Not related to the above project, but:
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PROJECT 2501 : HOMAGE TO GHOST IN THE SHELL on Vimeo
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PROJECT 2501 : HOMAGE TO GHOST IN THE SHELL on Vimeo
I don´t have much faith in the guy who made a fluff movie like Snow White and the Huntsman to capture the intricacies of character development and moral ambiguities that are central to GiS-
I always have doubts about americans making movies based on anime and manga. They should hire the writers of Stand Alone Complex and film in japan with funding from Dreamwave with the only americans in the film (unless the story calls for the US to be in it) is Batou. Sadly we're gonna get a badly cast movie full of shaky-cam and bad cgi with very little cyberpunk elements. Then again the new anime series looks horrible too.
I don't get this white washing, I know movies aren't made for the fans, but for the general audience, the average joe, who works from 9-5 and escapes from reality with a good movie from time to time. I'm no different from the rest of you guys. But what appealed GitS to many IS the different philosophical point of view about man, machine and soul. The impact of technology and integration into our everyday life. GitS has become sucessful for being different and not being comform to mainstream.
I don't care about Margot Robbie, she may be a good actress, but she's not what I image Motoko to be. I really really want to believe that Spielberg steps in, if he proclaims to be a big fan of GitS.
@Riceball: You really can't tell me, that a name like Motoko Kusanagi is a western name and would fit a caucasian woman? Or Togusa, Ishikawa?
But there's also the opposite direction, where white washing bombed big time. Avatar the last Airbender was ripped apart by fans, who expected a source material realization of their beloved series. As well as Dragonball .I can see the same happening for GitS and GitS has the same amount of fan base like Avatar.
Nobody can really tell me, that all asian actors won't work, like shown in the fan-film trailer of Akira, which is also in the Hollywood white-washing machine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1GO-93Nt3c