I was enthusiastic when they announced a “Ghost in the Shell” live-action movie, but now, I’m not so sure. Is there even any real reason to remake Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 cyberpunk masterpiece “Ghost in the Shell”? It was perfect. Then you add in the constraints of live-action, and I don’t know, it seems like a lot of effort just to eff up something good. In any case, Dreamworks still seems intent on making a 3D live-action version of “Ghost in the Shell”.
To that end, the studio has brought onboard a new writer in Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the manga into a live-action movie. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because Kalogridis is also the writer on James Cameron’s “Battle Angel” movie.
In the original manga and anime, a female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
