I’m Somewhat Excited About A 3D Ghost in the Shell Film

April 15, 2008 in News by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

Like many people, I am usually skeptical about live action film adaptations of anime and comic books so when I read that DreamWorks got the rights to make a “3-D live-action feature” based on Ghost in the Shell [via ANN], my worried geek alarm went off. The notion that the relatively unknown Jamie Moss was chosen to script the film isn’t reassuring.

But this will apparently be one of those kick-ass, fancy movies that are in crisp 3-D and will not require audiences to wear cheap red-and-blue cardboard glasses to enjoy them. Steven Spielberg, who called the GitS franchise one of his “favorite stories”, and fellow blockbuster director James Cameron (director of the summer 2009 Battle Angel) have both been working toward equipping movie theaters with special 3D projectors to truly take movie-viewing into the 21th century.

DreamWorks production chief Adam Goodman said that GitS “epitomizes 3-D live-action motion picture possibilities” so that gives me some confidence that they really want to do this right. There is still no planned release date nor a director attached to the project as this has just been announced but I really wish that this gets off the ground and is cast, written, and directed well. It at least seems to be on a better track than the supposedly “still in production” Weta-ADV Evangelion project.