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Dreamworks Will Make Live Action Ghost In The Shell

What's next after Transformers? Steven Spielberg is moving on to more worldly properties. With the recent acquisition of rights to the Japanese manga "Ghost in the Shell," by DreamWorks is set to to make a 3-D Live-Action version of the cyberpunk crime thriller.


Spielberg is said to have taken a personal interest in binging the project to DreamWorks who beat out two other competing studios, Universal and Sony, for the rights. 'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg said. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."


Published in 1989, "Ghost in the Shell" was Created by Masamune Shirow. Written as a post-cyberpunk drama, the story follows Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations team that work for the Section 9 arm of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission. Ghost in the Shell documents the team on technology-related crime missions that test their best fighting abilities. The original Manga story has been adapted into several anime films, a television series, video games and other products.


Seaside Entertainment's have been tapped to produce with Avi Arad ("Spider-Man," "X-Men," "Fantastic Four," "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk"), Ari Arad and Steven Paul heading up the creative direction with Jamie Moss on board to do the writing.



Source: Anime News International


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