Black-Wind
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Pretty much this.
ScarJo takes lead role in GHOST IN THE SHELL
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Pretty much this.
Nostremitus
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I'm ok with ScarJo on this...
It will be a western film make by westerners for western audiences. It makes perfect sense that they cast a westerner with enough screen presence to carry a movie and enough star power to get seats filled in theaters. At least they didn't cast Sam Worthington as the main character.
It will be a western film make by westerners for western audiences. It makes perfect sense that they cast a westerner with enough screen presence to carry a movie and enough star power to get seats filled in theaters. At least they didn't cast Sam Worthington as the main character.
Ether_Snake
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Like I said before, Batou should have the leading role. Keep Motoko distant, otherwise it wouldn't work. Going with Scarjo is dumb.
No thanks. Makoto is the namesake, more machine than person, unsure where the line between the really begins and ends. Batou is a good foil and anchor but to make him the lead would be worse than having Batman: The Movie and have it centered around Alfred. He simply is not as interesting.
ScarJo isn't a terrible actress but it really depends on the script either way.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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What are you even talking about??? Motoko is a much better character and the LEADER of Section 9 (ignoring Aramaki). You can't have her playing a secondary role.
GITS is such a fantastic movie. Is the original movie available on bluray? Not that 2.0 abomination.
no u
I have a feeling when the movie comes out we might think the good would have been the movie not happening.
QUOTE=BeatResetsTheWorld;146117368]What are you even talking about??? Motoko is a much better character and the LEADER of Section 9 (ignoring Aramaki). You can't have her playing a secondary role.[/QUOTE]
It actually did work in Ghost in the Shell 2. Batou can carry a movie. But, I doubt you'd see this in a Live Action movie. Maybe a sequel.
twinturbo2
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Okay, let me head this one off at the pass. I can't name a film she was in that was a big-budget blockbuster. And before anyone plays the Pacific Rim card, that was an ensemble cast and the film nearly bombed anyways (China saved that film's ass after it got beat by Grown Ups 2 on opening weekend.)
Plus, isn't she toxic in the Japanese film industry?
ComputerMKII
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BumblebeeCody
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Well...that sucks (and so did Lucy).
CosmicGroinPull
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I don't hate this news, but definitely not thrilled.
Channing Tatum IS Kaneda
Dark Ninja
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Better keep the nude scenes, can't wait for the stealth camo.
Mashin Haters
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she can pull it off. All that matters is the script and cinematography. If its bullshit hollywood i will be upset. Hope its not like robocop remake or total recall.
firehawk12
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Are they still going to name her Montana Kristofferson or whatever? lol
I don't give a fuck. I'd prefer her over ScarJo
Ether_Snake
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Enjoy your Hollywoodized Montana then. The only way to keep Motoko true to her character is to not have her as the lead. She's supposed to be mysterious, that works if the audience relates to Batou, not her. They'll completely change her character for the movie, there's no way she'll be her usual emotionless character, but they could have done that with Batou as the lead. GitS is not about Mokoto being the "leader" of Section 9. She isn't really even a leader, she's more like a weapon. They rely on her due to her mechanical abilities, not her character. That alone is a rather important point, and would also be ruined by making her the lead.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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But Innocence was FAR inferior to the first movie, and it would also be a terrible way to introduce people to the series. I mean, that movie was basically just Batou and Togusa, right? I mean, it only works when the Major and the rest of section 9 aren't really around, otherwise it wouldn't make sense for her to be playing a secondary character
the black pearl
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I feel pretty indifferent. She was decent in WS and Avengers, and she's been generally better in movies recently than she was in the 2000s. She's not really Motoko to be...but she's shown she can pull of a badass action counter terrorist so there's that.
plasmawave
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This is supposed to be an american take on the material though
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Sure it makes plenty of sense. Why do you assume that her not being the lead mean she's not there all the time? Who is the lead in Se7en?
plasmawave
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There are no asians in Murica.
If we had asian people it would be pretty embarrassing if we cast a white person for an asian character.
Delta Assault
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Sure there are.
*points at John Cho*
*doesnt see anyone else*
*continues to point at John Cho*
whatever77
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There was also asian chick with a blonde wig in Cloud Atlas.
I still like the movie though.
Why should the race of the Major matter so much if it's set in America. To turn the black James Bond argument around, what aspect of the major is defined by her race?
firehawk12
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Why even adapt Ghost in the Shell? Why not just make some generic cyberpunk thing at that point?
CadetMahoney
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This will be focus tested for 12 years olds with Guardians of the Galaxy / TMNT grade jokes and depth right.
I guess because Hollywood likes remakes. Also just changing the setting of the movie is still far from turning it into generic cyberpunk.
Edge of Tomorrow also changed the race of the character and locations but the Manga origins are still clearly there
ThoseDeafMutes
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The entire cast is Asian in the source material, it's set in a fictional city modelled on Hong Kong but with Japanese influences. There's a very high probability (99.9999999999999%) that this film will be set in the United States, not in Asia, since it's a Hollywood film. There is no direct 1:1 guide on how to change a cast of Japanese people into a cast of American people, but we would generally agree that if you did a remake of a foreign film which transposes the setting, you aren't required to make all of the actors the same ethnicity as the actors in the original film unless it's somehow important to the story.
I guess if you wanted to be totally authentic you'd just set it in Japan and have a full cast of Japanese actors. But nobody really expected anything like that to come out of an American adaptation.
whatever77
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That argument is just silly. Why adapt Transformer to the big screen? It's not 100% the same as the original.
firehawk12
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But who cares about Ghost in the Shell at this point? Maybe if this was the late 90s, but now the franchise is basically irrelevant in American culture.
They could just call the movie Cyber Cops or something and do just as well, without annoying the one fanbase that would actually care about GitS and without having to pay any licensing fees either.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Mobile Armoured Riot Police!
That's just the character designer's art style.
With that logic every DC and Marvel character drawn by Jim Lee is Asian in appearance.
plasmawave
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