Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Writer Discusses Film

The websites MoviesOnline.ca and ScreenRant.com have both posted
interviews with Laeta Kalogridis, the current screenwriter for Dreamworks
and Steven Spielberg's planned live-action adaptation of Masamune
Shirow's Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga. Kalogridis was once
also hired by James Cameron to script his planned adaptation of
Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga. She is also an
executive producer and screenwriter on Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
and an executive producer on Cameron's Avatar.

In the interviews, Kalogridis reiterated that the script for the live-action
Ghost in the Shell will be based on Shirow's original manga and not
Production I.G and Mamoru Oshii's animated movie adaptation.
Like the manga, Kalogridis said the upcoming movie will have "a lot of action … lots of action."

However, as a nod to Oshii's anime film adaptations, Kalogridis also added,
"there's still going to be a lot of atmosphere – [The movie] is about
vast possibilities – all of this technology, the Internet –
it's about the limitless possibilities of this technology."

Kalogridis also commented on a possible trend of more live-action
adaptations of anime and manga in Hollywood, saying "I think anime
and manga are slowly becoming a big part of our mythos,
I think yes, they're sort of a natural fit for films."

The American arm of the manga's original Japanese publisher Kodansha
is reprinting the manga after Dark Horse Comics had the license.
Kodansha also launched two new manga series based on the
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex television anime series in December .


Source : ANN