I like that phrase.

Loved both movies, especially the first. Vic is right, NO WAY they’ll be just PG.

The first “Ghost in The Shell” movie was about the puppet master. The second one “Innocence” was about a corrupt organization stealing the innocence and lives of children which sets off a set of murders committed by the Sexoids they were dubbed into and to a lesser extent about section 9, post Kusanagi’s departure.

I personally would like to see the first season of the animated show redone because it is in my opinion the best version of ghost in the shell.
I think that the original movie GITS was so comvoluted and in to it’s own philosophy that it will lose alot of people.
The second movie innocense is great but again the story would be hard for American audiences to follow with the whole puppet master as the villain thing

I think the laughing man incident would be the best choice because the series laid the ideas out so clearly that most directors should be able to mess it up even if they put somewhat of their own spin on it.

Finally they say the watchmen was the graphic novel that could never be made into a movie but I thought the movie was amazing the thing is that they cut out characters and the pirate story.
I think if they can focus on the characters ishikawa, motoko kusanagi, chief aramaki, batou, and togusa they could make an amazing movie. But would need to understand that what males Gits so classic is that all of the characters have LAYERS AND SUBLAYERS of emotion. Ishikawa cannot just be the tech guy. Because is also the strong silent type but he also can crack jokes about the section 9 team when he’s not focused on a mission. They would have to be soo specific to include the hacking of peoples eyes, how the major fights, and the tachikomas and their representation of true reference of the actual term “ghost in the shell”
IF THIS IS IN 3D IT WILL MOST LIKELY SUCK because they will be focused on the wrong things
and finally I’m not sure if 2 and half hours is long enough time to tell the complex and delicate story

this show is a personal favorite of mine If you can’t tell and when my ex girlfriend reccomended it I couldn’t thank her enough.

I am fully aware that GITS is definetely for adults, but hollywood just has a knack for making adult based content PG-13.

Now my biggest worry is if the producers start to look to the matrix trilogy for inspiration, cause apart from part one, the others weren’t up to par.

I doubt there will be that much nudity seeing how as Oneechanbara the movie only had two breasts, mediocre ones at that. And seeing how as its in the hand’s of Hollywood it will probably turn out to be a Matrix clone.

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Good thing you cleared that up or the Otaku/Cosplay folks might have rioted on your site about the character being a female

I’m not a big anime fan, but based on what I know about this story I seriously doubt it would be rated PG.

Vic

@FRED

I don’t think that will be the case if they make a GITS movie. The most it will get is a PG-13 rating. I can see them mimicking GITS:SAC, pretty much an animated Law & Order/CSI show. Which was awesome IMO. But Hollywood does do that like you said. They sacrifice the content and quality of a film to attract the audience that is the most profitable which in turn makes them the most money. It’s a logical approach which they have done for years. Unfortunately, they don’t realize how times have changed and kids don’t watch things like power rangers anymore. It’s all about money to them. They could care less about making “movie magic”.

@piratedan

Dark knight,watchmen and sin city shouldn’t put your fears to ease. Those are from a totally different genre. You said it best yourself that Hollywood may still be looking at this like cartoons. Well, they seemingly are. If Dragonball isn’t a good example then look at Street Fighter. Sure it’s commonly known for the game but it’s still tied to the anime genre by the anime shows, manga and animated movies. And we all know how crappy that will turn out. Just like the horrific King of Fighters movie they are doing based on the game. It’s horrible.

GITS should be a medium budget film with morderate special effects , an unknown ,talented, enthusiastic acting cast, and just one big name star to draw in the crowds-like Brad Pitt did for Inglorious Basterds, have an mature minded economical director to save more money and use the clever music of Yoko Kanno to set the tones and mood of every scene.

Bottom line, GITS is for mature people only, hollywood takes that away completely, thus all the famous blockbusters are childish films or mindless action films like transformers-Dark Knight excluded, but BAtman has such a hugh following that they could afford to make it a mature film with too much of the graphic violence shown in Batman novels and in some comics.

Why? The Japanese artists always drew their characters to look American anyway…