05-15-2016, 07:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2016, 07:29 PM by SamuraiGaiden.)
Just to play Devil's Advocate, Lucy was a stupid premise based on a medical claim debunked a century ago, so I hesitate to count it against the GitS movie. What's next a movie about a kid who develops superpowers because he got a measles vaccination?
Everybody talks about the body swapping claim...I think that's a faulty argument. GitS's story is important the Japanese setting. What's the Major going to be now...a CIA operative, working to protect the president? Congrats you just remade Olympus Falling/White House Down with a female lead.
Coming from the perspective of a professional writer, the idea is poor story-building. I know the industry never would have greenlit the movie with someone like...lets go ahead and use Kikuchi Rinko as the top non-ScarJo choice. In American you just can't get someone to throw money at a non-whitewashed movie, because all the people with the money are stupid and hide behind a bunch of racist stat reports.
So you get Scarlett Johannsen on board...congrats, you can make her the star, give her top billing, whatever it takes to get the movie to work. But you cast Rinko as the Major (or whoever would do well in the role) and ScarJo is the American Ambassador on an important trip to Japan that Section 9 is tasked with protecting. Or ScarJo is the CIA operative that Section 9 has to bring along for the ride who acts as an adjutant to the team on a joint U.S.-Japan operation. You could even set it in the U.S. with Section 9 being sent to the U.S. to help in the joint Japan-U.S. operation, or even to somewhere in Europe/Africa/Elsehwere in Asia/South American, etc.
It creates a nice base to springboard off from and then you can make more Section 9-centric stuff, in Japan, to create a franchise.
If you really want to use the body-swapping defense, then ScarJo is the American operative who works along with Section 9 and she and the Major switch bodies or something.
As it stands right now, they are basically re-creating a Mission Impossible movie with a pseudo-anime setting, not a GitS movie.
Edit: Although I will disagree with Psycho...if they could make it interesting, I'd actually like a Black Widow movie. Just not in my GitS.
Everybody talks about the body swapping claim...I think that's a faulty argument. GitS's story is important the Japanese setting. What's the Major going to be now...a CIA operative, working to protect the president? Congrats you just remade Olympus Falling/White House Down with a female lead.
Coming from the perspective of a professional writer, the idea is poor story-building. I know the industry never would have greenlit the movie with someone like...lets go ahead and use Kikuchi Rinko as the top non-ScarJo choice. In American you just can't get someone to throw money at a non-whitewashed movie, because all the people with the money are stupid and hide behind a bunch of racist stat reports.
So you get Scarlett Johannsen on board...congrats, you can make her the star, give her top billing, whatever it takes to get the movie to work. But you cast Rinko as the Major (or whoever would do well in the role) and ScarJo is the American Ambassador on an important trip to Japan that Section 9 is tasked with protecting. Or ScarJo is the CIA operative that Section 9 has to bring along for the ride who acts as an adjutant to the team on a joint U.S.-Japan operation. You could even set it in the U.S. with Section 9 being sent to the U.S. to help in the joint Japan-U.S. operation, or even to somewhere in Europe/Africa/Elsehwere in Asia/South American, etc.
It creates a nice base to springboard off from and then you can make more Section 9-centric stuff, in Japan, to create a franchise.
If you really want to use the body-swapping defense, then ScarJo is the American operative who works along with Section 9 and she and the Major switch bodies or something.
As it stands right now, they are basically re-creating a Mission Impossible movie with a pseudo-anime setting, not a GitS movie.
Edit: Although I will disagree with Psycho...if they could make it interesting, I'd actually like a Black Widow movie. Just not in my GitS.