Live-Action GHOST IN THE SHELL Lands Writer

Coolb but i think kate beckinsale would do a better job.... First

@ComicsBornAndBred
Eh? They whitewashed Edge of Tomorrow AKA All You Need Is Kill, and look how that turned out.

Too bad...

People still complaining about Hollywood casting white people?

@BlackStar25 true true but Ghost In the Shell is a long running Manga and series that's distinguished by its Japanese culture and characters. The city of Tokyo, is like a character. All You Need Is Kill was a popular Manga but the Japanese aspects weren't significant. Also, it wasn't as beloved and well known as GITS. The alien and the time travel aspects were the strong points. While Ghost in the shells' technology and cyberpunk centered premise is the core of the show, the Far East ideology is just as strong. Asian actors and culture deserve a time to shine in their own creation. DreamWorks could be using this film to help provide opportunities for Asian-American actors in a market with few opportunities for them to shine. Patterns of Asian erasure are waaaaay too prevalent. By casting a white American actress, this film is whitewashing a character who is clearly meant to be Asian in a story that takes place in Japan and is populated by Japanese characters. This not only disrespects the original source but perpetuates Hollywood's racist habit of ignoring people of color in order to promote white movie stars.

If Scarlett Johansson wasn't a part of the film I'd be more excited. It's not because she's white but because her acting is about as flat and wooden as Gusto's wife.

People have an issue with Scarlet....

You do realize this film is directed but the guy who directed Snow White and the Huntsman who boned Kristen Stewart while they were filming and is being produced by AVI. [frick]ING. ARAD.

This movie was doomed to fail before Scarlet joined. In fact Scarlet's the best thing going for this film.

@ComicsBornAndBred @Nomis

Just because it is done by an japanse company does not mean that and adaption of it needs to be a japanese cast. It all depends on the timeperiod, place it take's place in and so forth.

Naruto adaption - Japanse cast needed
All you need is kill (Which is Edge of Tomorrow is based on) - More neutral.
Fullmetal Alchemeist Brotherhood - Should have a european cast if ever made
Attack on Titans - A mixture since it is sett in a european setting with diffrent kinds of people.

The Anime was great, They should hire Ridley Scott or Spielberg to direct this one.

@Nomis

Respect the source material? Avi Arad is producing this film. Guy who produced TASM films.

There will be no respect shown lol.

Can you white wash a robot? I think Scarlet will do fine. Not confident about the rest of it though.

TRIGUN LIVE ACTION PLEASE!

As a huge GITS fan, I want this to fail.

@KidGoku

Why? Would it not be better if it is a solid adaption that goes well???

@LEVITIKUZ

Iron Man
Blade
Blade II
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Incredible Hulk
X2

Something all those films have in common...

Avi Arad produced them all.

@MercwithMouth

Avi left Marvel Studios in 06. Doubt he had that much input on TIH and Iron Man.

Avi let Raimi pretty much do what he wanted in SM1 and SM2. In SM3 he forced Raimi to use Venom.

Blade 1 was average and Blade 2 was good because of del Toro and Mike Mignola.

X-Men films? Pass.

Avi is [frick]ing cancer to everything he gets a say in. He's nothing but a toy guy who somehow got to be in the movie biz.