Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Ghost in the Shell
10/26/09 - DreamWorks is developing a new, 3-D live-action version of Ghost in the Shell, best known as the 1995 anime movie that was based on Masamune Shirow's manga franchise, according to Variety.  DreamWorks has tapped scribe Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Japanese manga property.  DreamWorks is making the futuristic police thriller as a 3D live-action film.  Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and originally brought the project to DreamWorks.  The manga, first published in 1989, was one of the first cyberpunk-ish comic works that melded the concepts of cyborgs, police procedural and dystopian futuristic urban environments and influenced not only the Matrix movies but also lots of other sci-fi books, comics, films and video games.

04/15/08 - DreamWorks has acquired rights to the Japanese manga Ghost in the Shell and plans to adapt the futuristic police thriller as a 3-D live-action feature film.  The 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.  Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and brought the project to the studio. Jamie Moss has been tapped to write the adaptation.

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