Comments on: DreamWorks to make Ghost in the Shell live action movie

By: Lord Cataplanga

Lord Cataplanga — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:39:33 +0000

Besides, in Ghost in the Shell the USA is divided into three countries: the American Empire, the Russo-American Alliance, and the United States of America.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:50:17 +0000

The culture plays a huge part of it though. I’ve never seen a movie adaptation that has shifted between continents and cultures as diverse as Japan and the USA and been successful.

By: William

William — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:49:06 +0000

I don’t think the fact that it’s set in Japan is particularly important to the series as a whole. Really, technology makes perceived distance decrease, so I would think that geographic location would play relatively little role in effecting how something like that plays out, from our perspective as viewers.
It could easily be in America where section 9 is trying to stop some plot to do something bad to the whole world or something. It’d be interesting seeings a series where they train a new section 9 that works for a different goverment, or something like that. Sort of like… the second movie? I don’t know, I can’t keep the movies straight.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:52:07 +0000

And before anyone else points out my mistake, Ghost in the Shell doesn’t take place in Tokyo. It’s set in a large fictional Japanese port city. Anyway, the point I was making is that the setting shouldn’t be changed from Japan to elsewhere.