The Mamoru Oshii film obviously could not count on the footnotes commentary that Masamune Shirow used in the manga, and it went instead for a very defined “show, don’t tell” approach with scenes that go on for minutes without any significant dialogue. Plus, with Black Widow in the can, she may opt to do some more low-key indie work than commit to an action-packed Netflix series.īut again, she’s the one that they want to lead their live-action take on Ghost in the Shell and given that this intel comes to us from the same sources who told us Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart had cameos in Hobbs & Shaw, Bill Murray is returning for Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Disney is developing a live-action Robin Hood, we’ve no reason to doubt it.The original Ghost in the Shell movie places the audience in a dystopian world in which the characters’ alignments, origins, and motives can be hard to follow. The big question, though, is whether Scarlett Johansson wants to step back into this universe and inevitably reignite the controversy over her casting. So, maybe Netflix has concluded that live-action is the way to go after all. There are even frame-rate drops whenever you see a muzzle-flash on screen. It looks particularly rough, too, leading many to compare the visuals to a last-gen video game.

Sadly, however, the show hasn’t lived up to expectations, with fans rightly criticizing the choice of 3D over 2D animation.

This newcomer to the franchise, Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045, premiered on Netflix not too long ago and continues Major Kusanagi’s story, showing her joining a team of cybernetic mercenaries who defuse conflicts all around the world (often violently).

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