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NEWS: Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Film Unveils 1st Full 2-Minute Trailer

They captured the dark cyberpunk atmosphere pretty well from the looks of it. For me, it should be worth watching for that alone. From the Q&A Scarlett recently did, it sounds like the film is still at least trying to explore some of the themes from the original film. Regardless if the film is any good or not, it does sound like they're TRYING to make the best Hollywood representation of the manga/anime as possible. I think it may at least turn out like Speed Racer, where the Wachowskis were huge fans of the anime and the film looked great, even if the story was weak. With Dragonball Evolution, nobody behind-the-scenes really seemed to care about the project at all.

They captured the dark cyberpunk atmosphere pretty well from the looks of it. For me, it should be worth watching for that alone. From the Q&A Scarlett recently did, it sounds like the film is still at least trying to explore some of the themes from the original film. Regardless if the film is any good or not, it does sound like they're TRYING to make the best Hollywood representation of the manga/anime as possible. I think it may at least turn out like Speed Racer, where the Wachowskis were huge fans of the anime and the film looked great, even if the story was weak. With Dragonball Evolution, nobody behind-the-scenes really seemed to care about the project at all.

It looks like a lesbian cyborg version of a typical teenager's superhero movie

Looks like a typical Hollywood treatment: dumb it down low enough so that even a typical movie goer could understand the plot and the fact that Motoko is a cyborg without thinking. Besides they are being unfaithful with the whole point of GitS.

They speak in the trailer as if she suffered an accident and "died" and then was reconstructed into a cyborg (a la robocop) and so got "superpowers". It looks like a lesbian cyborg version of a typical teenager's superhero movie rather than GitS.

While the tone of the mangas and of the movies and of the series varied in each iteration here we just see the world and characters of GitS being used as raw material for a typical Hollywood teenager superhero action movie.

Jose Cruz wrote:

It looks like a lesbian cyborg version of a typical teenager's superhero movie

Right, it looks like Ghost in the Shell.

But the use of a flat, dirgy rock song suggests that those expecting something of distinction may stay clear of the box office.

Even from those very small teasers, the tone was still just right to make me think that it was still looking like a Ghost in the Shell movie, and this trailer has kept those feelings consistent.

Like, seriously, I don't think even the more hardcore fans can truly think this trailer is a bad first impression.

Of course people are still gonna toss around the whitewashing term loosely, even though I don't think this was an example of whitewashing, but just an unfortunate example of the reality of the film industry. The people who are angry, are angry at the wrong people and don't know how movies work.

A big production studio isn't going to cast a relatively unknown Asian actress on a project like this. ScarJo is literally the most profitable female actress on the planet at the moment, so the film makers having to settle on that because the studio willing to bank on her starpower, is probably one of the reasons this movie is even happening in the first place.

GITS is not a brand that outsells the people attached to it. In fact, the only brand that I can think of that DOES outsell anyone starring in it, is Star Wars. And they cast a white girl as their new lead so.

If anything, my concern was ScarJo's sometimes questionable acting ability. If you told me I couldn't cast an Asian and had to settle on casting a big name actress who'd still be fitting, I'd have personally picked Charlize Theron for the Major.

But, she doesn't look too bad so far. And hey, maybe her sometimes robotic acting is quite fitting for a robot when you think about it, right?

The production values in this trailer are much better than I expected. While it might stray from the tone of the original a bit, it does look like they're trying to capture the spirit of it, and are giving it a much better treatment than most could hope for. I'll definitely be watching this in theaters when it releases.

only having watched the first 2 films, I can still appreciate the fact that the creators of this film really tried making this film look and feel like it takes place in the ghost in the shell universe. Recreating scene's straight from the Original film and also adding visual cues that pay homage to original world in which it took place in, ascetic wise this looks to be a great treat for fans ( I can't wait to see it in IMAX 3D). I just hope they have a story which can match it's visuals, that's what really worry's me. But other than that I really look forward to watching this when it's release, i'm cautiously optimistic!

( I really hope they have some throw backs to Kenji Kawai ost from the original though *crosses fingers*)