositing. In the new trailer, I’m not seeing how the excessive digital re-compositing, 3D characters and flying cameras angles are supposed to enhance the meditative, ‘yuugen’-heavy feel of the film.