GHOST IN THE SHELL Returning To The Big Screen!

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1. Ard Vijn 06/08/2008 @ 10:29am

   Oh, man.

   This will be in my collection soon after it is out…
   And I own 5 versions already!

2. Ichi-The-Killer 06/08/2008 @ 11:03am

   I’m excited, but when I read the title “GHOST IN THE SHELL Returning To The Big Screen!” I thought Oshii was going to be doing a brand new sequel.

3. Rhythm-X 06/08/2008 @ 11:22am

   So it’s GHOST IN THE SHELL: REDUX, then? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. GHOST IN THE SHELL ain’t broke.  Screw this - this film’s original look pioneered the feel of SF in the modern era. The remake produced by the director of INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL and WAR OF THE WORLDS (I forget his name) suddenly seems comparatively harmless compared with more of this revisionist tampering.

4. Airchinapilot 06/08/2008 @ 11:31am

   WTF .. make a NEW film please!

   Oh well, I hope they keep making Stand Alone Complex…

5. Kurt Halfyard 06/08/2008 @ 1:10pm

   An interesting idea.  I’m game for the experiment.  But the original opened my eyes to anime being more than previous misconceptions…

6. brbro4 06/08/2008 @ 1:12pm

   i can’t wait to see what they do with this. it may not be all new but i’ll take all the GitS i can get!

7. Mike 06/08/2008 @ 1:24pm

   ...and all the guns are replaced with walkie talkies!

8. fabool 06/08/2008 @ 1:58pm

   Pointless, utterly pointless.

   I see no point in modernizing older anime productions (it’s not even that old!).I find it a big FU towards the original animators of that time. Especially since the bastard child of visual effects known as 3DCG is corrupting pretty much everything made these days - why start ruining the older stuff as well?
   I thought the recent NGE remake proved that these are just a huge way to make money out of the otaku crowd.
   It’d be a riot to see Ghibli do this crap in the near future as well… “Hey, Totoro is looking a bit flat, let’s 3DCG his ass!”

9. ASIAN FLIX 06/08/2008 @ 2:18pm

   I agree with all of you who said or thought “If its not broken, then don’t fix it"…

   The ones who come up with these stupid ass ideas “lets take the original and add to and/or redo it” should be just making a follow up, not a REDUX.

10. CheechWizz 06/08/2008 @ 4:04pm

    I’m also with the ‘if it ain’t broken..’ crowd. Just saw Sword of the stranger which again proved to me that while appleseed 2 looked pretty it just lacks the sense of life that hand drawn animation has (yes I do realise there’s a lot of 3d in sword of the stranger but still..). Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against CG and if it adds to a scene by all means go ahead but I can’t for the life of me figure out where the first ghost in the shell needs more CG or anything else for that matter. The movie is a classic as is and I doubt this remake will add anything to that.

    Here’s a better idea, how about remaking Ghost in the shell 2 into a film that’s actually, you know, fun to watch instead of the tediously boring philosophical mess it is.

11. MikeOutWest 06/08/2008 @ 11:11pm

    Tinkering with a classic? Hmm...sounds like he’s been talking to Lucas and Spielberg (remember the classic Southpark episode where they’re planning to re-issue Raiders, but with all the badguys having walkie-talkies instead of guns? sheer genius).

    Perhaps this time they can trim back the many travelogue scenes which padded out the movie ("and now, an intermission while we take a trip around the bustling streets of neo-tokyo...").

12. Quintum 06/08/2008 @ 11:45pm

    I really don’t think that the original Ghost in the Shell movie needs a design overhaul in the way Star Wars did. With Ghost in the Shell, the way it was drawn is an important part of the movie and I would hate too see a part of animation history disappear. Especially if they’re thinking of applying some of the overly visible CG use, like they did in the second movie. The part where Batou was attacked by the guy with the mechanized arms was just horrible.

    What I would much rather see is more story development, by making a new TV series!

13. steiner from mars 06/09/2008 @ 1:44am

    I can´t understand this, that movie doesn`t need anything, it´s perfect just as it is.
    Sigh...anyway I´m starting to hate 3d stuff. Okok I totally agree that productions such as Sword of stranger (best combat sequences ever) or SAC with blur in the border line of the figures to make everything fit together are wonderful but things like Cell shade and all that stuff..oh man it´s so disgusting…

14. steiner from mars 06/09/2008 @ 1:57am

    anyway Kamiyama is my hope now, I think that all the stuff he did in the SAc series is really fantastic.

15. AHTB 06/09/2008 @ 8:03am

    Here’s a promo clip for the 2.0 version:
    http://blog.affenheimtheater.de/2008/06/09/ghost-in-the-shell-20-trailer-poster-und-vergleichsbilder/

16. Geert Jan 06/09/2008 @ 8:15am

    Thanks for the link AHTB. I didn’t want to judge too soon, but looking at this comparison image makes me a bit worried:

    http://img.affenheimtheater.de/gits_2-0_comp_new.jpg

    The new CGI version just looks more generic. I really hope this new version doesn’t stop them from releasing the original in HD.

17. AHTB 06/09/2008 @ 9:12am

    GitS already has a (overprized) Japanese Blu-ray disc release with English subtitles. I hope that maybe Warner will release the 2.0 version for a reasonable price in other countries.

18. Gnolad 06/09/2008 @ 3:07pm

    Well it’s all about the money, isn’t it?! The filmmakers know that the fans will buy yet another version, so why not find another way to make a buck.. I bet we will see a 3D version as well in the not so distant future.

19. six string 06/09/2008 @ 5:31pm

    It won’t simply be another version, it will be six new vastly expensive limited edition sets suckers like me will be all over (own 6 of Gits and 4 of Innocence). 

    It would be interesting to see it, but I’m heavily leading towards the anti-messing-with-history crowd on this one.  Ghost in the Shell is perfect in every way as is.

20. venger 06/11/2008 @ 5:27am

    MikeOutWest says:
    “Perhaps this time they can trim back the many travelogue scenes which padded out the movie ("and now, an intermission while we take a trip around the bustling streets of neo-tokyo...")."

    Was i the only one who actually thought those parts were part of what made GitS so brilliant?

21. Ard Vijn 07/21/2008 @ 4:23am

    No you weren’t.
    
    Short and overcrammed with ideas as GitS is, that sequence in the middle (silent but for Kenji Kawai’s haunting score) first allowed me to catch some breath and then proceeded to take it away again.
    
    Movie magic.
    Ghost in the Shell almost burned me, it was so brilliant…

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