Now, I've seen Ghost in the Shell and anyone who has watched the film would know it's about the IDEAS not the spectacle that makes the film amazing.
Yes, the ideas that no common joe of the street would understand or would have difficulty understanding. You cant sell the film with the ideas since its not main stream, cyber punk has never been. Not only that but the philosophy of ghost in the shell, birth, death, humanity, AI evolution, cyberbrains, morality, and corruption all set in a futuristic setting again isnt a easy sell.
So does it need to cost 150 million?
Its probably going to cost way more than that, and yes, yes they need all that money to make it look good.
How about you scale it down, and focus on just making a good film just like Deadpool which cost about 50 million.
Than they wouldnt do the story justice. You cant scale down a film like this because it just wouldnt work. Deadpool was a success because they didnt need that much money to make it. It relied on its characters and simple story to get the point across. They didnt need to create a whole world out of nothing. You are comparing apples and oranges here, totally different.
Marketing?
You do know this is the anime that influenced the very popular Matrix film, so already people will be attracted to that connection.
You mean the 1999 film that many people have forgotten about. What are the producers going to put as the tag line? "The live action film that influenced the Matrix in someways but not like the Matrix at all." No they are going to need a pretty big marketing campaign. Why? Because no mater how much we might love Ghost its not popular in main stream. There is no way the production would be able to make a profit to just catering to the small percentage of fans.
Now the clue is in the title.
It's a JAPANESE anime-adaptation. Clue is in the title, folks. So you really think people would turn away seeing an Asian lead in a....oh my lawd...ASIAN-ANIME ADAPTATION?!
What are you talking about? How is the clue in the title? What is Japanese about the words ghost in the shell? Do you mean if they put the info "Based on the acclaimed Anime" underneath the title? Your common movie goer would probably turn away simply because they wouldnt recognize the leads or they might think its OMG subbed! God forbid people learn to read right.
Let's be real here guys. This is about Hollywood not having any balls to put out original films like they used to. So they take a popular property they can market, put in their blonde friend as the lead and hope that it brings them good money because of brand recognition.
Now this, we can agree upon. Hollywood is a machine. A money making machine. Thats its only goal, make tons of money for all the investors and producers and studios that put films together. They dont care about the fans, they dont care that a bunch of Anime nerds are going to pissed because they changed so much from the source. But than again that goes for almost any property that Hollywood gets there grubby little paws on. And we, as fans have two choices, go see the film for what it is, or dont see it. Simple as that. I love how everyone now a days are so entitled and feel like the world owes you everything, it dosent! Just cause you dont agree with something dosent mean its going to change. Speak with your money, you know the only language Hollywood understands.
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