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ScarJo takes lead role in GHOST IN THE SHELL
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fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
It's a good choice... but the whitewashing. :|
Because the world already has had its fair share of Caucasian leads.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
Banned
Well, she was in the best sci-fi movie of this year (Under the Skin) and the worst (Lucy). I'll watch anything she's in, but her involvement has no impact on my belief as to whether or not this will be any good.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
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I couldn't see them using the manga at all if they're targeting the US.
Which was just Akira in some ways.
Patrick Bateman
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It will only be good when they shoot the intro of the first movie 1:1 with here.
WrenchNinja
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Gross.
Saint Gregory
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It's going to be weird if this doesn't take place in Japan but I'm hopefully that Dreamworks won't mess it up.
The original film/anime is is one of my all time favorites and there's so many angles they could take with the sci-fi themes in the series.
The original film/anime is is one of my all time favorites and there's so many angles they could take with the sci-fi themes in the series.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Don't really care about the whitewashing, it's hollywood, but scarlett Johanssen? I wish they would have gotten someone with more an edge.
Roonie Mara
noomi Rapace
Would have been better imo.
Roonie Mara
noomi Rapace
Would have been better imo.
whatever77
Banned
She is actually perfect for this role. She is even better than JLaw since the Major is an older woman.
Only positive contribution of Lec Besson's Lucy to the world now that I think about it.
Not setting it in Japan would be IMO the most sensible choice if they go with a Caucasian lead. Just adapt the whole thing to america. Similar to something like the departed or the Japanese unforgiven remake.
pants
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(googles)
Discotheque
Banned
Scarjo taking those roles Jolie would have been in like 5-10 ago
Shouta
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That's actually how you could write ScarJo into the role. In the series, people use Cyber-bodies, modeled after whoever or whatever they like. So there isn't a reason why she can't be Motoko Kusanagi. She could just have a Caucasian cyber body in the film.
It's still a shame that they didn't bother casting an Asian actress for this because it'll likely be in Japan but still, it's still possible in universe for ScarJo to be the character.
Wiktor
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Yeah..but then the movie would have like 30 mln budget. You think GITS would work on a budget like that? I doubt it.
People love to ask for more inclusivity, but it's just noble, yet completely useless impulse when one ignores the reality in movie industry.
This is risky movie. They picked ScarJo not because she's white, but because she's one of the very very few true female stars. Bassicaly they could pick from ScarJo, Lawrence and maybe Kristin Stewart. Done. We've recently seen Denze and WIll Smith casted in roles that were white before. But no producer cared about that because they are stars. That's why they were picked.
What it ll boils to is that expecting producers to pick unknown unpopular actress to anchor a risky big budgeted movie is just plain unrealitic. You want more variety it needs to start at the bottom. Make room for those actors and actresses on TV and in lower budget movies. Because to become a lead in a movie without built in huge audience you need to be a star and just because somebody was born black or asian won't suddenly make this any less true.
The Smoking Bun
Banned
Actually why must Motoko be in the lead? Have ScarJo be a new recruit in Section 9 and through her we get introduced to the rest of the team? That is if you set it in Japan, or have S9 visit america and Scar's character acts as the American equivalent to Motoko (played by Rinko Kikuchi) who butt heads due to idealogical differences....
Or make it a complete American remake... no Japan, no Japanese names, no references... just BASED ON GITS at the beginning of the film...
This movie needed to be handled a by a big name director who the producer's would listen to and not something at the mercy of a SUPER STAR playing the lead
Or make it a complete American remake... no Japan, no Japanese names, no references... just BASED ON GITS at the beginning of the film...
This movie needed to be handled a by a big name director who the producer's would listen to and not something at the mercy of a SUPER STAR playing the lead
JadedWriter
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Is Kelly Hu too busy or something? Casting aside, which didn't even bother me that much they're supposedly getting the director of Snow White and the Huntsmen to do this, doesn't sound like he's good for this.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Scarlett has a very bubbly face, didn't like her for black widow either. it's like when they picked Charlize Theron for Aeon Flux instead of Famke or someone with a similar bone structure.
I've always been under the impression whenever any movie based on an anime/or manga is rumored over here, that the target audience is never the actual fans of the material.
Saint Gregory
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It would work but a lot of the international intrigue stuff would make a lot less sense. They could always cut all of that out and just focus on domestic terrorism though.
Why do people say shit like this? is it just to appear intellectually-superior or something? GitS is genuinely good science-fiction.
This is one of the few things that bums me out. I don't want vanishing bullets and guys that fall down dead. I want nudity and gore and some gnarly broken bones. I know Scarlett can play the role, but Hollyweird is going to ruin this with shitty CGI and unrealistic expectations at the box office.
Shouta
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Or have the major visit America and have her use a different body to go in undercover properly. As long as the Major is someone else, that'd be OK.
Wiktor
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Of course not. Anime is terribly niche, nobody will base target audience on it's fans. The audience for this is sf fans, ScarJo fans an people who just love expensive CG extravangazas.
whatever77
Banned
Why do you think certain actress has a wrong face. The original is just fucking black and white drawing of unrealistic proportion! Masamune Shirow couldn't draw a bubbly face if he wanted to!!
Now that I think about it...yes it was. Although it would be somewhat ironic if Lucy had more Asian actors than this anime adaptation. I'll still watch Ghost in the Shell though.
Uh...Marvel is run by Israeli army veterans with war experience (specifically Marvel's CEO Isaac Perlmutter), and Hollywood in general is pro-Israel. But that's another topic.
Someone told me there were lesbian sex scenes in the manga. I should investigate to find out if this is accurate.
Wiktor
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TV shows are propably more relevant today than they were when they were made. The whole Laughing Man plot only got more and more propable since then.
BlackLagoon
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I can see them looking at Stand Alone Complex for inspiration, at least for designs and visuals. But I expect there's a very high chance of them just taking the basic idea/composition of Section 9 and building their own plot and setting around it.
If an adaptation will simply not be funded unless whitewashed, I'd rather they not even bother and do something original instead, Or at least vaguely inspired.
She wasn't particularly great in PacRim. And I don't think her physique is imposing enough for Major. Maybe for pre-Section 9 Major like in Arise.
I'm more worried that they're going to totally butcher the original movie, assuming that's what they're adapting.
Laughing Man arc from the show might be a better choice.
Isn't her English rather limited? I don't recall her having many lines in pacific rim.Making the rounds on Twitter, and I agree.
True, the story would have to be adjusted in some significant ways, but that way the live action version might also get a bit more of an own identity and wouldn't just be a copy of the anime
But she's Asian.
Batou was Caucasian for sure, but Makoto is definitely suppose to be Japanese.
The Smoking Bun
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Sure, why not. Save that for an epic twist, Motoko or Marcie gets blown up and then we see her again, picking up her partially burned head and she just smirks, "You never get used to it."
Femmeworth
Banned
I could see them adapting and expanding on a story from Stand Alone Complex if the people behind it weren't creatively bankrupt. (Not that I think all that highly of the writing in Stand Alone Complex.)
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