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NEWS: Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Script Draft in Few Weeks

Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new rule that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”, according to DeadlineHollywood. Apparently, Robinov won’t even look at a script with a female lead.

the anime series was very episodic with different villains or events every 2 or 3 episodes. the story is told from the major's perspective the most, but plenty of side characters share most of the screen time, so the sense that the story was heavily centered around a female character just wasn't much in the original series.. or at least in the anime. if they're going to adapt the manga of course they would take a look at the anime as well since the platform is simply closer to motion pictures than plain drawings. theoretically it's possible to do an alternative retelling of events style often seen in animes--from a different character's perspective, and the studio may get their wish to put a male as the main lead. but that would indeed require real talented writing on their part to retell the whole story from another character's perspective and still manage to deliver the same level of satisfaction in all regards. do they have the talent to pull it off, that's the real question.

jtstellar wrote:

the anime series was very episodic with different villains or events every 2 or 3 episodes. the story is told from the major's perspective the most, but plenty of side characters share most of the screen time, so the sense that the story was heavily centered around a female character just wasn't much in the original series.. or at least in the anime. if they're going to adapt the manga of course they would take a look at the anime as well since the platform is simply closer to motion pictures than plain drawings. theoretically it's possible to do an alternative retelling of events style often seen in animes--from a different character's perspective, and the studio may get their wish to put a male as the main lead. but that would indeed require real talented writing on their part to retell the whole story from another character's perspective and still manage to deliver the same level of satisfaction in all regards. do they have the talent to pull it off, that's the real question.

The first manga was centered around the Major as the main character.

The second manga was split between focusing on the Major and another female character.

The first movie was centered on the Major.

The second movie was centered on Batou and Togusa, with the Major appearing towards the end.

The two series focused on all of the characters of Section 9, though to somewhat varying degrees, but the Major was clearly the leader of the group, not counting Aramaki, and a got a good deal of screen time.

The movie based on the series split the focus between the Major and Batou and Togusa.

Waterworld was one of the biggest flops ever, does that mean no more movies should be made set in the ocean or starring Kevin Costner?

Considering the provocative costumes that the Major wears, I'm surprised that they're skeptical of bringing in a male audience.

because MEM IS Motoko.

But she's a smart woman. The vast majority of males out there would just feel threatened, boobies or no.

Er, why wouldn't the movie have a female lead? Motoko Kusanagi was a female the last time I checked.

If done right, this will be good. I'm also for a new face for Motoko's role, preferably a Japanese woman with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn's voice dubbed over because MEM IS Motoko.

HellKorn wrote:

Considering the provocative costumes that the Major wears, I'm surprised that they're skeptical of bringing in a male audience.

But she's a smart woman. The vast majority of males out there would just feel threatened, boobies or no.