Scarlett Johansson to Headline ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Live-Action Movie

cool fact: i'm the same age as scarlett...

this thread just reminded me that i bought the manga but haven't read it yet.

  On 8/24/2016 at 2:45 AM, yek said:

this thread just reminded me that i bought the manga but haven't read it yet.

jealous, which i was in this position 

  On 8/23/2016 at 2:29 PM, caze said:

I doubt very much that Scarlet Johansson will be the worst thing about this movie.

agree w/that entirely. 

The only woman I ever went out of my way to collect beautiful pictures of.  They are on a hd somewhere.

Holy shit, doodz. So I sometimes do freelance brand identity work here in Tokyo, and a studio connection I have forwarded some pre-release specs for me to look over (in the main office that deals with a certain Japanese IP that sorted the international licensing). Yeah, you fucking guessed it. This thread. So the art department got some stills from the film to work on mockups for the Japanese release poster, which I can't share due to NDA. However, due to a loophole in my contract as creative director I CAN share the official US/Europe film title, which is gonna be... (brace yourself): The Ghost In The Sheru. .....SHERU!

The reasoning was- apparently- wanting to make the "shell" concept more Japanese, by calling it "sherus", which they've written as being mythological alien robots from Edo period Japan. It seems they've replaced concepts like "What is consciousness?" and "Are humans already melded with tech?" to: The Japanese robot alien sherus are hackers, who knew how to use computers in Edo period Japan due to being psychic. It also seems like they're trying to pull a twist ending, where only at the finale we find out that Kusanagi is sheru, THEN they have the montage of her creation. Also: tachikoma are not CGI; but rather a form of stop motion animation!-- they are Danny DeVito in a blue unitard with blue face paint on all fours, waddling around yelling CHING CHONG CHING.

This film is going to be horrible. Fuck Hollywood garbage.

  On 8/24/2016 at 2:45 AM, yek said:

cool fact: i'm the same age as scarlett...

 

this thread just reminded me that i bought the manga but haven't read it yet.

Try reading Man Machine Interface, holy crap.

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yeh i'm sure hollywood are going to make hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars with a 3rd season of an anime no one is going to watch.

lol wtf, I wasn't talking about hollywood...

And lots of people would watch it! It was a pretty popular anime. I hope it's rebooted eventually. The only reason I say third season is because I want more in that vein. Arise just isn't the same.

oh for sure!^ 

i guess my post was a bit too ironic and sarcastic and bitter .. my apologies :^)

i guess what i'm getting at is ... this is a movie that //

a. will cost lots of money, have lots of cgi action scenes, and hopefully have a reeeally cool trailer

b. is directed by a complete nobody Rupert Sanders .. who is only known for directing the 2012 Snow White and the Huntsman film (there was a 2012 Snow White and the Huntsman film ???) 

c. stars hollywoods most currently sexiest and coolest actress ever, Scarlett Johansson in lead role

it has nothing to do with being a good ghost in the shell movie, and everything to do with being a product that make lots and lots of money in return. 

it's entirely doomed to be a steaming pile of crap. 

the 'they' is 100% just hollywood in this instance. ....

She probly won't be the sexy Motoko, but at least give us the opening scene where she comes out of the liquid metal bath.

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it has nothing to do with being a good ghost in the shell movie, and everything to do with being a product that make lots and lots of money in return. 

it's entirely doomed to be a steaming pile of crap. 

Yeah, it's sad really. So many things pointing toward the crap pile... I will be (pleasantly) surprised if it's any good. The biggest issue is that the director has only made one movie (and it was bad according to metacritic/rotten tomatoes.) Hopefully it was just a fluke.

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She probly won't be the sexy Motoko, but at least give us the opening scene where she comes out of the liquid metal bath. 

You know that it's going to be butchered in some way. After seeing it I'll have to cleanse myself by watching the original scene 10 times.

re: ghost in the shell movie being boring

i keep teling you guys it's BRIAN ENO MAKES AN ANIME

remember this?

what a great concept for a music video... let's just rip some scenes from that anime... it was a fucking number one hit

That's what is called an 'animated music video' or 'amv', an ancient relic of early youtube. It has been more recently replaced by let's plays and let's plays replaced by drama channels.

teehee

Hayao Miyazaki did this amazing animated music video in 1995, but they're a big pain in the ass about copyright, so I can only find stills for it:

https://youtu.be/pVAFbsLhj10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67zZlwHCCA

You've triggered me by missssspelling Hayao Miyazaki's name!

And of course he did an amazing! He always does an amazing! 

I am soooo triggered at the moment.

Soon I'm just going to be sad. Sad that someone on the internet committed such an atrocious typo.

Time to generalize: What is the world coming to?

and while we're off topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UopjsmEfnwM

What the hell is that? Is there more? I want more.

it all boils down to /təˈmeɪtoʊ/ : /təˈmɑːtoʊ/

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What the hell is that? Is there more? I want more. 

It's a french anime short by a student animator which was a 'love letter' to Hiyoyo Miyazaki. (he's the old man at the end with the epic expression, epic beard, epic glasses, etc.) Not to mention it's in the style of a Himalaya Miyazaki film.

I wanna whole movie in this style. it's drop dead gorgeous. I've never seen anything quite like it. The student animator/director has a bright future.

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it all boils down to /təˈmeɪtoʊ/ : /təˈmɑːtoʊ/

maybe ur rite. mayb we shud embrise Ms. Pelling

  On 8/24/2016 at 11:03 AM, Brisbot said:

That's what is called an 'animated music video' or 'amv', an ancient relic of early youtube. It has been more recently replaced by let's plays and let's plays replaced by drama channels.

teehee

no no, this was playing on MTV and other music tv stations... way before youtube

  On 8/24/2016 at 12:40 PM, Brisbot said:

 

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Hiyoyo Miyazaki.

 

 

 

 

 

Himalaya Miyazaki film.

 

drop dead

 

 

bright future.

 

 

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boils down

embrise

 

 

 

 

Photos of entire cast have leaked

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no no, this was playing on MTV and other music tv stations... way before youtube 

nobody needs to know that

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drop dead

  On 8/23/2016 at 7:02 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 8/22/2016 at 8:17 PM, iococoi said:

How's Alita: Battle Angel coming along? ...regarding live-action manga, i do like those Gantz thingies..

Cameron is so goddamned busy with trying to make Avatar into Star Wars I doubt this will ever see the light of day.

 

Good thing too - that title stinks of 90's "americanized" anime (anime created to appeal to a Western audience).

 

July 2018? - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/christoph-waltz-talks-star-james-922625

  On 8/24/2016 at 2:59 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 8/23/2016 at 2:29 PM, caze said:

I doubt very much that Scarlet Johansson will be the worst thing about this movie.

 

agree w/that entirely. 

 

Pretty sure ScarJo's ass in this outfit will be the best thing about the movie.