Variety has confirmed what most fans of the asskickingeous manga franchise, Ghost In The Shell, had feared: Dreamworks bought rights with plans to adapt the futuristic police thriller as a 3-D live-action feature.
GHA!
I’m in no way a fan of manga, anime or whatever the hell it’s called now, but a good movie is a good movie, and the Ghost In The Shell films and series were amazing. And now the taint of Spielberg shall be laid upon it. Dear lord, can’t he just stop ruining wonderful SciFi?
Many had heard the rumor that there was to be a live-action film made, but fans had followed their glee of this possibility with whispered dread. And that dread’s name was Spielberg. This mostly due to the fact that the second anime film, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, was released in the U.S. by DreamWorks in 2004. So the fears of the fanboys have become a self fulfilling prophesy. Gee, thanks.
Avi Arad (produced the three Spider-Man films), Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and brought the project to the studio. Jamie Moss (Street Kings script) has been tapped to pen the adaptation.
Somehow I can’t see any of that helping. I’m going over to the corner to punch a basket full of adorable kittens.
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