Thema: Ghost in the Shell - Live Action Adaption von Dreamworks mit ScarJo

[der Dude]

Mir war als hätten wir schon nen Thread zu

Steven Spielberg, filmmaker and part-time game designer, plans to make a live action version of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell futuristic cop manga. Scribe Laeta Kalogridis is hard at work on the screenplay.

At a recent Q&A for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (she wrote the script), Kalogridis revealed that she'll "turn in a draft in a few weeks". According to website ANN, the screenwriter was cautiously optimistic about the Hollywood adaptation, adding, "Cross your fingers, guys — [it has a] female lead."

"I can say that Ghost in the Shell was a seminal visual experience," she told UGO.com last month. "It has spawned so much amazing — not just direct stuff, like the television series — but The Matrix and the evolution of cyberpunk. For me, it is an meaningful as [William Gibson's] Neuromancer."

DreamWorks has the film rights to Ghost in the Shell and plans on making the film in 3D. Kalogridis, who executive produced Avatar, replaced writer Jamie Moss, who had joined the project in 2008.

Ghost in the Shell was first published in 1989 and then turned into an anime in 1995, a animated feature sequel and two television anime. Since then it has also been made into games for the PlayStation, PS2 and PSP.

Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Script Draft in Few Weeks

Shutter Island's Laeta Kalogridis updates status on remake of Masamune Shirow's manga

Laeta Kalogridis, the current screenwriter for Dreamworks and Steven Spielberg's planned live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga, revealed on Tuesday evening that she will "turn in a draft in a few weeks." She expressed cautious optimism about the project, and indirectly noted an obstacle such a project faces in Hollywood: "Cross your fingers, guys — [it has a] female lead."

Kalogridis spoke at a post-screening Q&A session for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island film in Los Angeles. At this event sponsored by Creative Screenwriting Magazine, Kalogridis was more tight-lipped about another manga-based project with a female lead character. Kalogridis was once hired by Avatar director James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga. When asked about the possibilities of the Battle Angel film or an Avatar sequel, she responded, "You have to ask Jim — anything to do with [those projects]."

Kalogridis served as the screenwriter and an executive producer for Shutter Island and as an executive producer on Avatar.

The American arm of the manga's original Japanese publisher Kodansha is reprinting the manga after Dark Horse Comics had the license. Kodansha also launched two new manga series based on the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex television anime series in December.

[der Dude]

Dass es in Japan spielt, ist ja noch nicht ausgeschlossen. Spielberg hat schon das nötige Feingefühl, das Talent und die Erfahrung um das zu richten.

[der Dude]

Naaa, ich kann ja net viel, aber mit Animes kenn ich mich aus Dass GITS verfilmt werden soll, die News kenne ich ja schon ne gute Weile, hab sie dann aber immer wieder nicht gepostet, weil ich war mir sicher, hier steht schon was zu

[der Dude]

Shelling Sequenz auf einer Pressekonferenz in Japan. Kenji Kawai, der Komponist des Original-OST, hat die Vorführung life untermahlt.

[der Dude]

Die Musik (dieses Cover) hat mir nicht wirklich gefallen, das muss aber noch nichts über den fertigen Film aussagen.

Ist vermutlich nur für den Trailer. Kenji Kawai sorgt wie im Anime auch schon für die Untermalung. Die legendäre Eröffnungsmusik ist sogar fast identisch so auch im Film drin.