A 3-D Shell in Your Future
Posted by bob in Films, News on April 15th, 2008
The incredibly popular Japanese Manga series Ghost in the Shell has been optioned by DreamWorks with an eye towards turning the sumptuous visuals in a 3-D live-action feature. Jamie Moss (Street Kings) has been hired to write the screenplay which will be overseen by producers Avi Arad (Spider-Man), Ari Arad and Steven Paul. 
The comic series was created by Masamune Shirow in 1989 and has gone on to spawn a cottage industry with print, anime, and video game adaptations and sequels. The high-tech world depicted involves a covert operations team working for the Japanese National Public Safety Commission.
Story follows the exploits of a member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology-related crime.
“Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite stories,” Steven Spielberg told the press. “It’s a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks.” The studio previously released Ghosts in the Shell 2: Innocence in 2004.
